Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140318213355/@comment-27007772-20140319163518

Noothgrush wrote: Where is all this "slander" coming from? People aren't getting reamed any more or any less.

I really think editing is only part of this. We shouldn't just be focusing on making users edit and making mods edit, etc. We should be focusing on the whole. Shutting chat down for a trial basis might bolster activity on the main site. Something that you people seem to keep ignoring is that we have forums that we're trying to populate. We have comments and blogs all of which need attention.

Willow, you're right, we have a shitty reputation. This trial is an attempt to build our community, bolster edits, encourage people to participate in the community outside of chat. Admittedly, shutting down chat will probably result in a negligible amount of edits from the average user base. However, if we increase user presence and encourage people to participate as a group in the forums and on the blogs, we can really improve this place. The chat seems like a clique. And similarly, thinking about it, we sort of have a rudimentary clique going on with the main site, namely users who don't really use chat but are super active. I feel like if we cultivate a more personable atmosphere, with more active users in the community we can get a better reputation.

I mean, what's our reputation right now? We are too strict, we delete willy-nilly, chat is great, etc. etc.

Though, I do think mods have a responsibility to the site. I stand by what I said, they should be required to have a set amount of activity on the main site before they can become a mod of any kind. They are chat mods. Chat. They are not admins who watch the site, they watch the damn chat. That is their area. Do admins need 50+ hours in chat to be hired as admin? No. Why? They watch the site, not chat. It is the same thing.

If people come for the chat, alright. Great.

Come for the site itself, alright. Great.

It does not matter. Almost everyone in chat contributes. They do the admins job better, too. I see more people talking about pastas that should be removed, and making propositions that go farther than admins.