Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-6761334-20140414042843

Honestly, I tried to use the chat a few times ages ago and never really found it very inviting for several reasons. Well, actually, maybe it is really all related to a single reason -i'm older than a lot of the userbase here.

I really didn't feel comfortable in chat when topics such as sex came up, because I really have no interest in talking about that with teenagers. I always felt like i was a step away from ending up on a watchlsit because I wanted to see if anyone ever had something to say about creepypastas  (They didn't. At least not when I was there).

Also, I got really tired of people using offensive words and then getting upset when a ban happened. There are legimate reasons that offensive words can be used in civil conversation. Academics, for instance, can have an intelligent discussion on the roles,usage, spread patterns of things like ethnic slurs, sexist terms, and ableist language. To be blunt, nothing intelligent was ever said on any of those topics in chat. It was a lot of people wanting to say things just to say things. It was offputting to say the least.

I understand the appeal of chat. I used to im a lot, but there are plenty of other services that provide places for people to have the same type of discourse that was help in chat. I am here, specifically, for creepypastas.