Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-4832646-20140318173641

AlcohollicA wrote: Princess Callie wrote: AlcohollicA wrote: Princess Callie wrote: need to drop the whole "Chat is useless." It can be useful if you want to use it. Chat itself isn't useless, but people make it useless by not using it for any helpful purpose. We should, however, transfer it to IRC and use the forums more frequently, as well as encouraging users to help the site out more. Again, compromise. IRC is out of the question - they don't want to use it. I shouldn't be reminding site-only users the same I remind chat-only: If you are going to complain, at least try to change it first. Before you propose riddance of the entire thing. I have used chat frequently, myself. The often lack of actual discussion and common petty drama encouraged me to stop using it (for the most part) and propose we rid of it for a while, at least. To me, awhile is fine, provided that we can find a way to decrease the problems between both sides. That way we can have both chat and the site as a cohesive community. For example, believe or not, just a week ago I found myself in a civil debate between 10-15 users over socialism, abortion, the death penalty, and the economy.

Saying that it never has an actual discussion is like saying site users aren't fun; I've seen multiple people crack jokes in the forums. Find the common ground instead of saying "good riddance" to chat and pieces, no matter how small or "useless" they may be, of the community.