Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-3437898-20140925032507/@comment-5925136-20140925212239

Honestly, what more can I say? Having a chatroom here brings more positives than negatives, and even I know that despite me not using the chat. In addition to what was already said above, it's also a convenient and more productive way to allow non-Sonic-related discussion. If this Wiki completely forbid discussion about other topics, then things would get boring around here. And if some of us wanted to do so, we'd all have to go to Community Central's chat, (nothing against that place mind you) if we didn't want to break the rules. And that is simply inconvenient. Socializing on a chat is definitely more productive than doing so on talk pages (and especially blogs) anyway. It clogs talkpages and the Wiki/Blog Activity logs with nonsense and leads to an overabundance of short, useless threads that our moderators have to hassle themselves taking down, whereas posting in a chatroom does not. I mean seriously, would you rather have unrelated discussions and socialization all in one chatroom, or scattered around through hundreds of talkpage sections and blogs?

Another flaw that comes from going through with this? The fact that the chatroom is also a good way for newer users to ask for editing help easily. On most of the wikis I've been on, new users tend to create a userpage, maybe make a few flawed edits, and then find their way into the chat (if the Wiki even has one to begin with) where they get to meet members of the community and learn to edit properly, making them better users who are more likely to stay. If we were to remove that element of the process, then it makes it harder to help newbies get into the Wiki easily. In addition, what's with the excuse about users only coming here to chat? Sure, there probably are a good chunk of them who do, but I come here every day to check on things, and from what I've seen, there's always something being edited, and by a good number of users too. So that's really not an issue and certainly not a reason to remove the chat completely.

In short, I'm completely against this proposal. Say what you will about me not even using this chat and thus not having a justified argument, but I still stand by my opinion. I know that removing this chat will most likely get more people pissed off than happy anyway.