Two users engaging in conversation when no one is around is now considered a bannable offense! Wonderful! It's like I'm forced to talk to myself to not get banned!
@Retrosaur No, two users generating noise in a normally active chatroom, solely for the sake of annoying other users is a bannable offense. If you two want to keep acting this way, make a separate room.
@Johann You have been annoying a great number of users in this chat, that at least I noticed. I'm pretty sure something is going wrong here, but I'm not acting without knowing the full background
I won't speak for him, I have no clue what's happening, but a bunch of users are spouting completely useless drivel as to what is considered "disruptive".
If you want to find out something then stop chatting "STOP BEING DISRUPTIVE YOU ARE THE MOST LOW DOWN PEOPLE" and solve whatever problem there seems to be
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For everyone that doesn't know it, if you click on the user you can select "ignore this user" and won't see their posts anymore. That might be useful in this situation
@MadScientist That is true, but often if a user is annoying everyone else, it's better to deal with the source of the problem than to have some subset of the users ignore that user
@BrianBallsun-Stanton repeatedly posting nonsensical crap, hitting the spam limiter with constant 'jks', forcibly trying to change the conversation, many other things
@kalina So if you have a meta post with guidelines and rules then it's trivial to enforce. If you want the mods of sister sites to come in and make a call about disruption... it's rather harder.
So take this to your meta. Get community consensus.
@kalina Your moderation team is asleep now, probably. We don't have 24h service. And this whole thing has a rather long history that is necessary to know to act appropriately, and I haven't read the whole transcript of the stuff from yesterday
@murgatroid99 No, actually. It should require community building. Especially if you have a community. Creating explicit and intentional norms is part of keeping that community alive. Making your intentions and expectations clear can help set boundaries.
@kalina The part from today is not suspension-worthy alone from what I've seen. It could be in combination with the stuff that happened yesterday, but I have mostly heard about that and not read the transcript.
@kalina Because there were multiple flags on chat. If you all could then bring up a meta saying "look, X.Y.Z is a problem according to our community" we could fix.
I understand hesitation, but at this point, you have two new users and on the other side a whole lot of people who ask for an action. That's not a call that should be stalled and pushed to meta.
