Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-3437898-20140925032507/@comment-1669199-20140929224220

SnufflesTheDog wrote: I disagree to ANY of this stuff being removed. Being Snuffles and all, removing these means that the SNN members cannot communicate. Communication is INPORTANT to keeping the wiki true to the source information. Also, talk pages means that people can discuss rumors without using the main page to do so. If chat was removed, the wiki basically becomes troll ground. for example, a perfectly good page (like our profiles) becomes littered with rumors, garbage info and completely irrelevant info. along with that, the original text might be removed. See? I OPPOSE!

How would using Talk pages encourage Users to discuss rumors on said pages rather than the forums? And how would removal of the chat feature turn SNN into a "troll ground"?

"for example, a perfectly good page (like our profiles) becomes littered with rumors, garbage info and completely irrelevant info. along with that, the original text might be removed. See? I OPPOSE!"

Your reasoning makes no sense. Our profile pages were never meant for communication, let alone being used to spread "rumors, garbage info and 'completely irrelevant info'" (one can argue that virtually every single thing we choose to write about ourselves on our profiles is completely irrelevant info to the purpose of this Wiki, yet the option to use a special page to write about ourselves all across Wikia exists anyway. If no one wanted "completely irrelevant info" on Wikia no matter what, then why would User pages even exist in the first place?), and the risk of having content from User pages/Talk pages has always been present ever since Wikia itself was first founded, and by extension SNN. Having the chat feature does absolutely nothing to lower the risk of page content being vandalized -- in fact, I could argue that having a chat room only gives Trolls yet another target on SNN to attack, and would have the advantage of being a public forum with instantaneous communication between participants -- in other words, the chat would be counterproductive towards keeping order around the Wiki. But alas, as far as I'm concerned, it does very little harm towards the Wiki, or any of its members -- if there's problems on the chat, it is usually the Users' fault, not the chat room. The chat room may have rules, but there's absolutely no guarantee anyone would follow them -- and of course the same applies to the rest of SNN's policies.

Anyway, do you understand what I'm trying to tell you? Is there anything I said just now you need me to clarify on? Got any other concerns over the general topic at hand you want addressed?