Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-24460632-20140412014340

Fatal Disease wrote:

The Bitter Cold wrote: I can't believe people are actually supporting this. You're practically sending these people to Trollpasta Wiki, not enticing them to make edits on Creepypasta Wiki. I completely understand the two-week shutdown, but switching it off permanently is a poor solution. Most of that are in the chat aren't even editors. They just sit around in the chat and do the following:
 * 1) Talk about penises/sex
 * 2) Cause drama about the word "cunt"
 * 3) Look at me! I'm Jeff the Killer!
 * 4) Cause drama about stupid situations. Even if it's something like "Oh. Great. Another ___ the Killer name" a spark will light, and the fuse will explode
 * 5) Be a bunch of hypocrites: "OH I DON'T LIKE THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE SEX TALK RULE. OMIT THAT. ZOMGZ TOO MANY PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT PENISES. U SHOULD STAHP!!!!!!!!1111111"
 * 6) "ZOMG. WAI WAZ MAH PASTUR BALEETED. IT WAS WAY MUCH BETTER THAN FUCKING NOBLOW HOUSE AND ANY EDGAR ALAN POE STORY ON DA SITE!!!!"

No one in the chat hardly edits. If, however, users were enticed with "modship" or "adminship", then people would probably give two shits as to why they may put a little oomf in their work habits. Callie did this in the temp shut-down thread. And I can see users working. Once after they get the right, they would stop giving two shits about the wiki. It's strange though, I find that a lot on the main site itself.... Chat isn't exactly the ONLY place where that happens. I still edit and see other chat people edit on the site because, they either like or dislike editing you can't force that upon people.

Personally, I have found chat as a more pleasurable and actually productive way of communicating to other people about the site, and/or questions about stories.

It seems that most of you people only focus on the negative aspects of chat. You rule out any possible possitve outcomes of chat and only focus on the bad. Most of the drama caused by chat comes from the main site itself not the other way around.

Tell me, would you rather have an issue resolved in about ten minutes because someone's story got deleted or, have to explain on multiple spam blogs about it? I believe chat can be used correctly. All the "drama" is just very stupid in general and I can admit that however, most of the users will ignore it. Why take a privilege away from others when three or four others are the problem? Punish the individual users, not the other people. They have done nothing to deserve that punishment only the small amount of users that start/cause the drama.