Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24841732-20140814122217/@comment-24898085-20140814213220

Personally, I believe chat was beneficial to the site. New users could come and ask questions about the site. Several times have I seen this happening. Unlike the talk pages, they got an immediate response. Some even stayed. Some became editors. Some became pasta-writers, etc etc. Point is, it created a sense of community, which led them to want to stay. Hell, it's what happened to me.

Some of the regulars, myself included,  have also formed a group, and discussed amongst ourselves new rules, and we have all agreed that if chat did possibly come back, we'd make an effort to keep it harmonious. It took a chat shut down for us to see the error of our ways, and I certainly saw my personal errors, and realised that I was a main contributor to the chat downfall.

Also, about the users splitting off into different chats. Did we or did we not agree to come together for a better cause to bring back the chat? I agree that at first we were immature, but then we realised that comparing spinpasta and trollpasta was silly. The recent split off was mostly due to chat glitches and the creation of Answers wiki, which caused most users to migrate there from spinpasta. Many also migrated to trollpasta for its relaxed nature. It was not related to the silly spinpasta vs trollpasta we had at the beginning of the shutdown.

Personally I think the majority of us have matured since the shutdown, and we want to resolve things, set things right. If you'd only give us one last chance. If chat *does* return, I am going to make a huge effort to make myself a helpful entity around the chat, aiding new users, and just ensuring I am friendly and mature. I am almost certain that everyone else will all be the same way.

This was the scare we needed.

Just one last chance.