Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-5239282-20140318015057

ShawnHowellsCP wrote: Necrosanity wrote: I Like Sharp Things wrote: Irishninja0 wrote: I Like Sharp Things wrote: shit went down today while i aws in chat for no apparent reason. some people just like to ruin other peoples days. maybe we could have a special group of moderators just for chat. dont seperate the group you already have, maybe get a new amount of people and have them specialize in the chats. i dont know. my ramblings are usually pretty bad ideas, but hey, ya never know. You do realize what you're saying is what they are trying to get rid of right? They are trying to get rid of chat. yeah i know. but the site could become something better without chat. im not saying its not a good thing, its just that shit goes down and people get pissed because they get banned Are they pulling their weight? Are they worth the privilege of chat? The output'll balance with the input, and ultimately we'd be lightening our load while having all the benefits of chat.

... That is, if butthurtedness was the only issue with chat.

All this talk reminds me of when a user brought up a chat where everybody had to have a set amount of edits, lol. Privileges. If that were the case, a whole lotta people I see would've never gone in the first place if it meant they had to contribute first. 99%, that is nearly every person in chat writes pastas.

I wasn't necessarily thinking about that. You could have quite a few quality pastas under your belt, but still a limited amount of edits apart from that. And of course low-quality stories tend to be deleted and therefore don't effect your edit count. The question is, do you help to maintain the site, not add to it (if there's a difference).

Even if we don't go for a set edit-restriction (and I know we won't because it sucks), I think very few consistently contribute on-site, not including those with responsibilty (and maybe those who want powers -- god help them).

Unless I hold our userbase with a lot less pride. ;p