Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140412002355/@comment-4750363-20140412011400

I could actually envision chat going through a cycle of two weeks. Two weeks on, two weeks off, etc. It seems like a balanced thing.

But it's also a somewhat frustrating and not-very-smart thing to do in the sense that it could be an inconvenience to do, so I suppose it won't actually be!

Now, chat closing forever...eh, I'm still, but I personally lean towards Support. The recent times with chat's not-stellar behavior are really a deterrent. Don't misinterpret me. I adore being in chat, and I do like helping to keep order in it if I'm around and not too overwhelmed by work, but I do have noticed that the chat has turned more into a very negative place for people. I have seen a lot of people saying that they dislike or outright hate the chat and that they want to be away and all that, but can't stop coming. I suppose that this will help them, in a way.

On the other hand, and this is may be selfish...the wikia is going through a marvelous state in the recent days! And I'm greatly enjoying this.

However, I'd like to point that the people who are right now contributing in the site and all aren't people who are really chat-only regulars. The main site could continue working, parallel to a chat. But it would certainly divide the wiki into the people who are chat-only, and wikia-mainly.

Maybe some sort of compromise can be reached, in the sense of chat being a more orderly and benefitious place for the wikia. Being stricter in matters that leak over the main site, so the chat's nasty things don't spill all over the place, seems like a necessary measure.

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Welp, I basically said stuff that makes me want to shut down chat and keep chat at the same time, although the 'shut it down' side took more of this post. Yeah, neutral leaning towards support