# Main AFK cloaky thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Player Features & Ideas\ **Created:** [June 21, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/main-afk-cloaky-thread/4731 "2017-06-21T03:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5011
**Author:** ![Daichi\_Yamato](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/daichi_yamato/32/252995_2.png) [@Daichi\_Yamato](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Daichi_Yamato)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/main-afk-cloaky-thread/4731/5011 "2019-05-11T01:28:48Z")
> [@Hillbert\_Alexis](#): > > And yet, if you remove local you remove part of the community, which you know, is one of the main (and flawed) arguments as to why the cloak isn’t the problem, it’s the player. That player should get more friends they say, sure is hard to strike up a conversation if local becomes null and void as a place to talk, doesn’t it? No one is proposing taking away chatting in local. Not that many people talk anyways. > [@Does anyone notice nobody talks and local anymore](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/does-anyone-notice-nobody-talks-and-local-anymore/157620): > > So I’ve been on several different ice Fields lately just doing my thing with my barge and my orca doing the normal 07 nobody talks and local anymore it seems to mind you this is an HS nobody seems to use it anymore for a communication tool I was trying to strike up a conversation the other day and nobody seems to want to talk at all also I noticed nobody’s salvaging anymore it’s just me.? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/main-afk-cloaky-thread/4731)._