Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-24077689-20140317224055

You want a reason besides the petty bullshit?

The idea that suddenly we'd be less of a community seems preposterous. There are plenty of avenues of discussion and personally I find the forums a much cleaner, easier, and all around nicer way to communicate. As a matter of fact, there are regular users that I don't even know because they pretty much only go to chat. That blows.

Going into chat, especially if you're not a regular, is such a clusterfuck of conversation and useless crap, it's basically a fucking sewage line. Only in this case the sewage is fucking mouth diahrrea. All I've ever seen coming from the chat is drama and the occasional helpful topic. Please notice I said "occasional", more often than not it's a mess.

I really think all of this would be better in the forum. Seriously. We have an off-topic board. We have a general board. It'd be a much more organized and much nicer environment in which to communicate. And if you really want a chat so fucking bad make an IRC channel. Seriously, not that difficult, and we can link to it and advertise it, just get the motherfucker off the site. I'm going to repeat what I say in nearly every thread, this wiki is about literature, the sharing and editing of stories, primarily. The community as a whole should stem off that, not the other way around.

Lets do a trial run, make sure that EVERYBODY is made aware that it's happening. FRONT PAGE BIG BOLD LETTERS. STICKIED FORUM THREADS. The whole nine yards. Trial run for a month. Lets see how much we can get done in this time, any blogs or forum topics pop up asking what happened somebody share a link to the stickied thread and then lock it. No need for useless shit storms. No need for drama. Make it clear, make sure people are informed about it, and lets focus on the site.

If chat being taken down really drives people away then good riddance. This site has way more to offer than that, if they don't want to be part of the community outside of that cesspool then who cares? We've had users, mods, admins, all leaving in fucking droves. All because the site is going downhill. We need to focus and get our heads out of our asses.