Board Thread:Script Suggestions/@comment-1251315-20150626123140/@comment-24473195-20150627135136

SuperSajuuk wrote:

Dessamator wrote: I don't think such a script would be a good idea. If a moderator wants to speak to a user in an "official" capacity they should do it using public talk_pages or walls, if not then the user doesn't have to communicate with someone (even an admin) if they don't want to.

There should be a level of privacy at least in chat.

Besides a user can also code a client side script to block the message anyway.

P.S. Your feature would also violate the TOU, "blocking functionality of the site". A level of privacy should not mean that you block all moderators from contacting you. It's bad form to prevent any moderator from talking to you, and not all issues in chat should be posted to a talkpage either. And the whole "blocking functionality of the site" tends to be quite liberal with Wikia and is not always set in stone. I disagree. If you don't want to interact with moderators/admins in privately chat then you should be able to ignore them. That's what private chat means!

You're only looking at it from a "policing" perspective, which doesn't make sense. Chat is an entirely optional feature for the users and the wiki itself.

To put it another way, what if moderators insult and abuse users. Given the temporary nature of messages in chat it means that any complaint is not enforceable either by admins or staff. Allowing blocking is the only reasonable way to make chat a feature people can use without fear of being disturbed.

In fact, in my opinion, private chat should operate using a "white-list", which allows only people you want to communicate with.