Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-9676720-20140317205548

AlcohollicA wrote: ¡Vampire Venganza! wrote: I am neutral for a few reasons.

I support this because it would help with the improvement of the site. There would be a lot less drama. Things could actually get done around here.

I oppose this because the site would become boring, especially to users like me who love coming to chat and talking to all these people. A lot of users (including me) consider the other users their friends. Some their only friends. People they feel comfortable talking to. It's important to people, and I always look forward to coming to chat.

Here's what I think should happen. First, close chat for a week, or two weeks. Just to see if the quality of things would improve. Make tighter restirctions on the rules regarding drama and fighting. Something like that.

But don't get rid of chat completely. I forsee a lot of users leaving and the importance of this wiki dropping if one of the top reasons for coming here is taken away.

This site, as far as I am concerned, is for the writing and sharing of CreepyPastas. It's not just a stay-in-touch-with-friends. You can use Skype, set up an IRC Chat, etc. for that. As for the possibility of users leaving, that's not a bad thing. Here:

- You have a pile of rocks and sand. You want to put it in a box, but you want only sand. So, you put the pile through a sifter and get rid of the rocks.

In this case, the sand is actually helpful users, and the rocks are chat-only users who do little to help the site. I see the end of chat as a means to shed some of the users so that even if we have less people using this site, more is getting done. >use Skype

You have no fucking idea how many times I've tried using Skype. One time in particular resulted in a system restore. I've tried IRC, and it looks complicated as fuck. I can't figure out shit. Someone up there said use cell phones, but the world tends to forget that not everyone has a mobile phone.

You're saying it like the only reason I'm here is chat. I may edit and contribute occasionally, but that's because I barely find stuff that needs editing. And I can't write pastas yet, or even find something to put on here. Given the opportunity, I will gladly help out this writing and sharing site. But for now, I just come here to stay in touch with my amigos. Since Facebook isn't even reliable in chatting either. I don't slow the wiki down.