User blog:Parax./Reminder concerning chat

This is a reminder to the wiki concerning chat.

Recently, users have been trying to get in chat without the required edits. When they are told that they need 100 edits, 50 being to pages, they suddenly begin spamming the recent changes with comments/replies to old pages, even though their comments serve absolutely no purpose (example: "lol" on a page last commented on in early 2011). Then when the get to 100, they immediately cease activity and join chat. Then we tell them they need 50 edits to pages, and they go ahead and make unnecessary changes to pages, sometimes undoing their edits afterwards. Sometimes, they will make many edits to one page in a couple minutes, doing what they could have done in only 1. This is known as "bad faith", as you are doing it solely for your own desire to use chat instead of actually helping the wiki. Good faith is about actually trying to improve the wiki for the greater good, not for your desire to socialize on chat. Chat is a privilege, not a right or a gift, so do not ruin it. And since the chat rule even says (Project:Chat)that the edits must be in good faith, we have every right to not count your edits if they appear to be in bad faith.

So, this is to serve as a reminder to users who do this. Please try to help the wiki, improve it, make it better; do not visualize it as just a socializing site. We earned our edits the correct way, so why should you be any different?

Hell, I noticed several users have been trying to get on chat, doing these same bad faith methods… and these users have been trying to get the wiki shut down only days before. What is with the sudden change of heart?