Are you suggesting we should have deleted our articles and sit on the wiki for a few months, then ask Wikia to delete it entirely?

If so, then that would have been a bad idea, because not only would it have annoying, but it would be petty and would damage our reputation in the long run. We would be annoying ourselves by not being able to edit our work for however long it took to accomplishthis, and would also deprive fellow fans of information.

Besides, wikia would just restore the wiki from a backup database. They would never delete it entirely if there's money to be had.Towards the end, Wikia were very impatient to see is go as we were clearly not going to toe the company line. Apparently our protest made it to the technology section of The Guardian in the UK.

When they started placing ads on the front page of the wiki, it busted up the layout, but we decided to leave it alone with the ad hovering over content as a protest. Wikia wanted us to fix it, we refused, they proposed to do it themselves, we weren't keen. They did it anyway... and made the problem even worse. The guy who attempted to fix the layout only used Internet Explorer, so it was screwed up for users of Opera, Firefox and other non-IE browsers.

We moved because we didn't want corporate interference such as this into our hobby. As for competition, it's not much competition. Assuming the Wikia wallows in an unmoderated wasteland from now on, we will catch up in google rankings eventually.