User blog comment:Benkarnell/Time to drop Chat/@comment-14510343-20150928103930

Removing chat won't make people not fight, or be in factions, or have negative opinions. They'll just take those opinions elsewhere, into talk pages for example.

And the majority of people actually use chat to chat. Not to mention chat has been a major use for attracting or helping new users.

If you have a problem with some of the fighting on chat, you could always help regulate it. After all you are a brass. During the recent problems with the admin Crim a member of brass was the one thing that we really needed for example.