Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-5643552-20140318092506

WiIlow wrote: Why are any of you under the illusion that shutting down chat will stop the drama? No, all the drama that is actually mostly contained in chat will simply spill over onto the main site, like it has the many times before this has been proposed.

Sure, having chat contains chat drama. Not having chat doesn't contain chat drama. Makes perfect sense. Yes, I realize that if chat is taken down for good all hell will break loose on the main site, members who were only here to chat will get pissed and leave, and so on and so forth. It's not like that kind of thing will cause irreversible damage the wiki or the community.

And as for saying people in chat do not contribute, that is the most untrue thing I have ever heard in my entire life. People who use chat contribute as much as people who do not.

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My last point is, I have been told before, by the creator of this thread, no less, that by being on chat, I am contributing to the community of this site. Now tell me, when did that change? I am getting some massively mixed messages here.

Well, I can't really speak on Maria's behalf, but that sounds like a load of bullshit. Chat is not what makes us a community. Like Nooth said earlier, there are plenty of other, better ways users can communicate on the site.

The fact is, chat does keep the majority of it's drama contained to the chat. You are condemning it because of a few users, the majority of which are either new, or known to break the rules often, who think that it is a good idea to rant about the drama there on the main site.

Once again, there would be no fucking chat drama if there wasn't a chat to begin with. We're not condemning it because a few newbies are ruining everyone's fun, but because chat causes a lot of problems, doesn't do much good, and is generally a burden for people trying to maintain the site.