User blog comment:1dra7/My Change and Departure?/@comment-1844926-20130216122501/@comment-1874924-20130216185639


 * And most of us do not act in real life like we do on the wiki

If I'm reading Dra correctly, he seems to think that's part of the problem. The theory (widely known by the acronym GIFT) is that people think that anonymity gives them license to say things that they'd never say if they had to put their real names to it.


 * If you want to make a serious argument for chat, argue for both the negative and positive, por favor

I don't think Dra meant for this to be a debate; and even if he did, he has no obligation to make the opposition's case for them. His whole point is that, for him, the wiki's negatives have come to outweigh the positives.

That said, I really can't say whether Dra's attitudes toward chatgoers' behaviour is valid or not, since I rarely go on chat (and when I do, it's often as not to PM someone). So while I do know that some people have been trying to tone down swearing and family-unfriendly subject matter on Chat, I can't speculate on how successful they've been. I can say that, the last couple of times I've been on Chat, people have urged each other to tone down the swearing because I'm there, the logical inference being that they're inclined to give it free rein the rest of the time.