User blog:Imosa1/How important is chat

So, question. How important is chat to being part of this community. Since I've been here I've been on chat, but it wasn't until recently when I realized how central chat actually was. It started with noticing that chat was the only way to send a private message and now that i've started my service, Imosa's Emblems, I'm notcing that a majority of my requests are comming through chat.

Personally, I'm liking chating less and less. Not this chat in particular, just the whole concept. Things aren't permenant and easily accessible. People stumble over words. I experience this in lots of similar networks, chief among them are the IRC channels that I hang out in. This isn't really surprising though. In general it's a quick and dirty fix for when formal conversation isn't possible. I just think that it's not the only form of contact people should be using.

With the beginning of Imosa's Emblems I'm finding discussion on the actual wiki to be a lot more valuable. It keeps things in line and Recent Activity lets me see what everyone's up to much faster then fishing for info in the chat.

Anyone else feeling this way?