Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140318213355/@comment-14330887-20140319091711

 - Now, I know it's been said several times, but I shall state it again: removing chat to try to send a message is a dumb idea.

One, people behave like three year olds when they get something taken away that they don't like. They'll bitch and moan, won't cooperate at all, and will basically wait until their demands are met before they decide they may become civil again.

Two, hoping that closing it down, even temporarily, to get extra editors (especially "high quality") is just a fucking self-delusion. Most people have trouble with basic sentence structure and proper punctuation, let alone spelling things correctly in addition to the aforementioned items. Beyond that, motivating people through negative reinforcement like that is just likely to get some asshole who will delete good things out of revenge, causing more work for the mods and admins.

Three, the whole concept of closing chat, even temporarily, for your reasons is a tactic that negatively affects a good demographic. You're basically just deciding to try to employ an exclusionary policy on a casual reader group (myself being in this group). Sure, we don't make many edits, I only have nine myself. This may not seem like much, but given that some of us come here to enjoy the community of people and get deeper involved within the social culture of the community, only making a few edits isn't bad. Consider that many of us come home from full days of work (myself usually having 10 hour work days), and we go to the chat to enjoy the community. Sure, we're not making edits, but we are not terrorizing the community and releasing stories and articles that seem to be the true source of your anger. Punishing those that have done no wrong is no different than being a tyrant.

End of my ranting/explanations. I could explain myself more, but there's no need to do that. Personally, I have done nothing that requires it.