Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24841494-20140413162532/@comment-5619531-20140413213356

I still I still don't think that a schedule for a chat to be established. Because it would cause more work for an administrator to turn the chat on and off like a light-switch. Rather than having the chat be turned on and off, here are the options that I think that should be a reliable outcome for chat.

Option A: We leave the chat on, and let the moderators do their job - since moderators are supposed to moderate, right? We re-write the entire chat rules, providing how long the user should be banned for what they have done and if they repeat an offence (that way, we don't have user's complaining about how their ban is unjust). We also add in the rules that if anyone brings any sort of drama onto the main site they will get banned from the chat for (depending on how much drama that it has caused): This means threads about a rule that they think is unjust (like the banning of the word cunt and how it was unjust). Also, since the mods do not know on what they're doing with their jobs, we add a section in the rules that mods should not be afraid of losing their job because they're doing their job that there should be no consequences to doing their jobs. And we also omit arguments that moderators have cause, because mods who join in on the users arguing/the ones who cause the drama is highly unacceptable. And we omit mods being biased towards users. "I can't ban him for saying fa****, because he's my best friend!", "I can't ban her for linking porn, because she's my girlfriend!" "I don't want to ban her for sockpuppeting, because her ban was unjust!" And we have mods follow the site rules, like this

Then we have

Option B: Leave the chat close. Administrators don't have to worry about silly threads about the chat, like this. They don't have to worry about bans that are unjust, worry about stuff linking onto the main site, and they can worry about the site and the quality of the content and re-writing the rules. For users who are worried about the chat being turned off, there are many sites to keep contact with your friends and many more.
 * 1) Another Wikia chat
 * 2) https://www.facebook.com/
 * 3) https://twitter.com/
 * 4) http://www.chatzy.com/
 * 5) http://tinychat.com/
 * 6) http://www.skype.com/en/

Rather than having a schedule for when chat can be on, and when chat needs to be turned on, choose one of those options. Simple.