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General chat room: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I hope the new chat room succeeds. It's a great way for users to discuss the site or just have a relaxing chat with each other.
In order for the new chat room to succeed, though, users will have to ...
NullMod
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How come our main chat, Mos Eisley, got frozen this time?
A year and a half ago, I froze Mos. We don't need to rehash that again here; the linked discussion covers it thoroughly. At the time, we (the employees of Stack Exchange) were of two minds as to ...
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Was Shog9 reprimanded for his use of bad language here?
Pedantic answer: we don't know.
Reprimanding normal users for bad behaviour might take place in public or in private chats/messages.
Reprimanding moderators for bad behaviour would usually take place ...
Rand al'ThorMod
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What to name our new main chat room (or keep it as it is)
Leave it as is, I'm happy with the name:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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General chat room: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I wasn't in Mos Eisley at the time of it being frozen so I may be wrong about this but I feel a big problem with Mos was its attitude towards flagging. Many users insulted flaggers as cowards and had ...
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first who, second why
You were suspended for posting inappropriate content by a mod who has been entrusted by the powers that be (read: the community team) to make that judgment.
In my opinion, it was merited. And for ...
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Can I have discussions in the comments of a post with users who are suspended from chat?
Mainly, no
Comments are not for discussion. That’s why we can flag comments as, for example, “too chatty.”
You can respond to questions and statements that users make about the question itself, but ...
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What to name our new main chat room (or keep it as it is)
Ten Forward
Clearly, the last room was too much of a wretched hive of scum and villainy. So let's name our room after that more civilized establishment from that other major sci-fi franchise — ...
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General chat room: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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.
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Why was I banned from chat?
People can be banned from chat for one of two reasons:
one or more of their messages is flagged as rude or abusive and the flag is validated by other users;
they are temporarily suspended by a ...
Rand al'ThorMod
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Do we want to continue having a main site question feed in the general chat room?
I think we should move the main-site questions feed out.
Because the ratio of main-site questions to chat activity is so high now, having that feed makes the room look even deader than it is.
If ...
Rand al'ThorMod
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Looking for a third room owner for (Mos Eisley) our chat room (Update: Found!)
I nominate Gallifreyan. He seems pretty level-headed, is in the room regularly and I've not seen him get involved in any drama.
Gallifreyan here: I would be happy and honoured to help keep our ...
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Why was I banned from chat?
Because they do things where a temporary ban in the appropriate response, most often coming in violation of StackExchange's "Be Nice" policy.
I recommend you read it, but the full policy can be ...
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Looking for a third room owner for (Mos Eisley) our chat room (Update: Found!)
I nominate KutuluMike.
He is a well-respected user and in my experience has always shown good judgment. I am confident that he would treat others fairly along with being helpful as I have ...
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Looking for a third room owner for (Mos Eisley) our chat room (Update: Found!)
Ixrec
Solidly decent human being, a true Mos regular, and a head so level that carpenters use it as a guide when they build stuff. During my own brief stint as temporary room owner, he was a ...
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What can we do to make our new primary chatroom as interesting as our old primary chatroom Mos Eisley?
Do it yourself
I'll start off with this quote:
Be the change you want to see in the world.-Commonly attributed to Gandhi.
Honestly, if you want to make TREU interesting, then all you have to do ...
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Looking for a third room owner for (Mos Eisley) our chat room (Update: Found!)
I nominate nobody, since that tends to not turn out well, but I propose to add more than one room owner if several nominees receive more or less the same score.
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General chat room: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I think that SFF can survive without a primary chat room for a week without significant negative repercussions.... it hasn't even been 12 hours. I strongly recommend that this room be closed in ...
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How come our main chat, Mos Eisley, got frozen this time?
It's not a complicated answer. Users known for being troublesome in the past continued to be troublesome in a room well-known for troublesome behavior. As such, the decision was made to ban the ...
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What can we do to make our new primary chatroom as interesting as our old primary chatroom Mos Eisley?
Something that I've noticed about the new room (and I was only in Mos for like a week before it hit the fan) is that it seems quieter. I think there are a few reasons for this:
Old regulars got ...
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Looking for a third room owner for (Mos Eisley) our chat room (Update: Found!)
I nominate Skooba
Very level headed and is a great mediator. I can't count how many times his was the voice of reason when I was active in the chat room. I think he would make a very good room owner ...
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What to name our new main chat room (or keep it as it is)
The current name is fine
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is fine. While it can't satisfy fans of all science fiction and fantasy franchises, the same was true of our previous chat room, and ...
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Why is the general discussion chat room not the first in the list of site chat rooms?
It's because you're on the "Active" tab, where the chat rooms are sorted by activity. You can see that the Quill's last activity was 6 minutes ago, and the Restaurant's 5 hours ago.
There are other ...
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Do we want a feed of bountied (featured) questions in Mos Eisley?
Go ahead
It can't hurt and it only adds a few extra notifications per week.
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Is there an interest in dedicated SciFi and Fantasy chat room?
No interest at all, and I need to meet the 30 character limit.
This answer is rather meaningless and only added to satisfy my OCD. I'm interested in how many people would use the room; it's obvious ...
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General chat room: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Just my 2 knuts.
People posting here might not necessarily know me, but I think I can call myself a Mos regular of the past few (~6) months - apparently, to a point where people were even willing to ...
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Do we want to continue having a main site question feed in the general chat room?
We just need to chat more.
But seriously, the last couple of days, I've seen enough activity in Milliways (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) that the main feed isn't the sole source of ...
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Why is the general discussion chat room not the first in the list of site chat rooms?
Seems to be status-by-design.
You have the "active" box ticked. This means the first room to show will be the one with the most recent activity.
Keep in mind that many other SE sites do not even ...
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