Board Thread:Admin Announcements/@comment-5843134-20141204032248/@comment-5857520-20141205165510

Adoption, as you put it, comes with community consensus not a Team of Admins operating outside the community as a whole setting what policy will or will not be. If policy is set by a few without consensus of the whole and activity drops, where does the problem lay?...Probably within that entity setting policy.

Chat removal was a mistake. There have always been periods of lull in chat followed by major activity but, it was there for that purpose all the same. Bannig of Users from chat on an infinite basis is also wrong. Granted, some have deserved it in past experience but, for the most part having Mods in chat with that power made it unpleasant. Chat rooms were then, establish away on Skype, to open discussion on a free basis then, bannings began happening from those rooms as well.

"Forbidden" may have been the wrong word on this point. When you receive warning from Admins in a private chatroom, to drop a certain topic of discussion in chat because they may not wish it discussed at a given time or an article concerning the subject posted, it gives Users the impression that you are not so open to discussions about policy or anything else for that matter only, obeying them without recourse or response.

Lothian 1 (talk) 16:55, December 5, 2014 (UTC)