Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-3437898-20140925032507/@comment-5008588-20140925224828

More edits are done with chat on, people find themselves (me for example) look for edits while on chat along with users like Candy use chat to get help with edits. The only time drama really happens is about once a day and usually gone withen an hour if it goes on longer it could last for about a day or so. Chat is also made to bring non-topic conversations that are not available via blogs and other things as we mostly only considered things to be sonic related.

Chat brings PMs where people could be talking privatly without any other way of doing so. I.e. If I wanted to talk more about an anime that involves s*x I can't simply say it here or on Bulbagarden (as an example) I can't say what's on my mind with the other fan. Not saying  PM's are for this purpose but it brings more freedom that we can't say on a normal basis, it also allows us to swear in PM. If anything in PM goes wrong we are able to report the other user or bring a mod/admin into the convo to take care of that PM.

Chat also allows us to talk with many users at a time and a fast response. If that was removed then we will no longer be able to do so. Along with the drama thing, we have more good and funny conversations than we do with it. Just because Fly pretty much insulted several people and the wiki then abused his powers is not a good reason, it's one small thing.

The wiki has not matured that much, and I think more problems can only be caused as we can only make Sonic only blogs and some people hate talking with message board/talk page (me included, which is why I use skype as an alternative or ask users to meet me on another site).

As the last thing to say, Chat does create the problems you have states Free. but they can be resolved easily like we have done to Fly. The only other things I find as a problem is annoying users (espically those who never edit and come here to roleplay (in PM or main chat) YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE), and we can't just ban or kick users for being annoying.

Best current solutions: Temporary removal not perma, readd the edit rule and program so users who don't have enough edits can't get in, or leave chat as it is.