User blog comment:ScrewYouDinkleberg/A new year, a new change./@comment-10319977-20150102012842/@comment-25428589-20150103225021

It's up to the discretion of the admins on each individual wiki. However, I believe that the shock of chat being shut down here will scare users into behaving well on other wikis they might migrate to.

Also, chat mods will carry out their jobs far more effectively, as the constant threat of misbehaving users causing a shutdown will cause them to enforce the rules more strictly.

As a side note, the admins on Spinpasta wiki are different to those over here, and include a couple of our regulars. I think a key reason for chat shutdown here was that it took up too much of the admin's time having to resolve issues with the mods. I would say, at a glance, that the admins there look like they won't mind having to deal with chat issues so much, due to them using it often.