Thread:Takashichea/@comment-5916303-20160829224500/@comment-4800771-20160829231752

Oh man, it's going to be a long story. I'll make it short. Anime Vice was a site part of a family of sites created by Whiskey Media, a company that doesn't exist anymore due to it being sold into parts by BermanBraun (which is known as Whalerock industry) and CBS.

The idea was unique for a site. It had blogs, forums, battle forums, rpg, fan fic, and wiki. I don't think I ever seen a site like it before. Whiskey media had this formula site for Anime, Comic, Video Game, and TV. They were called Screened, Anime Vice, Comic Vine, Tested, and Giant Bomb

However, the site was shut down along with Screened because the company was shit, pardon my language. I felt they didn't invest in us and let the site rot while regular users kept the site going and the site personality did as much as they could with little pay. I can't blame them for leaving since writers need money.

So the two sites, Anime Vice and Screened, were gone. Users were given a month in advance to back up their work and move to somewhere else. For Screened, they had a Wikia site. For the forum folks, they didn't stick together. For Anime Vice, we miraculously stuck together as a message board and Wikia. Though, we had factions bridging to a RPG and Battle Specialty site. I kept working on transferring work from the old site through Gdocs and Way Back Machine for both Screened and Anime Vice. I had thoughts of retiring, but when I got e-mails and messages of past wiki editors thanking me and the team for saving their work. They only wanted their work on the Anime Vice Wikia site. Seeing that pride moved me to tears. That's why I never quit the site; albeit it's very tiring when you have a few people left. I know people are busy and wiki is a hobby. They come back and visit. That's all I want, a place for them to kick back and relax like old times.

I do venture out to work on other Wikia sites only for those I have a strong connection. The only thing I dislike in the wikia and love in the old site was a much lax image policy. I never like the staff members removing images that never had any nudity. I read the terms of use and figured they used this lawyer language and vague text to just remove any images they deem bad even though it has no nudity. Also, the infoboxes in Wikia keeps interfering with text and images. In the old site if you see images you can see the infobox is separated in owns section (Example). I tried to experience with the code, but I realize I'm not good with code. Seeing how Wikia is driving with manual coding, I realize being a wiki system with automated coding and pages made for you made us a bit soft. We aren't used to these Java script or HTML coding. Lastly, you remember this in our conversations, plagiarism and fair use of articles. People don't give credit. Staff members allow users who are disgruntle with a bigger Wikia to start a new Wikia only to steal and paste that content. (Example: I had banned this user from AV Wikia and saw he made a Wikia on it) That's the only thing I have bad with the Wikia. The rest I like. It's free. It will probably never shut down. Hopefully. I don't want to move again.