Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-24376429-20140412171915

The Bitter Cold wrote: ImGonnaBeThatGuy wrote: - The opposition is overwhelming, but I still wanted to vote. It's been nice not having chat. I've seen no negative impact. Things have been much calmer. The wiki didn't crumble into the sea. The site's numbers are still good and we're still getting submissions. There's still a community, people communicated just as easily.

On the other hand, I took back my admin rights while chat was gone. Once it comes back, I get to stop patrolling this site for trash and explaining to people why their stories got deleted. It's a win-win situation for me. I greatly respect your opinion, but I didn't see anything that suggests shutting down the chat would have a positive effect on the wiki; the fact that an action does not have a negative effect doesn't necessarily mean it has a positive effect. The positive effects are as follows:
 * Our reputation improves due to the chat users not invading/out right bullying each other/new users.
 * Our forums aren't filled with these trashy demotion threads because the chat mods are clearly not doing their jobs.
 * No more long "legal" fights with bcrats and admins over how this ban was unfair or how it wasn't short enough.
 * The site gets rid of a whole bunch of users that do nothing but fight and bicker at the wikis expense.