Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-1393830-20130226193619

I talked a bit about this to Sal and some others on chat but this is the official proposal. I think it is time we abandoned Bleach Answers and shifted attention from answering questions there, to answering questions here. The new forums have started to gain a legitimate use by several users and asking real questions. Meanwhile Bleach Answers, now, more than ever, is pure hell. 90% of questions asked are spam questions that get asked on a daily basis. The current spam question that is asked every day, sometimes 2-3 times a day, is when do english dub episodes air. I delete at least 5 questions asking when the anime is coming back everyday, as I have posted large signs all over the site saying that the anime was cancelled and there are no plans to continue it at this point. This message can be found several places on the site and yet people still ask the question many many times every day. I have been the sole admin there for about 3 months now. I can say that for even longer than those three months, there has been nothing worthwile there. Dig through the deletion logs and you will find nothing but people begging for the anime to come back, personal attacks on myself, repeated questions and people posting statements instead of answers. There was a coordinated attack against the wiki a week ago with 10+ ips a day asking when Episode 285 was going to air, despite it having already aired. The more people I blocked, the more came to ask the same question. There is nothing worthwile there any longer and I think it would be best if we just dropped support for it as the place to go to ask Bleach questions. I could simply put up notices across the site saying that Bleach Answers is no longer supported and that they should come to these forums instead.

By doing so, we can then thin out the amount of questions that are asked, thus stopping much of the spam, and we would have a much easier time handling everything, as more people could answer questions and more people can remove policy violating questions or answers. Wikia long ago stopped supporting Answers sites. Last time I emailed them with a bug about the answers software, the reply I received was "We are aware of the issue, but we aren't going to fix it." Since wikia has dropped all support for the answers software, I suggest we do so as well. 