Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-24463401-20141219011825

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to bring attention to the chat for a moment. The chat revamp last month was to try to save the chat in a final stand. From first hand experience, and confirmation from other users and mods, I can say that the chat revamp has worked. The chat revamp brought a better relationship between mods and users, a more friendly community, and complex discussions to the chat. Tension that raised between the mods and the users pre-revamp has dissolved to the point of it being almost nonexistent. Mods and users haven't been fighting, which can be clearly seen if you spend time on the chat. The recruitment of competent, confident, and experience individuals as chat mods has greatly influenced the behavior of the chat. New users have been popping up to join the community, and make it a better place for newer users. Some examples of these would be Mute and Matt, who have been active participants to the chat in the past few months. Users are being welcomed to a friendlier and less drama filled environment. More thought provoking conversations have popped up as a result of the revamp, and have continued to pop up since. Intelligent discussions about tv, movies, comics, and creepypastas have all appeared in recent months. There was even an intelligent discussion of religion one day that didn't end in arguments. Skelly himself said that the chat was being intelligent for once. We these examples, and constant more that could be brought up, we can see chat is obviously becoming a better place. I think that whenever the chat hits a bump in the road, users freak out and cause anarchy that leads to b-crats intervening. There's been no reason so far for chat to be shut down what so ever since the revamp, save for a few minute occurrences that were dealt with swiftly. Looking at this logically, is there any reason to shut down the chat? No, obviously not. You gave us a chance to prove ourselves, and so far we have. Chat has improved greatly in the last month. To end this thread, I'd like to address the users. The fate of the chat is in your hands. All you have to do is behave and be nice. That's the only thing you need to do for the chat to stay. Follow the rules, listen to the mods, and just be a nice person. As long as we have hope, all will be well. In the words of Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Keep up the good work chat.  