Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-22224-20190129194843/@comment-25167983-20190131021237

Although I've been with this wiki for a very long time (approaching 5 years now) and have some fond memories of the community back then, I really have to ask myself sometimes... Why in the hell do we stay on this shitty site? They don't give a crap about their users unless they can make bank on us with their ad revenue. I remember way back when they were IP banning users and they "unintentionally" banned a couple of our admins and users - Dragonjet in particular was the most notable victim to these mass IP bans. What did they do? Give a pathetic and flimsy apology that they were trying to deal with "bots". And look what's happened now... history repeats. Gee, what a surprise. That DMCA notice was such a blatant false flag that they would have been able to counterclaim if they had used even an iota of sense. Companies have legal teams... which they actually use. If they had done some research on the name they were given, they would have probably realized, "Hey, isn't it weird that a company president is sending us this shady notice instead of following normal procedures and using their legal team to do so?" Nope, let's just throw an entire community under the fucking bus so we don't have to waste effort dealing with this shit. Let's also make another fact clear. '''DMM does not operate the KC twitter. ''' That should have also been another warning flag right there. The DMM company president does not own this twitter. The devs of Kancolle do, in fact, the twitter is probably run by a media team and not the devs directly either. The fact you people didn't even bother to see if everything checked out astounds me. Such a lazy and apathetic response to this current issue is just reinforcing the image of their staff that I have.

tl;dr: I'm a hella-pissed-oldtimey-latecomer to the shitstom and Fandom staff really should have known better than to just bend the knee at any random DMCA post. At the very least they should have actually cross-checked rather than just claim to have to see if the action was legitimate.