Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39616879-20190528083240/@comment-5218827-20190608184338

Forbym wrote: IMHO the existence of the PewDiePie wiki is the single best reason to boycott FANDOM. There are many more reasons than that, IMHO. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Have a look at this monster lurking on the iCarly Wiki: https://icarly.fandom.com/wiki/Seddie That's 19,000 words covering something which is never explicitly featured on the show, and is mostly teenagers looking between the lines for something that isn't there. Plus there's 192,000 comments and counting, which is more or less ten comments for every single word on the article.

But at least their theories are grounded in something observable; fanon wikis are the massive bandwidth drainers from my perspective. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of poorly-written fanfics written by children, for children, in a formal manner as if to make them seem real. Tons of fanfiction sites out there, yet they choose here. Honestly, there should be a "Wikipedia Rule" or something to that effect, wherein a Wiki hosted on Fandom must have a Wikipedia article. Some things might fall through the cracks, granted, but it would massively curtail the gigabytes of truly useless information stored on here. Perhaps the database won't crash as often.