Board Thread:Administrator forums/@comment-4139585-20141115222645/@comment-4139585-20141126140909

Pros of forums:


 * Don't have to meet up on chat
 * This also means we can talk about things a lot more often
 * Ex: we don't have to message someone and tell them to go on chat to discuss something, we can just post it directly here
 * Chat doesn't have formatting (this isn't really that useful but it could be for some things)
 * Chat is not archived

Cons of forums and why they aren't actually bad:


 * The discussion is public
 * This keeps us focused and makes communicating our ideas to the community easier.
 * Chat is much more informal and more prone to joking around, which won't happen if we know that everyone can read what we are saying.
 * Non-admins can join the discussion
 * Yes, but we'll block them
 * If you get annoyed by this, too bad
 * It can technically happen if we meet up on TEE or wherever, so this isn't a very good argument