Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-5590118-20141231001329/@comment-24281984-20141231010744

ScrewYouDinkleberg wrote: Eh, seeing a chat where there's no problems and users actually use their minds is just pure imagination. The reality is, there's no real way to make people think; you just have to deal with the way things are. It is true that chat's problems never seem to be resolved. The issue of too many mods was, for a while, remidied when most of them were demoted, and now we appear to have too few to handle chat all hours of the day. Regulars being hostile to and ignoring newcomers was so rampant that a rule was specifically created to force them to be nice at the threat of kicks or bans. I notice that the Chat Rules, as they currently are, are notably longer and more specific now than when I was new to chat around June of this year. Obviously perfection is unrealistic, but chat isn't an essential part of the site and I question the value of so much effort being devoted to "improving" it when we have a whole site to focus on.