I kind of like the status bar when it's being used for it's actual purpose. You know, posting your current status. Maybe a small joke here and there. But the problem is people use it like a chatroom. Even when it doesn't devolve into fighting, people having a nice civil conversation on it defeats the point of the status bar and pushes actual statuses down. Also leads to people not checking it and thus missing news. I use the status bar to post if I'm gonna be away for a lil bit rather than making a ton of OOC posts, but that could be buried under other people using it as a chat.

I'm not sure if it's people used to forums having IRC, or people completely unused to forums and missing the discord at the top, but... It is what it is I guess. And I mean, I've definitely used it to reply to someone else's status once or twice so I'm not entirely blameless either lol.

I think a lot of people might tell you they actually [i]like[/i] seeing the drama on it, though :lol

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A troll’s gonna troll, Bro. You remove the status bar, they’ll find other avenues for trolling, such as posting “venting” threads, are we going to remove the ability to post threads too?

What I personally wish is for people to stop feeding the troll and just ignore them. Your attention is exactly what they want.
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Actually there have been vent threads in the past, but understandably they were locked after a certain point and I believe they aren't allowed anymore? Not entirely sure on that.
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Edit; oh I forgot to add, as far as if I think it's [i]hurting[/i] the community - I say no, because overall it does show that people are active on the site with just a quick glance and possibly lead to growing the community. Obviously you could check the actual RP sections and see that but for anyone just peeking in, the status bar is right there. But I definitely understand the concern when said people peek in and see an active mess lol, which leads back to your last point about moderation. It's tricky.