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What's the deal with these wiki sites that seem to consist entirely of user generated content, but absolutely bury it under mountains of ads? How do these place
by ahefner 5y ago
What's the deal with these wiki sites that seem to consist entirely of user generated content, but absolutely bury it under mountains of ads? How do these places exist, and why do people continue to contribute to them?
- pferde 5y agoWebsites with mountains of ads have simply become normal and accepted. It's sad, but it happened.
- account42 5y agoOne reason they continue to exist is because Google will often rank the add-laden Wikia site higher than the respective community-organized wiki.
- jchw 5y agoWikia started out very differently. It became what it was slowly, over a long period of time. Miraheze is now the preferred wiki host of community-driven sites, I hope that it will not eventually transform into Wikia/Fandom. Many of the other “wiki” sites on the net are just rehosting GFDL content and slapping ads on them, then trying to SEO to get ahead of real wikis. Blame Google for not coming up with a good solution on that one, IMO.