Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-1458758-20140403173008

Yeah, I'm with that guy on this ^^^^

Honestly, it's been a handful of weeks since we put the chat box into action. I used it on the day and it was good craic, but you can't always find everyone and we don't exactly have a strong sense of community here in order to utilize it as well as others. That's something that will take more time.

But that doesn't change the fact that it is a resource for us. Just like the forums and the talk pages. Omni said that opening it was a means of getting people away from the forums so that pointless pages as he perceived them, and, to use his exact words "with draconian rights reserved to close and remove as I see fit"

As much as I respect the guy, the very definition of draconian kinda points to why this is a bad thing.

The way I see it, one resource should not be used simply as a means to distract someone from another. As far as I'm aware, no one is spending money on this site, no one is losing out if we choose to implement it without it being used, the operation of the wikia as a whole has not slowed down to a crawl with its implementation, nor would it if people opened a few less than succinct topics on the forums. Sure, close dead topics or redirect people to an already existing one, but when it isn't costing anybody anything to have them, why are we all getting bent out of shape over their usage?

I'm not saying we turn narutopedia into a glorified facebook community, we can maintain our focus on building the most complete Naruto Resource we can whilst letting people have some room to breath and be people rather than faceless edit-bots. But like Taynio said, that only comes with using the resources we have to the best of their capacity.

If this debate was over a new template format or a streamlined coding procedure or whatever other processes we use to keep this place running, it wouldn't be an issue, but only because it pertains to even the chance of human frivolity is it becoming such an problem here.