Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140318213355/@comment-24460632-20140326232641

So, you want to shut down chat for about a week or so to get those people more active into the main site.

So the chat here is indeed popular and yes, I do tend to stay in chat most of the day. In reality however, I see about maybe ten to twelve new people come into chat and such.

Chat tends to keep an average of 10-25 people on a good day. However, most of the people in chat have been here for several months and etc. And of those 10-12 new people, I see them ask questions like "Got any scary creepypastas?" or "Can you help me with a story?".

These questions are usually answered by the chat mods and even some of the users as well.

When I see new people, I try to welcome them along with everyone else. It's not my job to do that because I'm not a mod and don't plan to be one for quite sometime I just feel the need to do that.

If you think chat is damaging the site in itself, it's really only damaging the twenty or so people that go on this site for the chat itself. I still see hundreds and hundreds of new stories pass through each day.

If you think shutting down chat for a week will boost editing and use of the forums well to be honeset, no not at all.

If you haven't noticed, this site is pretty damn popular I mean REALLY popular. I don't understand why you think this site needs more activity.I do both of my fair share of editing on this site and spend a good deal in chat. If you think forums are a good substitute for chat, yeah no...

What I am trying to say is, shutting down chat would really be pointless. You people complain and complain about the drama in chat but, that's only affecting maybe 40-50 people. If chat was that bad, there wouldn't be anyone in there but Ta-dah! People are still in there.

I honestly wouldn't lose sleep if chat was shut down for a week but, just because I can live with it, doesn't make it right. To me, it seems like shutting down chat just for the sole purpose of getting users to edit more is getting a bit old. You people say this site has gone to shit because of chat well, it's still one of the busiest wikis I have ever seen.

All said and done, I think this is a waste of time and fucking energy. If you really want more people to edit, give them a good reason to edit. People edit because they like to edit not because "Oh, since they don't have chat, they will HAVE to edit now mwahaha!". No, it doesn't work like that.