Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209674-20140225224507/@comment-5578690-20140313070146

Love Robin wrote: why don't you take a quick look at the actual wikis in question rather than jumping to conclusions? not one of the inactive wikis was created for any other purpose than what gamegear said. there is a clear difference between the wiki having an actual use such as an actual focus and being built compared to the purpose of simply creating new ones out of frustration or to irritate others? yes this did have something to do with the disruptive users from before. since you bring up the question of what does it matter, why is it necesarry to have 100+inactive wikis? there comes a place where its just a waste of domain names that wikia has to pay for. those domain urls are not cheap, what use is ads if no one sees them? also consider the fact that the more wikis, the more the community is split; this community is already severely split so why in the world would you recommend to further that split?

these wikis were created for the pure purpose of irritation and to grab as many urls as possible but not contribute more than a month before abandoning the created wiki. if a dominant wiki already exists, why would someone want to adopt a failing one? while in that case it would make more sense to start over if the dominant community was not very welcoming. community already went through once and eliminated wikis when the count was around 15, after that the count skyrocketed when the second part of the discussion failed.

the very large gaming and pure entertainment wikis don't have this issue because everyone works together compared to the less popular wikis that almost always have this issue and staff is NOT willing to deal with issues until too late (situation gets out of control). while anyone is free to create a wiki, nerf and spongebob prove that certain limitations must be implemented. ignoring the problem, which most people would prefer, doesn't fix it rather makes it harder to fix later on when it does get  out of control. this ignoring is shown both by members of wikia and staff - see sannse's most recent blog post. there are situations where people are expecting action from staff yet are told to just create a new wiki (essentially) and that only leads to this continued problem. "move on and start on a new wiki" == go start your own wiki, we don't care