Board Thread:SmashWiki Business/@comment-8-20130820204412/@comment-403621-20130821235447

I am here so that utterly ridiculous vandalism doesn't damage the reputation of either wiki. I only visit for a few minutes every few days though, which is why vandalism still exists.

I'm not stupid enough to actively sabotage this wiki; that would put a serious dent into Wikia staff's opinion of me, which would in turn damage my reputation on other wikias I staff such as the Banjo-Kazooie one. In addition, having this wiki as competition would spur the exodus'd SmashWiki to do even better. That's mostly why I suggested the drastic name change those years ago; the similarity in naming is probably hurting perception and recognition of both wikis.

That said, Mr. Glidder brings up a very good point. Wikia originally bought the original SmashWiki off SmashBoards, which included the "www.smashwiki.com" domain, and merged it with the "Super Smash Bros. Wiki" that had been created here. The "www.smashwiki.com" domain has been sitting as a redirect ever since. When the exodus occured, the domain remained while the SmashBoards users moved, and now many old links on SmashBoards point to this..."dysfunctional" wikia (for lack of a better term). Even now, SmashBoards users have to tell the newbies "no, the wiki we want to associate with is over here".

I am willing to pay $$$ or even $$$$ to get the "www.smashwiki.com" domain from Wikia, and that doesn't count the results of any donation drive SmashWiki may choose to run. In return, I'll make an executive order on SmashWiki for users to stop coming here for vandalism/defamation/etc purposes and take it upon myself to block any such offenders on both wikis. I don't have the time to actively improve both wikis, but I don't want to let our guys get away with ruining your guys' work.

PS: If you're going to use whatever this "thread" feature is, fix it. Every time I hit "undo" it corrupts the whole sentence.