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Martin Sleziak

06:02

in Homebrew, Jun 26, 2019 at 0:00, by Feeds

This room has been automatically frozen for inactivity

in Lumenati, Mar 18 at 0:00, by Feeds

This room has been automatically frozen for inactivity

in The Exit Node, Mar 29 at 0:00, by Feeds

This room has been automatically frozen for inactivity

All three instances mentioned above are like this: The "main" chatroom was frozen after the election chatroom was created.

Clearly, nobody was missing those rooms - and they weren't too active. So this definitely isn't very important.

But if some moderator has some free times to spare - parhaps the situation where the only room associated with the site is the election room is not very optimal. So from this viewpoint, unfreezing them seems like a reasoanble action.

Journeyman Geek

@MartinSleziak woof

@MartinSleziak unfrozen all three

Martin Sleziak

Wow! Thanks!

Martin Sleziak

06:56

It is rather minor thing - so I don't think that something like that is likely to get implemented. Still I have asked on Meta Stack Exchange: Should election chatrooms have a different status when pruning/freezing rooms?

Q: Should election chatrooms have a different status when pruning/freezing rooms?

On smaller sites there isn't too much activity in chat - so it is not that surprising that if an election room was created, the "main" chatroom1 often gets frozen (since it was inactive for 14 days or more). As a consequence, after the election the only room associated with the site remains the e...

Journeyman Geek

@MartinSleziak I would rather a "never freeze" flag

Martin Sleziak

I think that there were some discussions along the lines of "never freeze the main chatroom" - probably several of them can be found under that tag frozen-rooms. But I am not sure whether I saw a feature request exactly like what you suggest - to have possibility to make a room immune to the freezing script.

For example, there was this one: Exclude the main chat room from automatic freezing/deletion.

> I'd suggest a feature to allow moderators to explicitly protect chatrooms that would exclude them from these automatic freezing and deletion routines so that discussions appropriate for this forum have a place to go.

I have included a mention of this into my post.

Journeyman Geek

If there's work done on chatrooms its certainly something I'd push for