Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-10950063-20140413031050

The Damn Batman wrote:

The whole "Why keep it if only a few people use it?" argument can also apply to 80% of the site. All the articles written that only like three people read, all the forum posts that get closed as soon as their posted, and basically all of the blogs. I understand that chat causes BS, but considering that a lot of people in general just spout bullshit... I think that we may just have a large collection of them. People can spread bullshit in forums (this one for example), article comments, and talk pages. If there's anything that I've learned in my life, it's that people just keep on talking even when they know they're saying bullshit. Articles and blogs that don't get read don't cause problems. Closed forum threads are solutions to problems. Yeah, people can spread bullshit everywhere, but comments, forum posts, whatever don't create the kind of drama that chat does. Just because people CAN cause problems elsewhere doesn't justify keeping the place that DOES cause problems and keeps causing them.

Forums, comments, talk pages can be cleaned up easily. Everything is out in the open and can be reviewed. No one has to rely on screenshots of private messages or gossip. It's all on the surface.