Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-1196539-20140318154245

Lil' Miss Rarity wrote:

Much of the non-essential communication in the chatroom does nothing but stir up copious amounts of trouble as users tend to fight over some of the most ridiculous things. It is also a very unfriendly and unwelcoming place for new users as the moderators are extremely biased towards a small group of their friends. This then prompts other users to seek help from administrators on the site which causes the issues to spill out. If chat was limited to essential communication only things like this wouldn't happen and productivity on the site will increase due to the community having a place to discuss issues in real time. I never use the chat, myself, and thus have no personal vestment in the issue, but... that sounds more like a problem with moderation than with the chat itself. That's just unacceptable behavior, and if it's what the chat mods are doing, then I would suggest either finding new ones or getting rid of them entirely. If they're creating an atmosphere of conflict and negativity then at least with no moderation there's some CHANCE at the situation improving. With responsible mods, it's more a likelihood, but I don't know what kind of pickings there are.