'Baby talk' in chat

[Thaal Sinestro]

I think that, in an attempt to increase the site's user base, you are actually going to decrease it.

If the most active people of the site feel irritated, censored, and trod upon, they won't visit as much. That, and when new members discover that they can't talk the way they want to, they will also be discouraged.

When the motivation of the writers on the site is diminished in any way, the writing seriously takes a nose dive. We've all seen it time and time again, across a million other sites.

Hell, writing went down when you made the background into a Blood Souls joke, what do you think is gonna happen when you pis off 50% of your writer base with chat box (the most used aspect of the site) restrictions?

Before we blow this out of proportion: I've banned two words: 'h-uggle' and 'g-lomp', and I've added a line to the OOC rules asking people to avoid excessive baby-talk in the chatbox.

Still welcoming all opinions. I just wanted to reiterate what this discussion is about.

Big or little, when people feel turned off, they don't write.