I did not see that question in September 2023, when it was posted - but it was bumped again by a new answer.
> Would perhaps a separate room for "user's news feed" be a better place for this activity?
I certainly would have no problem with a separate room for news. (I'd guess that this room would occasionally need posting something to prevent it from getting frozen - which is likely one of the reasons why some links to news have been posted here in the past.)
For example Arqade has sevaral rooms - there is a main chatroom and the room called "This Is Fine" is intended for the news.
The person that posted that also has strong objections to YouTube videos showing previews in chat even though that is by design and wants people to change how they post the links so that they don't show.
And they objected to making a request on the main meta to work on changing that behavior and instead to change how they posted to remove what they didn't like
It would be nice if there was more chat in here though I think this room would just be frozen if it wasn't for the links
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Arqade chat seems like it has normal activity so it makes sense for the split. If this chat room started getting used more I could see a split as well
Admittedly, I am the main contributor in that room.
In Agora, I have occasionally posted links (at leat partly) to prevent freezing. And I considered posting something with actual content slightly better than just some random message saying that I want to prevent the room from freezing.
It was similar on Sports - and on that sites we had a discussion that it might be better to have a separate room.
To be honest I would be happy if conversation in here picked up and it was decided to move the links to another channel. In fact when the person who made that thread decided to join here the links stopped and conversation started. However they eventually left when they didn't like the way the conversation was going as well as the suggestions to fix the issues that they didn't like.
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Overall my real problem was that someone who didn't participate in chat was looking to change the rules on how chat worked without even attempting to reach out to the few people who used it.
I should say while I did get inspired from Martin's postings, my intention was clear. I would post few things that I liked, not in some sort of neutral way of reporting because I am not reporting! And of course, to avoid unfreezing might have been second priority.
Mostly I would stay at Ten Fold, which remains way more quiet and lazy. Then I found these rooms.
When they first posted their query at Meta Politics, I was curious what the stance of the community was (after all, I am not in the Politics.SE community).
But the later reactions coming from uhoh seemed to be bit of myopic. There was never any sort of proper interaction or that there was even effort to make it here, which is ironic.
At first, I thought it was the particular choice of words I used for the speaker (which I agree didn't sound right and flagging was the correct response). But the issue was on simply another level and they were miffed on something which was non-existant. So, no matter how constructive we could be in our responses, a failed status was always inevitable.
When JoeW tried to assuage the situation via proper dialogue, they alleged some "dictatorial" imposition. What to say. I have seen enough, Selucus!
