User blog comment:ForestFairy/How to Take the Fun Out of Trolling/@comment-70.198.139.60-20150717182605/@comment-29313037-20150718220819

Abuse is not a rare occurrence - just because false positives are drowned out, does not mean they are not a rather growing issue amongst wikis.

The problem, in my opinion, is when a wiki develops a hierarchy in-order to establish rule. Starts off small, and should the wiki become more popular and grow, the bureaucracy will begin to grow, too.

And as the bureaucracy grows, the wiki will begin attracting... bureaucrats -legasp-! Then the issues start, where the leadership gets around to bending the rules to suit their personal agendas, and use public opinion in-order to get away with murder.

This is not a rare occurrence - I have been active on Wikia since 2005, and a lot of what I have seen is, frankly, disgusting human behaviour when taking the Online Disinhibition Effect into account.

It gets to the point, in my opinion, where I staunchly support Wikia "Cleaning house..." from time-to-time. Similar to what the USSR did, in which the moment political corruption was discovered in any aspect of their government, they isolated it and purged it by removing everyone involved - even those that were innocent of corruption.