Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140318213355/@comment-24693653-20140319142146

SOMEGUY123 wrote: LOLSKELETONS wrote:

Defrether wrote: 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. Chat is the reason people come to this site and post stories? Really? Because it seems to me the main reason people come here is to read and post stories. Not fucking chat. And it's not like chat is the only outlet for communication (or "socializing") on this site; just look at the forums, blog posts, etc. Editing isn't the only thing to do around here. Chat: about 30 people every day.

Main site: over 2.000 users and about 600 edits every day.

Yes, I get that, but seriously, this isn't too encouraging for people to try and come on the site, and yes, we have a SHITTON of users, but there is a reason I am neutral, I'm trying to see both sides of the argument right now, and can't pick a side.

As for the users leaving: Alot of the users in chat were actually VERY beneficial to the chat, and when we closed it last time, they didn't come back. Yeah, you'll get people to review the pastas, and whatnot, but what about the people that want to try and get some criticism? Chat is the perfect place to do that. Oh yeah, sure, we'll all just go to the forums, and ASSUME someone will read them.