User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Fandom and Curse Media are joining forces/@comment-76.102.190.210-20181213025330

yeah this is awful. (hi, i'm basil and I still remember your hot mess with oasis that LED to people going to curse).

So because you can't bully them out in seo rankings, you're buying them up? i mean it's just buisiness, but it's dirty buisiness. People LEFT wikia because you didn't listen to critisism, IGNORED the beta testers who had a problem and instead listened to your marketing team. You actively scuttled plans for existing wiki's to politely leave the site, instead keeping your claws hooked in and letting your rankings on google search do the work of burying flegling sites. when people said "hey this skin doesn't really work on mobile, and the videos eat bandwidth, we're using monobook" you said NOPE and removed monobook. You also made it against the tos to edit css for others to see, because why would wiki admins know what their users want or need, amiright?

yeah, no reason for people to leave the site. the thing is now you can't bury your competition, they're too big. So instead you plied twitch with money.

and yeah, say "there's no changes for now!" I know that talk, we all know that talk. that means "we'll play nice for a few months to a year, then start dragging the wikis into our style, kicking and screaming." you're most likely going to discontinue the existing skin on gamepedia (much like how you don't even offer current users vector), and you're going to slap big, annoying, data-hogging videos all over their pages, and ruin the mobile experiance. Why do I say this? becaus this fits the model you've been using since the oasis debacle: pretend to listen, bristle when people call you out, and do what you want anyway.