Thread:Takashichea/@comment-5916303-20160829224500/@comment-4800771-20160830000439

Regular users as Admins - they are pretty nice with the image policy when it comes to PG-13 content. The staff, Ducksoup, and others erase images because, a guy groped a girl, or a panty shot was shown. What's hard is that some franchises have manga covers with groping or even overly revealing attire such as harem shows. What can we do? We have to upload that manga/light novel cover because it's part of the wiki pages. Every manga and light novel based site has a list of volumes. I swear the staff of Wikia Central don't understand that. Then, they ask us to censor the covers which many times don't have nudity. It defeats the purpose. I never upload nudity. As for the other parts of image policy, I always follow them in any Wikia. Some prefer PNG and others prefer JPG or both. In the old site, yeah, we had image spammers. They just post the same image within 5 seconds of frame. I haven't had that issue in any of the Wikias I had. I did hate folks posting weird cropped images or collages of 2 or more anime caps or tinted GIFs. We don't need that shit. That goes on Tumblr and blogs.

Coding - I remember we were scrambling to learn coding when working on a new Wikia for the transition. It was a nightmare. We had to ask different Wikia folks to come help teach us while we "steal" templates of what it looks functional and important. When it comes to creating things from scratch, I'm not good at all. I wish there were some site that teaches the coding. Will make life so much easier. I remember you had to be careful if you mess with the CSS thingy. I don't know it was. I tried to install a Wikia Activity Refresh button feature so it automatically refreshes. Somehow the site slow down and it was because I mixed JSS and CSS together or something. I don't remember the exact details.

Oh another obstacle was promotion of the Wikia. For franchises that are big fandoms, they are really lucky. For franchises with small fandoms and obscure titles and broad Wikia like Anime Vice, Movies, etc, they have to use social media and any means to get traffic. For broad Wikias, we don't get love from the mainstream central hub Wikia such as Animanga Wikia which you have headers/footers on every wikia of one franchise. I ask them and they told me that Anime Vice is too broad. Same thing with another Movie and TV Wikia I work with. None of the hub communities want to sponsor our Wikia or link it on the front page. We actually help edit their pages and they just used us. It really sucks.

With Fandom, I hate to be cynical. The Fandom stuff isn't promoting the Wikia sites. They are promoting their own shit with those ugly side bars on every Wikia. It's really bad taste to me aesthetically.

Sorry, if I get overrailed in my rant. It was a lot of take of the shoulders. Thanks for the talk and advice. I really appreciate our conversations. I will try to look into coding and get better at it and help others not just my own group.