Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20141107202502/@comment-25932182-20141107204330

I personally oppose your opposition. Allow me to explain why.

I support the existence of a public log. It is important that the community has the ability and right to look back at previous discussions so as to catch up or to just find a previous segment to quote or otherwise, and to use this tool responsibly. I would like to think people have the maturity to not spark arguments over things in the log; Indeed I personally have yet to see a heated argument break out in public over an incident found in the logs (though this says nothing of possible PM disputes; If these have happened then please say so). I also personally do not feel any sense of "paranoia" from what I stated publicly that is preserved in the logs, and strongly oppose your theory that they are in some way "detrimental" to the stability of the wiki. I am as well, to be honest, a bit wary of the idea of "private" logs; Accessible to who? When? How? I feel that if made private and accessible only to a few, this would alienate a lot of regular users and even create an atmosphere of distrust.

As for infobot abuse, I have seen this tired trend decrease rapidly; I've only seen it used once and a while, like for example Tek using "~test" instead of saying "test" when things go completely quiet, and even then that is only occasional. Spam was at one point a major issue, but I hold that is no longer a significant subject of debate.

Thank you for reading.