User blog comment:TheOneFootTallBrickWall/Your Wiki reputation/@comment-961279-20171113074750

There are users who deliberately cause problems and then there's users who don't realize how far their actions will reach. For example, they don't like a particular TV show so they go to the wiki for it and start bad-mouthing it, saying it's stupid and the people are stupid for liking it, or what have you. They take the freedom of being able to say "I don't like something" too far and it becomes "I don't like something and I'm going to make sure everyone knows it". Then they go back to the wiki they do like and continue working there.

What these people don't realize is that their reputation crosses borders between wikis. They might think it's okay to be a jerk on a different wiki because it's separate from the ones they usually go to, the ones they do good work to help out on. "It's somewhere else, so it doesn't matter what I do there. I'm okay here."

The reality is wikis are not so separate. Being good on one wiki while they're bad on another does not speak well of their character.

That's something I look for when I'm dealing with a poor edit. How has that person behaved on other wikis? Does this edit match up with what they've done elsewhere? Were they blocked on those other wikis because of it? Are they testing the waters here to see if they can take it further, maybe to the point where it's vandalism? I factor in behavior on other wikis when I make decisions on whether a block is needed.

Your Fandom account gives you additional access to all the wikis hosted by them. Your reputation goes with you as you go from wiki to wiki. Help out when you can, and remember, "good handing" on one wiki while you "bad hand" on another can catch up to you. You may lose access to what you like because of what you don't like.