Here is what I have:

> I believe that chat is an important part of an SE community and that it is important part to have an active chat. However, over here, many members agree that this chat is very "dead" instead. I want to improve this chat and make it much more active. And I want your ideas! How to you think we can improve our chat?

> As a motivation, I do think SE chat can be an important weapon for a SE community. Many times, this is where people can discuss other questions, talk about closing and reopening questions, etc. One example is Chem.SE's TRE, which is an amazing event that I have participated myself, where chat is used as a way to communicate about retagging and editing other questions. This is why I feel that we need to make our chat more active. Otherwise, we cannot harvest the powers of chat! ;)

> So what is the opinion of the community? Do you think that we need to improve our chat? How should we progress? I want to hear your opinions!

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@TanMath I believe you should un-believe that. If you start it like this you have to prove to someone that "chat is an important part of an SE community".

@TanMath very "dead" close to dead

@TanMath Also, you should leave your question to the end and first write up what you're trying to say.

@TanMath This is a nice example, but you should bring it up to prove the usefulness of chat, by saying: "I have seen how chats can be beneficial to the site's quality and content. I do think SE chat can be . . . "

Also, as another example, say how nicer it would be if people readily used chat instead of the comments for longer comment threads where lots of clarification is needed.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. I did want to ask whether you know other examples of the usefulness of chat.. I know about TRE.. TCE, anything else?

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. ok..

Start by explaining: "Chat is a free medium for free conversation, and since we want a detailed library of content, we can't allow chatty comments and the SE spirit fights against those. However, humans are social creatures and they need social casual conversation. Moderation of comments would be relatively easier if we used chat for . . . chatty purposes."

@TanMath BTW Make sure you link to TRE.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. yes.. of course!

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. but i thought the point was to prove that!

@TanMath The meta conversation is gonna devolve into "I don't you're making a point since blah blah blah" rather than how to improve chat.

@TanMath Again, "I want to hear your opinions" is demanding.

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. You there?

@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. fine..

Ok.. @Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. Here is my second draft:

> Recently, many members of to community, including me, have noticed that our chat is very close to dead in terms of how active our chat is. I want to change that.

> I've seen how chats can be beneficial to the site's quality and content. I do think SE chat can be important to a SE community. For example, many chats support the use of "cv-please" or "flag please" to discuss bad quality questions. Many times, members come to chat to discuss about their answers & what other people think. Chat can be a good place to give and get feedback from others. There are other events like Chemistry's TRE and ELL's TCE that use chat to improve questions on the main site.

> Also, chat is a free medium for free conversation, and since we want a detailed library of content, we can't allow chatty comments and the SE spirit fights against those. However, humans are social creatures and they need social casual conversation. Moderation of comments would be relatively easier if we used chat for . . . chatty purposes. By making chat more active, many more people would probably use chat, instead of chatty comments to questions and answers.

> Many times, I am stuck using chatty comments because the user I am talking to doesn't use chat. As you can see, it can become a problem but if we motivate people to use chat instead, it is much easier for moderators and other members of the community.

> So, my question is - Should we go about improving our chat, and how can we do this?