TBH, I'd give it a while. Emotions are heated, people are mad- I'd recommend t the very least, wait to see what your moderators say (those lovely folks you elected) before starting a new room.

I'd like to start by saying I'm an avid user of chat. There's only one organic user who chats more than me (and of course, smokey, but smokey essentially shouldn't count). I understand how important chat is to the social fabric of the site - I help run a main site chatroom that's considered by some to be pretty well behaved.

I also spent two days in your chatroom. And while a handful of folk are the most noticeable, I got the impression the room was going to be extremely difficult to moderate. Yeah, there's a few specific toxic folks, occationally moderators coming in and being mad at you guys, but at the end of the day, its the roomwide culture. Things went too far because no one went "Hey, this isn't fine", or if they did, they weren't listened to. I mean, with multiple flag events over time, there had to be a tipping point.

And I've found that even minor incidents on chat are pretty messy for moderators to handle. This is... huge.

So guys, please spare a moment for your moderators. They'll likely be looking into it, and trying to contain the damage and working out how best to balance the interests of the folk involved.

TBH, I'd give it a while. Emotions are heated, people are mad  - I'd recommend at the very least, to wait and see what your moderators say (those lovely folks you elected) before starting a new room.

I'd like to start by saying I'm an avid user of chat. There's only one organic user who chats more than me (and of course, Smokey, but Smokey essentially shouldn't count). I understand how important chat is to the social fabric of the site - I help run a main site chatroom that's considered by some to be pretty well behaved.

I also spent two days in your chatroom. And while a handful of folk are the most noticeable, I got the impression the room was going to be extremely difficult to moderate. Yeah, there's a few specific toxic folks, occasionally moderators coming in and being mad at you guys, but at the end of the day, its the room-wide culture. Things went too far because no one went "Hey, this isn't fine", or if they did, they weren't listened to. I mean, with multiple flag events over time, there had to be a tipping point.

And I've found that even minor incidents on chat are pretty messy for moderators to handle. This is... huge.

So guys, please spare a moment for your moderators. They'll likely be looking into it, and trying to contain the damage and working out how best to balance the interests of the folk involved.