User blog comment:SpartHawg948/Ausir globally banned from Wikia/@comment-743796-20120120174920/@comment-217683-20120121065502

But when considering it from a business standpoint, you also have to consider not just the action itself, but the fallout (no pun intended). And I don't think they did that here. I mean, the story is being run on several prominent gaming sites. When was the last time you can recall the banning of a single user by Wikia being reported on Kotaku? And the story being told is not putting Wikia in a positive light at all.

From a business sense, it seems to me that the best course of action for Wikia would have been to quietly and without any fanfare give up the claim that their Cobalt wiki was the "official" one when it clearly wasn't. Given Ausir's demonstrated character, he could be safely depended on not to crow about it and make it up as some victory over Wikia.

But nooo... instead, Wikia has to lash out like a three-year old, turning even more people off and causing people who have never before had serious reservations about Wikia (such as yours truly) to question the faith they had previously placed in Wikia. Not good business at all...