Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180506105530/@comment-246292-20180513224628

I've waited on weighing in since I don't know much about the behind the scenes workings/coding of the site. As it relates to galleries, I do think we should do what we can to help SEO within reason. Tupka and others probably know more about how to achieve this than I do. It just seems important to me to point out that Fandom will always prioritize clicks over quality content; that's how they make a profit and stay in business. That's fine if we recognize that. That said, I don't think we should sacrifice being an encyclopedia and having good content, both articles and images, in favor of the almighty SEO. I'm not saying one is better than the other but there should be a way to find balance.

As for criticism of the "admin team", I don't think that's entirely fair. Several admins have gone inactive over the years and some of them pushed harder for things than others. The slider, for instance, was meant to prominently direct people who to ask for help. I personally never cared for the image choice even though it was supposed to be a joke. That can go as far as I'm concerned.

If the Marvel side has good ideas, great let's see how we can adapt them here. Maybe they'd like to do the same with some of ours. I don't think anyone ever said if Marvel does something, we can't. I just don't think we need to make every choice the same as them. Some of their choices bother me but I'm open to new ideas.

It seems this discussion has become more (subtly) heated than it needed to be. We're all invested in this site and want the best for it, even when we disagree.