Forum:Wikia demotes admins who jump ship

Less than 24 hours after a big part of the Transformers Wiki community moved to a new server, Wikia staff demoted the 5 active admins. The site is now being administrated by a Wikia helper. --◄mendel► 09:00, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * They changed to another wiki and got their sysop rights there. If they do not intend to stay as a part of the wikia wiki, why should they remain sysops there? 16:20, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Why shouldn't they? One sysop who has not been demoted has not been seen on that wiki since 2005. Some of the demoted admins have expressed clearly that they won't be staying, others not so clearly. Anyway, I'd have expected to keep the admins until it is either clear that they won't be coming back, or until new admins have been chosen by the remaining community. They were still doing some housekeeping for moving users who wanted their userpages deleted etc.
 * The most interesting lesson of this is that wikia is not just another webhost. I have an old webspace on freecities, and nobody's touched it even after I left. (Freecities is/was ad-financed, just as wikia is). When I move a site from one host to another, I am able to leave a redirect up for as long as I want. Wikia's policies are obviously substantially different: they took partial control of the site even before the move, changing the main page against the community's wishes, and they are very quick to assert this control now. I found this unexpected. I would also not have expected that wikia can "fire" you even if you did nothing wrong, but did something they apparently disliked (i.e., get active on a competing wiki). If they actually talked this over with the admins, I must have missed it. --◄mendel► 19:08, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, we tried to communicate with the admins, both on wiki and via email. But Transformers is a difficult and complex situation, and one that I don't think it will be helpful to hash over again here.
 * And on "wikia is not just another webhost"... yay! I very much hope not! We try to do a lot more for communities than just throw up a wiki and ignore it :) -- sannse (talk) 21:29, 16 September 2008 (UTC)