Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24841732-20140814122217/@comment-25558572-20140814213707

1. No. Drama is NOT an easy fix because often the users causing drama will never let the accidents go. It will once again leak onto the main site in blog posts and forums, wasting everyone's time and hindering the productivity of the site.

2. Instant messaging DOES NOT depend on a chatroom. Wikia chats have been freezing and altogether crashing a great deal lately, and although the problem seems to be remidied now, there is no gurantee it will stay that way. And I thought that this site had an entire forum dedicated to site questions?

3. Sorry, but not everyone is capable of being respectful. New users may come in and start spamming emoticons only to get banned because they don't bother to read the rules, and then they'll make an angry blog or forum post about either power abuse or why the fuck they were banned for doing nothing. And even if everyone makes a conscious effort to respect the other users, there will ALWAYS be trouble at some point over some issue or another. It happened with Spinpasta. It will happen again here. This is a FACT that I can attest to; remeber that time I lost my temper in Spinpasta because a friend was being insulted? Remeber when I gave up on being a mod because I couldn't handle the sex talk and insults when some troublemakers barged in?

4. WE, HAVE. PLACES. TO. CHAT. Trollpasta, where the rules are leniet enough to make getting banned a difficulty. Spinpasta, where the rules are much stricter. Community Central, which is ALWAYS at least slightly busy and has very, very tight rules. And these are just Wikia chats; once again, I point to places such as skype, dA, and Google+ hangouts.

Do I WANT chat back here? Yes! But do I believe we are responsible enough to use it without hampering the site? No. Absolutely not. We have other places that serve as very good replacements. This wiki does not need a chat and I wish everyone was more capable of moving past that and appreciating what we already have instead of asking for the impossible.