Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34645141-20161008140742

I'm sorry if this causes any unneeded drama, but some things need to be said.

So as some of us know, Wikia has made some....questionable desicions recently. And these reasons have caused some users to make rants on this kind of things or outright leave the website. Here's a quick rundown of some of the things that have happened

SEEMING TO TARGET LE MIIVERSE RESOURCE USERS FOR GLOBAL BLOCKS

Any user who's used said wiki knows what I'm talking about. We've had a slew of users get globally blocked that were from LMR. At first the users they globalled deserved it, like NobodyKnowsTheJav or JMurph. Then after Navus was globalled, things got suspicious. We looked into it and he was blocked for a sexual trollpasta. The main issue with that was that many users said that Trollpasta's content got the OK on Community Central itself, so that seemed out of place.

Then we start off August with Korndude, who was an active Le Miiverse Resource user and had his own wiki, being globally blocked. We found out it was for apparently vandalizing. Now I get that vandalizing is a huge no-no on Wikia, but he didn't even do that bad of vandalization, all he did was empty a page on his own joke wiki, so this drove many users in the wrong direction when two users were globalled.

Then user Rick Sanhez was globalled. We don't know the official reason (I think), but we believe it was for being a member of a Spongebob Fanon wiki. While I know that not all of us want to read a sexual story involving Spongebob or Patrick, blocking a user just for using a Wiki is really stupid.

Then Michaela Leigh was globalled a few weeks after Rick. Now there's a story behind this one: Micheala joins Wikia under the name of MichaelaLeigh16, and she joined a wiki that had some NSFW stuff on it, and got globalled. While alting isn't exactly the best thing to do, the fact that it took almost a year to find an alt of a globalled user with nearly identical usernames is off.

And then I was globalled. At first I thought it had something to do with a comment I made on the discussions announcement, which I'll talk about later. Though it turns out it was for impersonating a troll. While that was a stupid thing to do, the fact that it took five months for them to realize my troll account made it seem out of the blue and biased.

Then user DylanWikiaBlaBlaBla was globalled. We still don't know why, but I think that it was because his user name seemed a little alt-y.

Then Kervmaster was globalled, and I don't have the foggiest idea why.

Now when I originally made this a user said that since Le Miiverse Resource has a big problem with vandals and trolls we get checked on by VSTF more, leading to more false blocks, but some of these blocks just feel out of nowhere.

DISCUSSIONS

Recently Wikia made the announcement for Discussions to replace forums and have an easier time posting on mobile. While I admit that posting on forums from mobile can be a pain sometimes, it's not worth replacing forums over. The announcement recieved extremely negative reactions, and I saw a few petitions that got a lot of kudos, one being the most kudos I've ever seen on a Wikia forum post (it had 115 kudos last time I checked). And the wikis that have tested Discussions claim that you can't really have a conversation due to the flood of new posts and not being able to highlight an important announcement. So this was frowned upon by many users and probably won't be implemented into many wikis.

REBRANDING INTO FANDOM

Now even more recently, about a week and 1/2 or so ago, they made the announcement that Wikia would be rebranding into Fandom. While I don't know about other wikis, users on Le Miiverse Resource threw an uproar over this, with most users claiming that Fandom articles are "poorly written clickbate". While I've only read a few Fandom articles, half of them felt like a waste of time reading. I even know some users who flat out refuse to call it Fandom, and will always call it Wikia (there are times where I'll joke around and act like Fandom is a swear word).

In the end, Wikia seems to be going downhill in these days. Some users I've come to know and love have left over this. I'd say Wikia either step up it's game or face an activity drop. 