Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180401160005

It is risen, my friends. After many years of timeout for the garbage festival it had been, I believe it is high time we gave chat a chance once more. So, starting today, chat is back.

Now, before you go cross-eyed with delight, please temper your enthusiasm. Firstly, we have worked carefully with the developers behind the chat feature to develop an algorithm that factors your edit history, ban log, contributions, account age, and sanity (via an interactive test if you meet the algorithm's other criteria, one designed to ascertain your proclivity toward mischief) to determine who it will be letting into the feature when I turn it back on.

This dedicated algorithm will help weed out the less active and the more troublesome people without the need for moderators or admin in chat.

Now, you might be thinking to yourself, self, this sounds terrible. Now admin or mods? What is this mad man thinking?

Well, I'll tell you, yourself. Not a bloody thing! I have faith in the userbase, which is why instead of mods or admin to watch chat—something that can be a drain on what little resources we have in the case of admin or a huge mess in the case of mods—I have asked the developers to install the EDIT feature, or Effective Deterrent Interactive Tool. This is something that, when someone is being bad or spamming, the EDIT can be used to lower their edit count (displayed in a red number to show it has been lowered), which reduces their capacity to post messages or chat at all. Also, if their edit count is reduced to zero in this way, they will be unable to edit on the site for a week, and cannot chat until they have restored their edit count to a respectable level.

Blam, problem solved. Can't see anyone abusing that tool, no siree.

Well, folks, that's just about all I have to say about the GRAND RETURN OF CHAT!!!

Enjoy this and please don't abuse it like last time :<

Love,

Uncle Cleric <3 