Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-16595819-20140414035306

Necrosanity wrote:

Justin "Zeke" David wrote: And this site is too have fun, I know it's a fricken literature site. But we don't need to be so strict about the stories. Yeah, the story may be shit to you, but maybe to others it's gold. Why is everyone so serious now. What happened to the creativity and fun. Now everything is so frustrating. All my good friends are leaving now. Damn. Where were you summer of 2012? Shit kinda went cray-cray soon as 2013 rolled around with a flurry of new developments. I think a breather would be refreshing as we focus on strengthening our foundations.

That said, feel free to blame the lack of creativity on writers themselves. The wiki has no way of regulating its userbase; only what they generate and host on the wiki.

I think you need to reevaluate this wiki's priorities. We host quality stories. We're no daycare. We were no daycare. And we never said that you were a daycare. We just happened to find that writing stories can be exhausting, and that chat can introduce a bit of fun to our day. Even if the people who constantly came here just for chat, it kept them happy (Even if some of the users who entered chat were complete cockspanks) and, more importantly, it was a way to advertise stories and express ideas.

Even if the productivity on this wikia has gone up, users will eventually find that all they can do is write stories, and will eventually run out of ideas. Even though this isn't likely to happen for a very long time, it will happen. The decline of stories will most likely drive this wikia to bring back chat, making it inevitable, so why not just re-enable it now?

Another reason keeping chat off is bad, is because, as I have already said, it allows people to socialise through Instant Messaging, and it is enjoyable just to watch the occasional troll get banned (It's still not a good thing, though.) And I do believe that the chat was shutdown not at the user's faults, but the Mods and Admins.

I don't usually bitch and whine about this subject, but it is true. The Mods and Admins of this wikia simply got too lazy to deal with the stuff that goes on in chat. They were not doing their jobs right, and the main reason that chat was such an imfamous place was because the Mods and Admins didn't have the courage to use their powers to Ban the user, or kick them at least.

If you are going to ask me, 'Would I do anything were I in that position?', then my answer would be yes. Hell yes. If I was Moderator or Administrator, and saw some stupid-ass spammer on chat, I would have the common sense to drag the cursor to that Ban button and press it. But, I'm guessing that you are not prepared to give me, or any other person the privilage to do so, so please, do not ask that.

I think that's just about it. Good day to all :)