User blog comment:Mixer2301/Changes are needed./@comment-4500149-20121215043141/@comment-4500149-20121219030302

Great blog, Mixer. I think we can improve our chat by bringing back the 10 edits rule. I've been a chat moderator for quite a while, so I've seen pretty much everything. One thing I've noticed is that the amount of users with 0 edits, who enter our chat only to swear and "cyberbully" the native users, are much more frequent than the users with 0 edits, who are new to our wiki and genuinely want to learn how to use it. If I would have to estimate, I would say maybe a 10:1 ratio of "trouble" users to new users. There just aren't that many of the "new users who would like to ask for help in chat", as mentioned by Penguin-Pal.

However, despite this weakness in our chat, we have the power to fix it. The set amount of edits required to use our chat doesn't have to be 100 edits, or even 10 edits. What if we agreed on only 1 edit required to enter our chat? Our wiki is a large and popular wiki, so it only makes sense to exercise more control. I think this change can only benefit our wiki's chat. Can we all come to an agreement on this?