Timeline for Toward a philosophy of Chat
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| Apr 17, 2019 at 23:28 | comment | added | user212646 | Chat is comment overflow. If you remove chat, the words will end up on main and meta in the form of comments. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 20:17 | comment | added | Basil | Not in my opinion, but in a mandatorily public and persistent venue, this kind of locker room humor will inevitably cause friction. I'm a better sysadmin because of my relationship with the people in the Comms room, but we don't always have our frictionless facade on around each other, and that's what's needed in public. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 19:57 | comment | added | sbi | You use the words "familiarity" and "bonds" as if they would denote something bad. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 14:17 | comment | added | Basil | You could do that in slack, and then if you ever offend someone in arcade chad, you don't end up causing a bunch of flags and hurt butts. The comms room moved to slack and we still keep an eye on the serverfault stuff from there, and while we lose the stream of new members generated by links from SE, we gain not needing to worry about offending people with self deprecating jokes. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Almo | I hang out in Game Dev chat because I like talking with the people there. Because there's a feed for new questions on the site in chat, it means that a certain number of people who are logged on right now see the questions as they come up. This means some questions get answered way faster than they would otherwise. This is a very real benefit chat gives to the main sites. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 23:04 | comment | added | Basil | The examples you mention could be covered by simply making chat available to mods only. And the rule of moving to chat for long comment chains could be removed. The UI hides a lot of comments anyways so the back and forth ones wouldn't get in the way. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | user213963 | While they are the problem that is here, disabling such an otherwise critical piece of the stack exchange software (what happens when discussions occur in comments and need to get moved to chat? how do moderators chat with specific users?) this suggestion is largely throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Turning it all off cannot be the solution. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:51 | history | edited | Basil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 15:49 | comment | added | Basil | Election chat, teachers lounge, mod rooms, etc aren't my target. My target is people that haunt SE chat while asking or answering questions - they're the ones that will inevitably form bonds that lead to offensive familiarity, and they're the ones who start flag wars wasting everyone's time. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 0:31 | comment | added | user213963 | None of the other places have as good integration, actually have ties back into the system, and are outside of the control of SE (so now election chat is... where?) and thus things like Teachers Lounge and private mod rooms would need to be elsewhere... and that causes a lot of problems. Chat is a necessary part of Stack Exchange today and how the various communities function - just some people don't appear to be able to handle that level of maturity needed. But that isn't reason to shut it all down. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 0:23 | history | edited | Basil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 13, 2015 at 3:38 | history | answered | Basil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |