Thread:ScottyBlue/@comment-8072-20120418014640/@comment-3462718-20120420014418

Yes, but we weren't online at the same time. When you are online at the same time as another person, it seems ridiculous, and, again, rude, to be forced to wait 20-30 minutes between posts - hence the moving to another site to avoid causing trouble and bans. But if new users want to do this, and ask us where, and we aren't allowed to tell them, what should we do then? That's mainly what I'd like to know.

As to instantanious responses being required, I agree with you that they aren't most of the time. But that's not the point. You see, I am a young adult like you are; however, most users on here are much younger than us and may not have constant access to a iphone or computer (when I was a teen, 20 minutes every other day or so was it.) This means conversations, even about how-to instructions, may span the course of weeks (this literally has happened to me before I found the Fanon Characters Wiki) if we can't move somplace. But the main issue under discussion here is not the talking; it's not being allowed to move someplace else if the user happens to be new.

Furthermore, your assumption that everything is "clear enough", even after I've reported to you that I've been asked for help in certain matters, is a bit illogical. If people are still asking for help about something, sometimes after trying to read the rules, (Yes, this has happened more often than you would think) IT"S NOT CLEAR! The manual is worded clearly, I'll give you that; however, certain minds (especially younger ones) just don't grasp things the first time, or at all, when they're in long instruction format. I see no harm in someone new asking for one-on-one help and being given it on the spot, even if we do have to move someplace else to do it. That is the only time when I defend chatting. No, it's not a necessity; however, it is a convenience, a helper, and a way to be nice to people who need assistance. That is all I meant, and that's all I'm asking about. As I've already mentioned, the only site I linked to is not hurting this one, because I'm the only one who contributes on a regular basis; sometimes 3 or 4 days go by and my edits are the only ones there. All it is is a place where we Fanfic writers organize our stuff to be put onto this site in the future. So it's really doing no harm, in my opinion.

And for the record, your obtusness about the analogy was a bit illogical too. Analogies are based off of generalities that people will recognize; just because one or two smaller, lesser-known pieces of the object being used as an analogy don't conform to the generality does not make the entire analogy wrong. For instance, a common analogy used is that rocks washed for years in the ocean and up against other rocks become smooth (an analogy for how troubles in life shape us and make use beautiful). Now, not every rock becomes smooth in saltwater- some break and become sand, others get barnacles and coral growing on them and make them lumpy. But the generality of what happens most of the time is what is used in the analogy because it's what people recognize. Anyone who goes to national stores such as Walmart, Sams, Dollar General, and so on, would instantly recognize the cart analogy. One regional store being different does not change the fact that in most stores, you have your share of selfish people who leave carts rolling all over the place, right? Please don't be so determined to prove me wrong you stretch things like that.

And, also, you proved my point with the Aldi thing anyway. Like I said, the CEO didn't bluntly tell people to "Keep the carts in their place or get out of here"; he, like those who hire people to go get stray carts, ADAPTED to meet the issue. He just just in a different way than most store owners do. And attempting to adapt to meet the issue is what I and other users are trying to do when we get potential chatters to move someplace else when they want to talk to us.

All this aside, what I mainly wanted to know is ''how do I respond when a new user says, "Where can we talk", if I'm not allowed to link to the Fanon Wiki? You never did answer me.