Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140318213355/@comment-24077689-20140318233021

My biggest thing  here is to build the community more. Shutting down chat would facilitate more people frequenting the forums, more people participating in blog discussions and more people in general helping to create a fun and enjoyable community for everyone. Also, I saw you whining about this on chat earlier, so start playing that violin for yourself.

And once again, this isn't just about editing. Editing stories is a small part of the whole. Sure, it's a great thing. But we need people in the forums, we need people helping with blogs, and we need people putting in their opinions openly on the main site. Chat as it is, is a small sub-community. Not everybody likes it or uses it, not everybody that uses chat uses the main site. And that's where the problem is. Chat is essentially a high school clique at this point. Think about that for a minute before you try to argue about community and such again. The whole point is to build community. The main site is steadily declining in quality, we need the man power to fix it.

Plus, it's temporary. So, since so many seem to not get what that means, here:

Tem-po-rare-e

(adj.) Lasting only a limited amount of time; absolutely not permanent.

This is a proposal to see how a single week goes. You'll fucking live.

We have a lot of subforums that need populated, we have a new writers workshop needing activity, we have billions of blog posts all waiting eagerly to be commented on. Start building rapport with your fellow users outside of the chat. Not such a big deal, homeslice.