Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-27028390-20150130231609/@comment-4189499-20150131232817

Let me divide this reply into sections: Blackbird625 wrote: The chat allows you to speak live with others and roleplay very easily. Why would you roleplay on people's walls? How would you easily play games that are usually in the chat?

Extremely easily. Just replace one dialogue stream with another with a page refresh showing neww replied. More people can then participate and the roleplay won't have to stop because somebody needs to go!

Also, the wiki will not be as "fun" without the chat because many people like to chat with others, not just edit the wiki 100% of the time. About 50% of my time on the wiki is spent on the chat. I've spent at least 50% of my wiki time chatting with other users. Can you guess where? That's right; in the forums. It has allowed me to generate good friendships with the people I edit with without excluding those who live in a vastly different time zone. Don't you want people from Oceania, Europe and the Americas to be able to talk in the one conversation? That is very hard to coordinate on chat!

Lastly, if the chat were removed, I do believe that some people would leave. If the chat were in place, there would be dramas, but as Olaf said, those are easily solved. A problem with the dramas is that the people causing the dramas wouldn't let it go. If they let it go and would accept the fact that they were rightfully punished if they were, which rightful punishments occur like 95% of the time. It's just that the people who don't let it go make a big deal about it, which causes a huge fuss across the wiki. Well if people can't accept a legitimate change to stop all this "wiki war" stuff I keep hearing people talking about, especially when there are so many alternatives that they could use, then maybe they should either learn to be more flexible or find somewhere else which accepts their rigid ideas. I am just so sick of coming on every once in a while and having to see somebody writing a blog post apologising for starting fights on chat about some unknown thing, or having users getting angry and shouting about how they don't want to start Wiki War 3 or whatever. It just seems that all these problems, while maybe not being caused by chat, are definitely being aggravated by it.

That is why, starting in about half and hour, chat is going to be gone for a short 4 day period. If things don't work out, then chat will be turned on again after the 4 days and we will leave it on. However, I do believe that if people give change a try, they will be happy with the results!