Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-27028390-20150130231609/@comment-4189499-20150131015248

3primetime3 wrote: Imamadmad wrote: It might not be a Utopia, and arguments will still happen, but at least we will have a record of what people say so there's no "he said" "she said" going on, making it much easier to police these arguments and get people not involved in the argument to make judgements of who is or isn't in the wrong in cases where blocks are involved. This will make it easier to solve these arguments and return to peace faster.

I guess, but chatting about things will get really inconvenient. And screenshots usually work if something big comes up. ...unless the person is kicked out of chat before they could take a screenshot. Also, I would argue that it is more convenient to chat in the forums than on chat.

First off, not everyone in the conversation has to be there at once, helping to chat with people from separate time zones.

Secondly, different conversations can happen in separate threads so you don't get the confusion of having 5 different conversations happening at once.

Thirdly, if you need to go away for a while and then come back, you can read all the happened in the mean time as forums don't blank out old messages.

Fourthly, you get a notification of new messages within the same window so you don't need to sacrifice your editing time to see if anyone's posted something new on chat.

Fifthly, you don't have to spend so much time and interrupt your conversation every time a new person comes on to join the conversation; if they want to join, they just jump straight in, otherwise they are free to just hover from the sidelines without feeling like they're disturbing anyone.

Sixthly, forum posts give you the chance to write your post and check it without worrying about holding up the other person or having them interrupt before you're finished.

Seventhly, chat is known to be full of bugs and constantly crashing around the Wikia network. It's not a very reliable way to converse, let us say.

And finally, I have already described how much easier it is to prevent arguments.

So how can you possibly say that chat is more convenient than threads?