User blog comment:Agent Spy/My thoughts on the wiki/@comment-26010708-20140327042040

Here are my thoughts: Yes, this is a wiki and articles are a main feature here. Although to be honest, this place wouldn't be /fun/ at all without chat. You say that you can receive bragging rights, but who would there be to brag to? Other people with the same bragging rights?

The thing is this; This is a community based wiki. The wiki runs strong off of the community and the community is in chat and blogs. Not articles. This place wouldn't be much of anything without chat and blogs.

As for the chat bots? I must say I find that to be a useful feature that we /should/ implement.

And demotions/promotions? Well, for the demotions part I disagree. Well, I disagree with demoted inactive users. As that would be completely pointless as the pose no threat and it would just be frustrating for them if they ever decide to rejoin.

And yes, you can't really blame the excessive chat mod count on us; Well, you can't /now/ for the /newer/ mods. But if you /do/ have a problem with some of the older mods (Say if they aren't obeying the rules) you can always talk to an admin about it. Or if you don't think some of our mods are good enough quality to be mods. You can talk to us about it.

I don't think our CM team really has a problem with strictness as a whole nor leniency. The fact is each mod and modett (XD) have their own unique way of modding the chat. Some people choose to be strict, and some people choose to be lenient. It really depends on the person, the time and the day. This can't be fixed as easily as one would think. If we decided to start enforcing strictness most people won't find chat that fun anymore (Even if nothing has really changed, people will perceive it as if something bad has happened).

Personally I don't believe the admins should have secretive discussions as it feels that we're hiding from the community and are afraid that their views will skew our views. Even though that's sort of what /should/ happen. Or at lease as a whole, as we need to follow what the /community/ masses want.

Oh, and for the chat bot? The kick command is totally useless as the chat mod could kick a user themselves. :P