Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140627155557/@comment-5619531-20140628045422

Mystreve wrote: I think reopening the mod apps isn't such a good idea. Why? Inb4 everyone and their cousin all of the sudden is located in that timezone. So I'm going with on that.

Let me tell you why that's bullshit on not allowing to re-open the mod apps for that time period. Pretty much, MOST of the users on the chat at that time period are obnoxious little shits. They complain about getting kicked for caps abuse, after me or Bitter -- pretty much the only mods on that time period, mostly me though -- respond with numerous warnings on this.

Rather having numerous of people apply, why not we just hold up an election for who will be a good mod for this time. How will this work? Rather than having one bureaucrat be the be all, end all on all of this, why not we have the administration/moderators that want to go through the hassle to round up good mod candidates for this time period. There's two users that I find fitting to be good mod candidates, since they're on. Why, one user (who is a candidate) actually pmed me a current situation for me to handle. Edit count? I say that we fuck the criteria of edits, because I'm sick and tired of dealing with a cancerous chat.

Princess Callie wrote: I say we go for the full month this time. The success of the last shutdown was incredible. While other users will disagree, I agree with the whole month situation. Not because of my previous "ugh. chat is so cancerous. i dont wanna mod this piece of cancerous shit." (definitely not that reason; I, mostly, love my job and the people that I get to help out with). But it can actually benefit for the site, as well as Trollpasta. During the first chat shut-down, most of the people just moved to Trollpasta's chat. I actually had fun being on that chat, seeing all the familiar faces obeying the rules there (since the rules there are just common sense rules). So, I'm up for a month, and will do my part for all three sites.

ChaoZStrider wrote: the chat shutdown as chat is just as essential to this site as the forums are. It is how we communicate with one another and it is more helpful then the forums are if you want help almost instantly with a problem. As Skelly has said, and others can agree to this: "The chat is the worst aspect to this site." I believe the forums are a better way of communication, rather than the chat. Echoing SG's words, it's been nothing but constant drama. You can see how obnoxious the users can get, while the moderators do their job. I tried to calm everyone down, and requested proof of screencaps while some "spammer" came onto the chat, while I can agree with Bitter that there wasn't a spammer, because no-one really responded to my pm's with actual proof of the incident. I believe no one actually helps other users with situations, other than the moderating admins and myself. Although I did see some critique going on the other day, while the user didn't take the criticism and left.

And I'm not even going to respond to Zy's comment, since Callie had responded it so perfectly. It's not the admins job to watch the chat, but the moderators