Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24376429-20140317195106/@comment-24419286-20140317214607

Warning: I will be covering a lot of topics about the wiki so if you're lazy, read the first 3 paragraphs and skip to the end.

Alright, so it appears to be a recurring theme now that you try to destroy the chat as if it were physically hurting you. Now, from what I understand the only reason you're doing this is because:

A. It's distracting users from contributing to the wiki more

B. It causes pointless drama

C. "Useless" people are occupying it

So, I'm going to carefully lay down my personal opinion as to why I believe the chat should not be removed (This is a very dangerous operation when up against other opinions)

This, is a wiki. The site says "Collaborative communities for everyone!". You seem to think that every user that does not contribute to editing as often as you always do are useless (You said yourself that anyone who doesn't contribute is "A waste of bytes and space")

Now, I agree that a community is all about sharing and contributing, but it's also about communication and understanding. This wiki is dedicated to writing short horror stories, meaning that to grow we need as many writers and editors as possible, but that's not the only jobs we have to make this a better community.

We have moderators to make sure users behave, we have admins to appoint new jobs and make new rules for the wiki, we have bureaucrats to watch over the entire wiki, the users who contribute just by reading and commenting forums and creepypasta or making blogs, even smaller contributions like editing small spelling mistakes or reporting bad pasta. Some users don't even do shit but talk in the chat but even they're doing something. My point here is, all the users are important because they are all helping to make it better in some way, unless they never edit or comment or even join the chat they are still important.

Anyway though, back to my original point. Since we're a community we need understanding, agreement, communication. Most of the users here use the chat often most of the people I know in it are still editing, or retired, and just because they're not editing anymore doesn't mean they didn't do work for the site.

The drama.

There is going to be drama. When you get a room full of people to talk freely about things you shouldn't expect things to go perfectly, I see why you would want to stop a heated fight, or aggressive religious/racial/fandom arguments that involve bashing, a touchy subject or anything that happens to offend a lot of people (and not only yourself) but taking down (or at least threatening to take down) the entire chat for a weekend/half a day just because of an argument that different groups of people had over a pretty big topic.

And last but not least, the chat. Before I strayed off topic I was trying to say that since the users use the chat for various reasons, not all of them edit all the time. Some are retired, others don't want to, others edit often. My point is a large amount of people use it for talking to other users about the wiki, random off topic things, themselves, creepypasta and anything else. So it's not pointless.. And god this took me a long time to write.