User blog comment:Monkey.D.Me/CHAT FOR THOUGHT/@comment-3986064-20120116135020

I think the chat has rather become the center of attention on the wiki. I have already decided to leave blogs. Only interesting ones I still see at times, but don't normally comment nor do I write those essay long comments. Mostly because there aren't topics that intrigue me and because some blogs have been deemed as banned topics, which is a little stupid. (I think my last long comment was referring to this on one of the few blogs MoM ever made)

The chat is the only place on this wiki where you can have a private conversation with someone. I find it rather enjoyable to spend my time on the chat. It is sometimes even an improvement to discussing certain projects, helping others in other ways as well and also having a little chit-chat.

The main chat I agree is always random and mostly stupid, but it is also the place where most of the fun on the wiki appears and where you can laugh all you want and just get rid of all that stress. And it's kinda my duty to make calm down some people from destroying the "relaxing" so-to-say chat. Such as banning spammers and even trolls, although we have a lot of them.

The people that really work don't come to the chat when they want to edit, DP leaves when the chat gets boring or doesn't wanna relax anymore and just edit stuff. So does PX, Levi, JOPF and even MDM and me lately, unless I wanna discuss what I am working on with someone in pm. It might decrease productivity, but productivity comes when you truly want to edit and not do half-assed jobs.

Indeed socialization is an important thing as well, some people would do only that and I find it normal. That way bonds form through the wiki community, but also bounds are shattered, because the stupid behavior of some is shown. (I curse the chat for making me lose my respect towards you MDM)

Basically the main chat is just the easy-going place where you have fun and make projects with your friends, even bad ones such as invading other chats. And if I catch ANYONE OF YOU EVER SUGGESTING SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVEN AS A JOKE, YOU'RE OUT FOR A WHILE. It can increase the productivity if it's oriented in the right direction.

If I were to describe the wiki as a human body, then the images and articles I would compare to the exterior appearance. The interesting blogs and forums and talks I would call the brain of the wiki and the chat and every other types of blogs and the chat as the heart and soul of the wiki, Whilst the community are the lounges, tongue(and also other talking organs), ears, eyes and blood of this wiki. Because with the tongue you can talk, with the ears you can hear, with the eyes you can see, with the longue you can breathe oxygen and with the blood the oxygen gets transported to the parts of the body. Everything is essential

And if anyone has a problem with the chat, it is most likely because you have no idea how to close the chat and see the rest of the wiki

I think that's all I have to say, if I find something else, I'll add it later