Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140318213355/@comment-24693653-20140319134827

I do not care beyond this point, and I see it like this. (And yes, I know it's only for 2 weeks) If the CHAT goes down, the SITE, will soon follow. You can't give peopel the site, and then expect them to just edit, that's tantamount to them working in a cubicle with no interaction with each other.

By removing the chat, You are removing the people, and the possibility of more stories, and some of them are very good, because a good majority of these stories start in chat as a collaboration.

As for "Being encouraged to use the forums", again, tantamount to putting them in a cubicle. They need SOCIAL interaction, if they are to help on this site. People don't want to just edit things, sometimes, they need to take a break and go talk with people on the chat, laugh a bit, then go back to editing. A "cubicle" has no such interactions.

Oh, so one person bitches about chat being an unruly place and everyone decides to be sheep and follow that? Funny, I haven't laughed harder at that. This site isn't going to get better without a chat.

Yes, I am a chat mod, but guess what? I understand these people's view points. Some of them think it would be beneficial, some of them don't.

Tl;dr The chat goes down, the site loses people and stories.