Roulette wrote:After all, a site's activity is mostly seen through the chatbox.
I have multiple issues with this statement:
1) In Forumotion-based forums the cbox is only visible to people who are registered, meaning that unregistered people cannot be persuaded to join by showing them an active cbox, simply because they cannot see the cbox at all (and people who are registered don't need to be persuaded that th site is active via cbox, see point below).
2) A site's activity is mostly seen through the amount of active topics. People join roleplays in order to roleplay, so if they are starting to lose interest because nothing is going on from an IC standpoint, I doubt an active cbox would persuade them to stay. Conversely, if the forum is healthy and bustling with activities, with lots of stuff going on and lots of people to interact with, people will be happy regardless of how active the cbox is.
3) I enjoy chatting as much as the next guy, but there are times when I don't want to do it. And in those times, I don't like to be forced into it against my will for the sake of what, by your own admission, essentially amounts to a promotional campaign.
And you of all people, Remix, should be very well aware of how little the chat actually matters. Until not long ago, even as recently as last week, FTRP enjoyed a regularly crowded, active chat, with 10 or more active members at any given hour. But what was actually going on in the site? Power struggles and quarrels between auths. And the chat itself reeked of the same toxicity, with people taking out their frustrations on other people. Ultimately, those issues killed (or severely injured, at the very least) the forum: did the active chat matter at all in avoiding that? If anything, it made things worse.
TL;DR, there are two possible scenarios:
1) The site has no issues. In this case, there is no reason for wanting to artificially inflate the cbox.
2) The site has issues. In this case, artificially inflating the cbox won't solve them. Again, FTRP (whose cbox was NATURALLY bustling with activity, without these sheanigans) is the perfect example of this.
In both cases, the auto-join accomplishes nothing, unless you consider annoying people an accomplishment.
EDIT: after Axel chastised my pushy way of presenting my arguments in topics like these, I put my best efforts in being less pushy, but I am afraid I failed miserably ;-;
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