Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27053351-20170306010409/@comment-27345308-20170306021847

That's because Wikipedia does not have 300,000 (or whatever the number is now) wikis on it but around 300 for every language. On Wikia, anybody gets to be an administrator of "their own" wiki. If Staff dealt with them all they would never have time to do anything else that requires a bigger amount of their attention.

Think of it like this, if a user is a bad administrator that blocked you, their wiki has lost another content editor that could be valuable. If that same admin does similar newbie mistakes, their wiki will never get big and popular enough so you might as well forget about it immediately. On the other hand, if the wiki that bad administrator administrates gets big because of the popularity of the topic, the community on it will grow big enough to overthrow the administrator with help of Staff. It all functions perfectly well, although sometimes it can be frustrating.