User blog comment:Xenomorph6666/Proposal and suggestions for this site/@comment-4849011-20161221003314

It seems to me that for the most part, people interact with each other just fine. As people have said before, chat was removed because people abused it. It was removed once, and then it was returned with the disclaimer that if people couldn't be civil, then it would be removed for good. The bullies and trolls didn't listen and continued to act cruelly, and so it was removed for good. If chat were to return, it would send the message that the higher-ups don't mean it when they give warnings, and that's something we can't have.