Talk:Suggestion/@comment-141749-20170206022951/@comment-35182244-20170211130454

Right, I think this has gone long enough. I was the original creator of that Discord channel for coordinating staff and editors during Summer 2015 until I left. DJ has a point, option 1 has worked all this time for the past half year ever since we went there and I would love it if our users simply joined the global community. The options provided here, as Tsuba said, is not what we discussed either, it is not unbiased.

I originally intended to open it to the public a year ago, but recalling what happened to the Skype group we had going HEAVILY off topic and incurred users who couldn't behave unsettled me and I decided against opening it to the public after Summer 2015. So instead we funneled people from the wikia chat to the reddit managed global KC Discord, where I too spent time and socialized as I used to do in the Wikia chat. Over at the global KC Discord they have a lot of channels and managers, more people dedicated to handling socializing than any of us can spare with our already thin numbers. I personally welcome the fact that I didn't have to divert extra manpower to such tasks when there are others who can do it, are already doing it and are vastly more experienced than ours.

Our Discord channel was supposed to be for work only, with a small area for socializing with the rest of the staff, but that was not the primary point. Imagine it as a FOB (Forward Operations Base) during events. You do not just let everyone into a base like it's a tourist attraction. People work there, and they prefer the privacy. This was not what I intended it to end up as when I established it originally. Go with option 1 if you can. It's a place for admiral's without borders such as I, where we do not care or judge you from which community you came from.