Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-24077689-20140414163224

I really have no idea what to say here, initially I was leaning on Neutral. But after reading this thread, I'm kind of leaning on support.

Why don't we extend it for a month, as we had initially talked about? If you remember, I was a pretty big proponent of shutdown for 2 weeks, seeing how it goes, then if it goes well extending it for another 2 weeks. A month's time.

I guess I'll despite some of the great points and overwhelming opposition. Chat has largely been a hostile place to be, and yes I agree that potentially a renovation could help it, but where does that end? Remake the rules, make them more strict so that the overrun of immature dipshits doesn't reflect chat, demote mods, promote new mods. I really feel like this wouldn't help. It's just prolonging the inevitable.

We've seen an increase in activity, in the past 2 weeks I've seen some pretty promising activity going on, the forums have been wonderfully active, as for the whole "talk pages don't work" I've had at least 4 new back-and-forth talks with people via talk page in the last 2 weeks.

And as for the people visiting without making accounts? I've been frequenting the CP wiki for nearly 2 years, perhaps longer, I didn't make an account until relatively recently. Of course, I don't represent a majority of people, but this kind of activity in fairly common on the net.

Let me propose it again: extend it to a month. Maximum. We'll continue our forward momentum for another 2 weeks then bring back chat on a month probationary period. If at the end of that month chat is still going and our forward momentum hasn't been interrupted, then lets keep it.

I also think this would be beneficial because in the next 2 weeks we need, absolutely need to finish up the renovations to the site. The proposals are all fine and great, but it needs to get done. I think if it doesn't get done and we bring chat back and have to start renovating chat and dealing with that, it simply won't happen. One project at a time, guys. We need to get the front page done, all those great ideas need to be finished, we need to get the main blogs/threads done. Get the major shit out of the way before we tackle the other major project of chat.