Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5732937-20130524065621/@comment-3387274-20130529093232

ok, just to clarrify about the privacy issue, sometimes people say things on chat they do not want remembered. it might be banter, or maybe they were a bit tired and just didn't think, or maybe they were sort of joking and on the internet it looks more serious than it was meant.. there are hundreds of reasons why this could happen.

On the wiki proper, it's not live, so you have time to plan everything your going to say. And if you change your mind you can go back and fix it before too many people see.

On chat, you don't have that planning time if everybody is talking at once, and you can do nothing to edit a message you have allready sent, except white out the window if everybody leaves.

Most of the time people won't screenshot such things, so all record will be gone in little more than an hour. But if there's a permenant record then it's here forever, and anyone can read it any time, and all of a sudden anything you say could come back to haunt you at any time, and you can't do the slightest thing to stop it.

In short, there is a difference between things people are comfortable with anyone reading, and things people are comfortable with everyone remembering.

Between this, and the fact that there is nearly always a mod on hand, and it's a friendly wiki that doesen't really have trolling issues, I'm strongly opposed to the chat bot.