Rachel

So I'm going to respond and summarise the reasoning behind it's removal. I would like to make it clear though that, even as someone who likes you all and can see the funny side in most of the things, it's getting a bit fucking boring now. It's pretty much the same people every time who get up in arms about every little thing that is either changed or not changed and the way they go about it is to demean others' efforts and pull off their QQ in a satirical and obnoxious manner rather than just asking about things and actually giving a shit about anything but their own amusement.
Yes OB shouldn't be 'safe spaced' but at the same time it's taking things semi seriously that has allowed our community to continue and have a solid core, a group of people online who actually have a sense of community to them because there is some structure. Ironically it's the people who used to stand for that structure and helped build a lot of it that now seem to dismiss it and disregard it because it doesn't suit the nature they have become that now insists on using Outbreak as their outlet of aids and grouped entertainment. For all I care on TS, among people who have had the chance to grow to know each other and whatnot, things can be a lot more relaxed - people can enjoy this community in their own way without inflicting upon others or leaving their shit in places that are for all to see all of the time permanently. This isn't to say you can't have the odd joke or that this is a 'business forum', but the forum has never been for complete shitfests and excusing shitposts in the name of 'forums are dead/boring' is just pathetic and is honestly disappointing when I know the same people could make creative, decent threads which allow for entertaining discussion and content.
Directly addressing the chatbox then. To bring in the argument of 'safe spacing' is irrelevant, when comments were made that staff felt were out of hand they were dealt with. For people in the know some of the contents is just what you would expect from TS and group chats in regard to baits (which can actually be established on the forum through the PM system, if you really wanted it) - however for people out of the know or new to OB it comes across as a toxic mess and bickering (to put it lightly, and this can be taken from people questioning me about 'what were people arguing about'). Typed messages on the front page of our website which literally became the exhibit of the most aids parts of OB, and a lot of it was stuff that OB has never and will never actively facilitate and enable just so people can 'let it out' - we turn a blind eye to it sometimes on TS for the jokes, but otherwise people who feel the need to be so cancerous have no place in this community.
Another section of the contents of the chatbox was the gifs/images/ascii that were spammed. Although the odd image was fine, the amount that ended up being loaded (along with the chatbox itself) made the forums very slow for the average user. The ascii images/text images that spread up the page were overused and generally aids, filling the chatbox up with anything other than 'chatting'. These aspects just didn't help the website and just added to the impression that came off from the chatbox.
The only parts of the chatbox which weren't complete aids were the odd cheeky exchanges (which were extremely rare) between people (that could easily take place in group chats that already exist and PMs which have always been there) and the odd links to things that resulted in a brief discussion (which could have actually been made into a thread if people put a tad more effort in to create some forum life instead of being hypocritical and posting aids instead). Now it can be argued that 'just moderate the chatbox' - but the point was that pretty much the entirety of its contents wasn't wanted and also we shouldn't have to create another platform to be moderated, if nothing within the chatbox is appropriate for what we want on the front of our forums then it's just going to be removal not moderation. There's also the argument that it could have been moved somewhere else or along those lines, but the general consensus is that would make it lack luster to the point of being pointless. Even on other forums of other communities the general perception is that it looks messy, unnecessary and certainly doesn't fit on a main page - whether the contents be aids or just lack luster.
The decision to have the chatbox gone is final and there are plenty of reasons why (though I probably missed out some while rambling on). My main issue now (and I did speak briefly to individuals about this and they somewhat agreed) is the way a group of you handle yourselves every single time you disagree with something. You act provocatively, making demeaning comments, satirical posts and harsh comments in public eye and continue in a manner that makes it impossible to take you seriously while at the same agitating/demotivating quite a few members of the staff team. It literally comes across as individuals who once put effort into this community having expectations for what they can do while completely disregarding the efforts of others (even if they do require critique or complaint, there is a way to handle it). Sure suggestions and general server issues belong on a forum, but when it comes to people or people's decision and dissing them as part of your complaint then it either deserves a mature chat with myself or Conor about it or a clean fuck off then. It's off the back of this that I want to make it clear, continuing this discussion and future discussions in the petty, trivial manner that has constantly happened over this last year or so will no longer be tolerated. We're always welcome to suggestions and feedback, we try make OB better for everyone as a whole - but if your entertainment and complaints come at the expense of others or have a complete and utter disregard of what people put into this community then you have no place in this community as far as I'm aware.
If you wish to discuss this further (chatbox or how people act) then feel free to message me either through steam, forum pm, whatever. This response will be the last to all the numerous spam, 'satire' shit threads and will end the discussion which has actively revolved at picking away at the people making the decision rather than the decision itself on the forum. We can all make OB - forum, TS, servers, community - a better place if we just have a tad bit of consideration, it's not a lot to expect from anyone.
(Also I know this is very long, but the way OB has been lately about everything required a somewhat lengthy response).

At least the newcomers will know what they signed up for

what the fuck eraser, you don't hit headshots?

Gotta be honest.  I respect that you are going to be blocking people for insulting you over what you have stated above, however I do feel you that you ask for a lot of it yourself.  You not only troll constantly, but people have witnessed you being toxic in the past, not the mention that your name is friggin 'Sniffles'.
 
Please...use your brain.

Happy birthday Unseen, you cuck!  

The people want it, answer to the people and give them what they rightfully deserve! BRING BACK DOWNVOTING!

ARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS THREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD  TRIGGERING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME

Tbh I think this is dead now..
someone cheated, yeah they are a scumbag but honestly who cares now it's old.

Keep it to Aisha so we can question your gender

Nice mouse mat weezy

Nice mouse mat weezy

Nah, that's more likely to be my name, people will just get confused. Ayyyyy  

for anyone who wondered what kriss edited...
 
'me and hades have our first baby' was removed by him

Fluxy can no longer perform in any cs game without smoking 3 blunts beforehand, any gather attempt must be preceded with a warning to fluxy to smoke his joints - flicks will follow
Gaffer has had another kid, first one was eaten by zeus
After the assassination of conor, pepe has delved into months of overt depression, eventually fleeing outbreak 
cheesepuff finally gets moderator
In a miraculous turn of firsts, Moderator CQCOD makes a post on the forums, and lupha plays his first game of proper cs
Sovman has been VAC banned 
Rachel turns 9, at the big birthday bash, chris lord drinks too much and cheats on jess with meg
With lewis back at university, brandon has deranked down to high MG2 / low MGE
 

I joined for 5 minutes saw the whole T-side literally full of mods lel
 
Cya gibby and gl in your new community!

ENOUGH SAIAD

Hello. I knew I recongnized you from somewhere. I were correct!
I found this picture of you. (I hope you don't mind me sharing it.)

 
Welcome to the forums.

So you like giving birth 2 diamonds?
Never knew you were a female daimantt

So you like giving birth 2 diamonds?
Never knew you were a female daimantt

Dj parkinson's robbing outbreaks bank here

Done :^)
http://imgur.com/a/FaV1a

https://gyazo.com/bc8c4088768bf839e6ef1d1743158943
https://gyazo.com/ec682f8c2e1f691df930fdc60d420866
https://gyazo.com/1b2871b0a44686ad813dd35db2eebb00
Those 3 are my favourite imo  

I think whatever it is it'd be cool to incorporate a multitude of game(modes) because that is what the community has become.
Problem with that original video is it limits the intro to jailbreak -though we were playing many other games at the time too.
Outbreak is a gaming community where we can all play diff multiplayer games together, that's probably what a lot of solo gamers are looking for, a bunch of chill people who they can play many games with in a group.
Could have some sort of video of funny moments with scenes from:
-Surf, Jailbreak, Competetive CS, GTA, AOE, l4d2 etc.
Obviously if the main goal is populating the servers stick to something surf/JB based, but the above idea would get people involved in TS, forums and an influx of members.
 
How it'd work:
Now this is obviously a complicated idea, and from years of playing jailbreak and realising how hard it is to just get 14 people organised into two teams, it is probably unlikely. But with enough coordination, and choosing people who are known to not be retarded, it could get done. 
(presuming there is no rush to get this video done, since the last one was like 4 years ago)
Sunday 28th August:
7PM-8PM: 10v10 on the Surf Server (Speaks for itself)
8-9PM: 1 Hour of Jailbreak (3 wardens, 17 prisoners, swapped out each round to give everyone a chance at wardening)
Sunday 4th September:
7PM-8PM: 2 gathers on at once
8PM-9PM: 1 hour of AOE (2 or 3 separate games, recorded by one separate event organiser)
Sunday 11th September
2 more hours of 2 separate games of whatever community sees fit
 
All of the above is recorded by some kind chaps who are organising this event, with the teamspeak communication (KEY)
 
 
-This would give us hours of footage in such a short space of time, but provide a valuable insight into how our community operates, most likely provide lots of funny moments, from a variety of people in Outbreak. It's an idea striving for more OB-naturalé rather than the common scheduled event like the shown example, which personally I find too fake and cringey, albeit funny.
-At the end of the session - gather for instance, 2 or 3 funny scenes from each game and make it into a short 3 min video with some cool background music
-Games are obviously open to change, create a strawpoll of perhaps 15 games which you think OB plays the most, then have the option to vote for 6 games which will be played over 3 weeks.
-Benefits of both sets of games: Jailbreak and surf - everybody in one game, other games - 3 different games going on at once, tripling amount of funny shit to happen
-I highly doubt nothing interesting will happen, with 20-25 people playing 6 different games for a total of 6+ hours, but worst comes to worst and we're lacking a bit of footage, and shift in some of what we've already got from gathers or W.E
 
 
TL;DR
-People sign up to this event, saying which games they have and are willing to play (as not every1 got GTA etc)
-Over 3 weeks, play the games which our community specialises in - have it recorded with TS comms
-Make all funny shit into vid
-???
-Profit
 
 
Pros:
-Gets a MASSIVE amount of people involved
-Loads of fun, what we'd do on a normal day anyway - but more special :))
-Would be awesome to watch after
 
Cons:
-GL getting this to happen with OB average IQ of 55
 
 

Just some stuff that i thought was funny or kinda cool.
Sorry for the AIDS laughs and reactions but whatever.
PS: Sound is kinda messed up, full volume is still kinda quiet. 
PPS: I am fairly amateur at editing so don't hate fam.