Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1526346-20170930150055/@comment-1526346-20171013111316

I know its been over a week, but here goes.

CC Chat should not be used for social networking. There are other places to go to socialize like Twitter, Facebook, or whatever new fangled thing is out there. It is supposed to be there for people to get quick help not to chat about nothing.

The second rule of Community Central Chat Guidelines reads as follows:

"Be on-topic. Community Central Chat is a place to find wiki help and support, and to talk about FANDOM. Avoid off-topic conversation and don't disrupt the chat. If you want to talk about other topics, there are many other wikis and chats out there."

The third rule of Chat reads as follows:

"Be helpful. Make sure to pay attention to other users and keep conversations constructive and on-topic. Feel free to offer help if someone has a question, and take off-topic conversations to private messages. But remember not to take on the role of a moderator. The chat moderators who are present in chat can handle issues that arise!"

So how is allowing off topic conversations being helpful? It is the opposite of being helpful. Take those conversations to the proper place, social networking sites.

Fandom is a network of wikis, not a social network. You want to talk about some video game, create a hashtag on a social netowrk, and chat there. Leave Community Central Chat for those who need quick help with problems that may be time sensitive or not require a full forum post to get answered.

There would be greater quality editors in chat if it were used as it was intended, a place to get help. It should be unacceptable for the following to happen...

"...some of these important questions that are asked in chat can sometimes be neglected to be answered."

That is not good policy and should be discouraged at every opportunity. And again, this is not a social network but a network of wikis that anyone can edit.

When editing falls to the wayside in favor of socializing, there is a big problem. Lady Aleena (talk) 11:13, October 13, 2017 (UTC)

To further this goal, I would suggest the following:


 * 1) To chat, a person has to at least have one edit somewhere.
 * 2) Remove the emoticons from chat.
 * 3) Require users to speak mostly in full words, so no Twitter-speak or 1337-speak allowed. (The occasional LOL is okay, but spell out you, your, and you're.)
 * 4) New chat rule: The language of the wiki is the language of chat.
 * 5) * If there is no wiki in the language, strongly suggest the user contact the staff and request it. It should also be suggested that the person translate the Chat guidelines for the wiki in the new language.

That's all I have for now, but I could come up with more to make Chat better for those who need help. Lady Aleena (talk) 11:24, October 13, 2017 (UTC)