Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-30302124-20190129013343/@comment-957629-20190130135440

Yyp wrote: In addition to what I said above, (and I cant say much about it due to the non-disclosure agreement) but Fandom has actually been taking aboard people's feedback at Community Council on many topics and the approach has improved a lot on Fandom's part. You would be surprised how open they can be when they aren't getting screamed at on Community Central but people actually have reasoned conversations about things and you can understand what they are trying to achieve and why somethings genuinely do need to change for technical and performance reasons (though of course business reasons abound too). I think mainly what Xilinoc is referring to in this situation is how they responded to people who had concerns about the fandom url replacing the wikia url. Often in those topics, members of staff were guilty of copying and pasting a lot of their responses to people who were against it. Future was a bit more into the discussions than myself and I know it annoyed and insulted him no end to have his concerns reduced to a copy and paste response.

I have old Friends who still work for Fandom/Wikia and I in no way see them as bad people, I am aware these decisions are not made by them. But it is still a let down that a url is forced upon us despite the clear discourse of this Wiki in that we want to be and remain, a wiki, a database for the manga series Bleach and its adaptations. When they rebranded as FANDOM I felt it odd but saw it fitting given their social media aspirations (as seen with introduction of Chat/Forums/Article Comments/Discussions) and I felt fine because well they may be FANDOM but this is still Bleach Wiki.

Now however, the concern is real. They were willing to make exceptions for certain "types" of Wikis judged by often serious or intellectual nature but Wikis that focused on entertainment media automatically were branded Fandoms with these new URLs despite some not being that. Our Wiki is clearly not akin to other Wikis that really embrace the discussion side of things especially when many of the posts on those Wikis are..."poo"posting as it is called and messing around.

That's not the type of environment that I want to be around, people can find that on Reddit or other forms of discussion. Yes there are times when we need to discuss the upkeep of the Wiki but I do not want to encourage the behaviour that goes on elsewhere to happen here. Its been what a week a fortnight at most since the URLs changed to Fandom from Wikia and already there is someone using "but its fandom.com" as an excuse to try and manipulate us into changing to suit the social media ideas of FANDOM.

Granted, this may be a rare or minimal occurrence, only time will tell, but when these changes are forced upon people without addressing their concerns or the concerns of the community at large, it presents these dilemmas when people do expect this site to be a "Fandom" instead of an accurate, presentable database. It just causes conflicts of interest, like this one, and is a bit counter productive when would rather be doing other stuff than again justifying yourself that, no this community wants to remain as a Wiki with dedicated editors than screaming or manic fans messing around.