User blog comment:VickyC/Intro to Wikia’s Development Process/@comment-1630756-20111012191636/@comment-69.109.219.97-20111013061649

Hey guess when Wikia stall likes to put out these little "we care about you and here's how we do things (so suck it the hell up whiners)" messages? When they're facing a mass uprising of the users. The only time they even attempt a form of communication that doesn't involve them agreeing with only the positive things is when they've got people practically banging down their doors, and even then it's just to try and get said masses to shut up, not fix whatever's broken.

Look at the last two major times this has happened and it goes like this: Wikia staff ignore feedback, backlash grows, people start to split off, Wikia takes action against those who split, Wikia makes bs pr posts and tries to pretend that they're listening, more backlash, Wikia takes off it's friendly little mask and shows it's bile-dripping, serrated teeth. Eventually after they get things under the rug and old users move on and the people who wanted to stay get a little more chipped off their tolerance for the company, the process repeats again.

Why this works time and time again is because nothing's ever been done to take them down legally or nobody's been able to get everyone together to counteract the media storm because well. Look at the people on the Glee wiki, or the Bleach wiki, or any of the major ones, do they really seem like the type of people who seem informed about corporate tactics? Sure there's various "occupy" projects out there but you don't see anyone going for "occupy Wikia" even though they're in SF.

The insane thing is this, IF they kept the user rights as they were before they dropped the smelly ball of garbage that is oasis and proceeded to roll around in it, most of the backlash wouldn't have happened. Admins on wikis would change the features that don't work to something that does and people could see the information as each mini-community intended. Wikia wouldn't be fielding all the complaints about the features not working because people would be making workarounds to fix it, and the development and bugsquashing would be on those user's heads.

But they didn't, and now there's backlash, and they're trying to cover it up with pr. again. so yes. this is on topic.