User blog comment:Icedragon64/Fan, Fan, Fan - Go Away!/@comment-8-20160309223415/@comment-6548012-20160310111214

I imagine he is looking at it from a more taxonomical perspective&mdash;maybe he doesn't want to be associated or recognized as a fanatic, and, for good reasons, it's a very pejorative term which, today, is percieved by two different schools, so by putting the focus on Fandom, Wikia is being more “precise” about its “clientèle,” in the way in which, well, the vocabulary used only is convenient to a certain community, so I think that's what he is trying to say, that he would have preferred Wikia to be more general.

So yeah, as you said it, it's all just semantics, and his reaction may not be the most appropriate to approaching them, but there are still things to get out of that. I'd be pretty glad if blog posts sharing thoughts on those features would happen more often, the feedback is always good.