Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-3238001-20140317200414

Yeah you made some good points, but what about all the good chat has done? I made new friends, met new people because of chat. I got to see new ways of thinking and meet some genuinely nice people. Yes some mods are biased, some do get power hungry, etc. however what you didn't say was what we can do about it. There is a thing called punishment, for example, if say Princess Callie or Strider go power hungry or act very biased and unfair towards other people, they can have their rights taken away temporarily. There are other ways we can do this besides removing chat. Chat allows users to give opinions or talk to your fellow story writers, you can get new ideas and share them with other people. I could brag to my friends about how many good reviews my pasta got or help out new users. Maria some of us do work, I'm one of the people that does do the work (I review pastas and write them occasionally.)  and I think I'm quite effective at it. Plus there are admins doing their job here, and watching chat too. Admins don't have to watch over chat, but they come to talk to their friends and confidants. They choose to come, its not that they have a responsibility there like the mods do, but they come because while yes they do have the power, they come to converse and mingle with people they care about (or not care about). Yes there are users on here who haven't contributed as much as you used to, but some of us do try. We do our work, and the reason some of us don't fix edits and such is not because of chat, its just because we don't feel like it (and I once remember a rule about normal users not allowed to fix things and what not but I don't know if that is still in effect). Plus sometimes there are people that aren't good at editing stuff, Kill1memes is an admin but he isn't that great at writing and editing. I say that you did make some good points, but are wrong about removing chat. I love chat, yes it has its flaws but its a place i can call home.