User blog comment:Bond em7/Chat...Again/@comment-5879271-20131001172310/@comment-1613839-20131001182026

I removed part of your post because I don't want to point fingers at any particular people in this instance, or get the fighting started again here. Responding to what's up above...the problem is that it's not just what happened last night. I regularly (as in usually once a week) get someone coming to me showing me a chat log they've copied, and see that these problems are occuring regularly on chat. I had a long talk with Jisk about it, and determined that on chat we really have no way of stopping these sorts of issues. Other places on the wiki we can temporarily ban people, give warnings etc, but on chat we can't always be there, and issues seem to arise on such a regular basis that obviously something needs to be done. Given that we can't monitor it constantly (and honestly wouldn't want to), but that issues are coming up regularly that we need to address...we honestly couldn't think of another solution. If anyone has any ideas, I would be more than welcome to listen to them, but there's a problem on chat right now including both regular users and people on the admin team that needs to be addressed. Since we couldn't think of another solution, this seems to be it. Now, do I like the idea of shutting down chat? Absolutely not! As I stated above, it's a great tool for our wiki, both talking about wiki stuff and getting to know people better. ...and as you see in the other comments below, a lot of the administration doesn't like the idea of shutting it down either...but they also recognize the problem and are willing to let that happen if that's what it takes to solve this problem. If this were a single isolated incident and I were shutting down chat, I would agree it would be a massive overreaction....but it's not. It's happening often, and needs to be dealt with. So, if anyone has any ideas how to address this problem, feel free to let me know on chat (<--ironic). However, the only soultion I currently see is people following the rules that have been set up on chat, or shutting it down as people refuse to follow them.