Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-20644-20141110180435/@comment-776174-20141124050647

Wow. Don't most companies try to avoid such a thing? Xerox, Band Aid, Chapstick, Kleenex, even Kitty Litter have battled with the eponymous use of their brand names. Most people are completely unaware that escalator, zipper, and heroin(!) were once spelled with a capital intials as trademarks. Encouraging the use of your proprietary name in this way seems odd.

Wikia is a service. That service being hosting and tools for creating wikis and that is for what I use it. Just as I once used Blogspot for blogging and MySpace for...ummm...pimping.

It's true that I have formed invaluable virtual friendships while using Wikia but I give it no credit in facilitating those bonds. It could have been done anywhere online where the like-minded meet. We mostly communicate on Facebook, TBH.

But hey, whatever floats your boat. As long as you continue to provide and improve your service, I don't mind if your chest expands with pride whenever someone says "wikia" when they mean "wiki".