Board Thread:SmashWiki Business/@comment-8-20130820204412/@comment-3107571-20130821230330

Man I dragged myself out of the woodwork for this discussion; it's been a while since I cared enough to log in (which I had to to read this, of course, since literally 70% of the page is ads otherwise - yeah real smart for getting people to be interested in your actual content).

The fact is, this wiki's a ghost town. Way back when I first showed up here I thought I would be capable of bringing it back to respectability, and I lost interest quickly because all the people who cared had left - and by "people who cared", I don't just mean the Wikia users who care, but all the members of the greater Smash Bros. community. Like it or not, people like Toomai and OmegaTyrant control all the intelligent information and data; once they've chosen a preferred wiki, that will be the winner regardless of what you try to bring to the table (and I suspect they'd have a hissy fit if you tried to steal their info and/or their templates for presenting it). And guess what, all you bring to the table are ridiculous ads and features that actively damage the ability for skilled users to improve the wiki, and instead just help newbies communicate like a social network, which I believe is contrary to our mission statement (wiki first, social last).

Frankly I think the only reason the old crowd hangs around is because they're waiting to get the www.smashwiki.com domain back. I bet if you sold it to them they'd stop badgering you.