User blog:Benkarnell/Time to drop Chat

The TSPTF Drama page is getting repetitive. Hateful talk on Chat, drama on Chat, misbehavior on Chat, abuse of power on Chat, factionalism on Chat. I've enjoyed going on Chat since I discovered it (see 2 blog posts ago). In other circumstances, it would be a great medium for what this wiki is supposed to be about, developing settings within the genre of Alternate History. Chat's good for brainstorming and bouncing around ideas. And some of that goes on. But not enough compared to the conflicts and the ugliness, which spill over to the rest of our site and do an incredible amount of damage to our community. Chat does too little good and too much damage to justify its continued existence.

Eliminating Chat won't solve all the problems in the Wiki community. A lot of the nastiness would take place off-site ... as it already is, in places all over the internet. But it would certainly do some good, and would at the very least make it more difficult to engage in that kind of behavior. It's an obvious change that would be easy to do. I wanted to voice my opinion here first; I'm interested in seeing if anyone else agrees.

- Benkarnell (talk) 03:22, September 28, 2015 (UTC)