Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-1473107-20140412215016

Ignoring the whole fallacious "correlation=causation" logic of this entire topic (there are other possible variables that may have led to the decline in site drama other than chat getting shut down),the statistician in me wants more data collected [basically extend the period chat remains shut down to 21+ days in order to confirm there's an actual link between the closing the chat and the drop in drama, and not just happening to occur during the days sampled], before I'd really chose a side on this one. I never used the chat, so I'm kinda indifferent, but sort of leaning toward oppose on this since several of the major changes the admins tried to implement this year kinda... backfired in a spectacular fashion.

Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: The positive effects are as follows:
 * Our reputation improves due to the chat users not invading/out right bullying each other/new users.
 * Our forums aren't filled with these trashy demotion threads because the chat mods are clearly not doing their jobs.
 * No more long "legal" fights with bcrats and admins over how this ban was unfair or how it wasn't short enough.
 * The site gets rid of a whole bunch of users that do nothing but fight and bicker at the wikis expense.

While I can't speak either way on the demotion threads or the in-fighting between the bcrats and admins, I think two things are worth pointing out:


 * Axing the chatroom won't do much, if anything, to improve CP Wiki's reputation, considering the other glaring issues people beyond the wiki's regs/admins usually  have with this site.
 * The bickering users probably won't disappear. Chances are they would either swamp the place with angry blog posts (as someone pointed out above) or (more unlikely, but still possible) start duking it out in the comment sections of the pastas themselves, which would be a royal pain in the ass for all of us who didn't care about the chat in the first place. Better to keep all the idiocy contained in one place instead of letting spread out over the entire site.

Anywho, just my still two cents.