Okay- I'm suggesting it as an option for several reasons. Personally, I could take it or leave it.
You will get threads with several factions within the thread. It gets shut down and it was a good thread but a few spoil it.
Those people could be told to take it to chat and the thread would remain.
The other day four separate PF video threads took place and it was a mod fiasco.
I would assume none of the chat would go to search engines and thus PF and thick and thin posts could be a chat only option and eliminate forum sludge and moderation. I doubt PF and other threads will ever go away especially when new members come in
and are initially unaware of the rules.
Now Chat isn't a place for profanity and all of the banned stuff but slightly relaxed and not moderated for
acronyms like B-S here which is not properly enforced anyway. Me and you both know that. I can find 100s of examples
on that here and at other times members get flagged for it.
Plus retaining good members is a positive thing. I have many other reasons but don't want to write a book.
From what I understand the chat license is what
about 30 Euro a year and after that it gets cheaper.
When you login in here you pretty much see everything. If you had to login again to chat, you know what you may see and if you choose not to that's great.
Sometimes we get overly aggressive moderation here and a Chat would allow people to continue on a thread elsewhere
like the Dollar store thread the other day. Even threads like filtration get dicey and are often locked because people get
offended and some have skin in the game.
We could also have a donation drive if people want chat. If not, I would pay the first year if 30 Euros.
Also newbies often get beaten down with threads that you see here a million times over.
Instead of them leaving because they get abused, they could take it to chat and tamer members here could
help them instead of another thread getting locked etc.
