Thread:Dycaite/@comment-5275700-20141010235654/@comment-24670986-20141014034555

BertH wrote: Hi Dycaite,

We saw that a new site is being set up elsewhere, and we're sad to see that this community wants to move away from Wikia. I wanted to reach out and ask if there's anything we can do to change your mind. Perhaps helping with technical or social concerns? I'd like to know more about he reasons you've decided to leave, even if I can't change your mind.

A few notes related to a possible move:


 * Please do not set up a permanent link to your new wiki on the main page of this Wikia site, or otherwise redirect readers to the new site upon their first arrival. It's OK to link to a local blog post or other discussion, but that can't be a permanent notice. I see that this is not the case right now, and I thank you.
 * Please make sure that any messaging in local blogs or other discussions clearly says that editors and community members have a choice to move with you or to stay.
 * Please do not try to delete pages, change fundamental elements of the site, or otherwise damage the content. The wikia should be left intact and available for any future editors to use. It will not be closed.

In the past, we have had problems with admins moving to a new host, but also staying and trying to influence the direction of the Wikia site they have left. We haven't removed rights from departing admins, unless they have tried to harm the wikia or use it to promote their own, but there can be a serious conflict of interest in trying to run what will become two competing wikis. Because of these problems, I would ask that those who choose to leave remove their admin rights at Special:UserRights. This will also make it clearer to any future editors who to contact if they need help (Wikia staff will be available for that until new admins are found).

Wikia Community Support is always happy to discuss options and solutions, we would love to keep this community as an active part of the Wikia network. Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks for all of your great work on this site in the past, whenever I have found myself here it's been fascinating and educational.

Just to make this clear, I don't have anything against Wikia [right now, anyways]. If it wasn't for this service, LMW might not have even been created to begin with.

That being said, Dycaite built this from the ground up; to say he [or any other users for that matter] can't inform people through the site he created that they are moving and that the community will be active elsewhere is absoloutely ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that you want to leave this open for the sake of revenue after the new domain is completed, which is a load of bullshit.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just being honest. It's completely unfair the community has to put up with this when it shouldn't have even been an issue in the first place.