Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-3437898-20140925032507/@comment-3571790-20140925032937

I don't really see how removing the chat will automatically make us become more productive on the wiki. We'd just lose a lot more users who come for mostly the chat, and when you take into account all the pointless forums nowadays, removing the chat for that reason makes little sense. People used to use talk pages and blogs as a form of communication, either for regular socializing or to discuss editing, wiki-related topics, and others. The chat makes it much easier to do both of those things, and also to interact with multiple users at once at a rapid pace. Removing it simply because of counter-productiveness (even if the chat can be productive and isn't the only thing on the wiki that is counter-productive) and drama (which I assume was mainly caused by two users' opinions coming out, for one evening, and I assume everything will be back to normal within a matter of days; also add the fact that drama can happen anywhere at any time, nothing unique about it here) makes little sense.