Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140704200351

So, if you have been following the chat recently you would know how much drama has been going there. For those who are not familier with it, let me explain. The Chat lately seems to be divided into two groups of users, each with their own ideas of how the chat should be run. Both groups have conflicting beliefs and quite frankly usually will not handle any compramises. Some of these issues are, Criticism of the mods in the Main Chat, and what is & isn't acceptable to talk about. As I explained, the chat has two groups in it which believe in different things.

Often, rules are discussed there and fights frequently break out between these two groups, where huge arguments happen of which rules should and should not be valid. This leads to a large amount of animosity and drama towards different users on the chat.

Now, the point of this Forum is a possible solution to this issue. A Chat shutdown for two weeks. Now, I will explain why I believe this might help the chat and the whole site in the long run. One reason is that, the feuds between these two groups of users go extremely deep and possibly beyond simple disagreements on how the chat should be set up & run. There have been multiple attempts to make peace but almost all of them have lead to failures, due to this. A possible way users could calm down and think of a more open solution would be a break from the chat. Since with it on, arguments & conflict wil just keep arising keeping these issues going.

Now, I really like the chat, I think it is a fun way to interact with users, and just to have a good time. But how much fun can we have if there's drama, gossip, and conflict literally 24 hours a day seven days a week? It is that common, I could go as far as to say once a day some incident happens which disrupts the chat, atleast! But as I explained above, if we let people calm down and let feuds possibly settle we could have a fun, drama free chat back. Which is at the end what we want. The Chat is meant to be a place to talk with other users about different topics, not to get in constant arguments. So, even if you did enjoy going and talking to other users, think about how good it could be drama free.

I got this idea from the Creepypasta Wiki, where they have a chat that recently became full of drama. It got to the point where the main site was being disrupted by it (kind of like what's happening here, since Admins now have to watch the chat and multiple Chat Feuds have lead to completely pointless CT threads), so they tried a shut down, and it stopped the drama, once users started going on it, the disruptive users either calmed down or left. It was like just resetting everything, and to be honest with Wiki's chat could benefit from something like that.

So, what do YOU think? Am I full of crap, or do I have a good point with this? Leave some comments to talk about why.

 