Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13301-20170502181922/@comment-1824272-20170508181236

I have to admit, I'm relatively new to this scene compared to you guys. I only became a local admin a couple of years ago, so I never got exposed to that "Wikia is ruled by the communities" mindset. The way I've seen it, Wikia always had the final say, and now that it's Fandom, they still have the final say.

However, at the same time, I've never felt that the relationship was "Fandom rules the communities", so I'm not about to tell you that's where we're at, either. Basically, I've seen two main types of communities:


 * The communities who directly work with Fandom to help improve both Fandom (ad revenue, visitor numbers) and the communities (PIs? Let's make them look and work as best as possible. Discussions? Send them feedback on how to make them better because they're still in beta. New headers? Here's what we think would work better.)
 * The communities who attack Fandom and put devil horns on anyone who works for Fandom, who want to keep everything on their wikis the same way it's been for a decade, using old web standards that no longer work and that have never worked on mobile, refusing any help to fix anything that's broken.

Fandom is a landlord. Communities, and us admins, are their tenants, and we're staying here for free. Is it so unreasonable for Fandom to then set specific rules on their communities?

WikiDex has basically been acting like this:


 * Fandom (landlord): "Your roof is caved in. We're sending guys to fix it."
 * WikiDex (tenant): "It's a skylight now. We like it like that."
 * Fandom: "It's going to rain in the house, and ruin everything. It's dangerous if you leave it!"
 * WikiDex: "We want you to fix the floor instead. We want hardwood instead of carpet."
 * Fandom: "But hardwood would get ruined by the next rain!"
 * WikiDex: "Yeah, but we like our skylight and we want hardwood floors."
 * Fandom: "Look, we're sending the guys this afternoon to fix the roof. And since we're putting a new roof, if you want new ceiling fixtures or a different color or new wires in the ceiling ---"
 * WikiDex: "You'd better not fix that roof! We won't let them in! Respect our choices!"
 * Fandom: "We own the property. We can't not fix it."
 * WikiDex: "Fine. We'll just move elsewhere, then."
 * Fandom: "Alright, move elsewhere. We still have to fix the roof."
 * WikiDex: "We will attack any repairman you send. We're chaining ourselves to the doors."
 * Fandom: "If you attack the repair guys, you will be evicted and the police will come."
 * WikiDex: "Stop harassing us!"

What the hell else is Fandom supposed to do here? You're claiming Fandom is pulling "skulduggery & hypocrisy" here, but I see Ciencia doing it instead of Fandom.