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RePeat wrote: I oppose partnering with Brickimedia for several reasons.


 * 1) Users coming from Brickimedia to LMBWikia will usually have absolutely no idea what our wikia is technically about. This will of course carry no benefit to our wikia (just think about it.) and in some cases may have a negative effect.
 * 2) I am concerned about users going from LMBWikia to Brickimedia. Privacy is an issue with many of us, I believe, and Brickimedia is much easier to invade than LMBWikia.
 * 3) Users from Brickimedia and users from LMBWikia do not have the best of track records in getting along with each other. There is no reason why we should physically endorse one another.
 * 4) Meiko, one of Brickimedia's site operators, is globally blocked on wikia. Wikia would not be happy to support his branched-off website, so this may lead to unwanted arguments with wikia staff.

Please don't come at my comment like cats after a mouse. It seems very silly and extremely immature to try and change my mind. I have voiced my opinion, and I fully oppose enforcing Brickimedia, as you support it. I have not gone after your "I support."s and I ask you to respect my opinions as well. They won't change anything, I know, but since your opinion of someone goes down everytime they put out a simple "I oppose." towards your big ideas, I am obligated to keep what little good image of myself alive.

Not trying to change your mind, you have the right to oppose.

But I agree with Obi that some of your reasons for opposing are not based on what Brickimedia really is. As he replied to everything else, I'm only going to respond to the one issue he didn't respond to.

2) Brickimedia is smaller than Wikia and so of course the technical team is smaller as well. This does not mean that Wikia doesn't have issues, (we have seen in the last few weeks, but that is not my point) but you are correct that there are fewer people to maintain the site. Your point is that it would be easier for someone to hack into Brickimedia and take your information than on Wikia. This may be true.

But there are only two pieces of information required for a Brickimedia account: An account name and a password. Neither of the items need be personal information; a savvy internet user (one who would be concerned about privacy) would probably not use personal information for either. So how can a hacker take the information if it isn't there? Wikia requires much more than that (name, age, email) and though it is harder to break into their system, I am sure it is possible. Breaking into Wikia would be of much more value than breaking into Brickimedia. And that leads to my other point.

For hackers, I am sure Brickimedia is not as much of a desirable target as Wikia is. (Technically one could say Brickimedia was "hacked" before, but the hackers were not attacking Brickimedia, they were attacking the much larger host. Brickimedia has switched hosts since.) As Brickimedia is a relatively small site, few hackers would take note of it. Even if they did hack it there is no personal info they could gather from users who are concerned for their privacy, as Brickimedia does not require any info of that nature.