Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1474707-20140611200801/@comment-5448890-20140612004835

452 wrote: Master Ceadeus 27 wrote: the fact that it encourages people who have been here for years to stop visiting often is of no concern to Wikia This is the most unfortunate part. From a business perspective, we're all expendable numbers.

When I asked whether people who view videos go on to become editors, the only answers I received were about how long people "view the wiki". Apparently people who view videos stay on the site longer and view more pages. (Translation: "they view more ads".)

If more people stick around longer, yes, there are more potential editors, but Wikia Staff are not measuring the "view videos -> become editors" relationship, or at least, they refuse to answer questions about it.

Yep. Like I said, there seem to be a few staff that really do care about the editing relationship, but they're paid to get users to see ads. So the typical formula is:

> what makes people go to a site > pretty pictures, simple navigation, lots of moving pictures > encourage every wiki to have a pretty picture as logo, background, content, etc. > make a sideboard with a ridiculous amount of "high quality, licensed" videos > encourage people to watch them > they watch them > they stay on the site for at least the duration of the video > they view many ads during this time > much money > $$$

But I do agree with COD4. Wikia's awesome, I wouldn't leave it for the world, and as long as you disregard the blatant amount of ads, business-oriented movements, and things like this, it works perfectly for a fun and informative wiki host.