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

Although I sympathize with everyone's views on the topic, specifically the notion that the banning of Ausir along the global wikia server was unethical and morally dubious, it also has to be looked at from a business standpoint. From that perspective, wikia's seemingly rash and uncalled decision was justified the moment Ausir revealed what he's done. Don't flame me for this, but it is common business practice for a company to rid themselves of a user or employee if that person (or group) contribute to a competitor's progress. You could be the nicest, most tolerable user or employee within the company, but if an action you've done was subservient enough that it undermined the company's operations, then it is no longer in their interest to keep you working for them and they'll let you go. From a business standpoint, Ausir effectively updated the Fallout Wiki separately from the one now (which still has all the info prior to the clandestine modifications) and then "transferred" it to Curse, but as Spart mentioned, that wasn't the real reason why he was blocked. Rather it was because he became an admin for Curse on their Cobalt wiki, and then it changed to being the "official" one, rather than wiki's version. When he clarified that to wikia, he was banned immediately because he effectively betrayed the company by essentially taking the title of "official wiki" status for Cobalt away from wikia. A company, like Wikia, defends its intellectual property at all times, even in this scenario.

Once again, I'm none too pleased with Wikia's decision, but it makes sense from a business standpoint.