hello, is there a good starting point (tutorial) regarding using chat rooms?

I started here: chat.stackexchange.com/faq

how can I invite other users to the chat room? will an @username do it?

is there a chat ** cheat sheet** available somewhere?

@badp but why is badp marked as a mod in this room?

@JSBᾶngs Mods are always marked as mods.

@JSBᾶngs Instant chat needs instant moderation. The more eyes on your flags, the merrier.

@KitΘδς Cross-lingual or not, it's been used since at least Elizabethan times.

If a goatse gets deleted when it's way off your screen, why would anyone care?

@badp yes, Reg said once that flagging in chat triggers some kind of system-wide alarm claxons

You've already had to endure it.

@badp If a man speaks in the forest and no one is there to hear him, is he still wrong?

@JSBᾶngs When you get 10k network wide rep you'll see them too

@KitΘδς He is, but he's already done all the wrong he could do.

@badp i have 10K network rep

i have over 40K network-wide rep

Then you should've seen numbers build up on the top left hand corner of your avatar.

@badp i think i've seen a bright red chat notification maybe once

That must be it.

Click on it to see the flag and vote on it, no matter where the flag originated.

(AFAIK)

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if so can they be listed into the FAQ? Probably the "do I have to be nice" section.

that way I won't make the same mistake twice.

@MattEllenД I don't think so

@badp don't think they're auto flagged?

@MattEllenД yup, I rather think other people flag those words on sight.

@badp ah. ok. Thanks

I used swear words liberally on other, more lax communities before I had a diamond and rarely ran into problems.

Obviously YMMV ;)

Fair enough. Yeah, I wasn't expecting it :D

Also, once a post is flagged, it's for all 10kers and mods to see

so your mileage begins varying extremely

yeah

Just realize that given that this is instant chat, we need to do instant moderation, even if it means getting it wrong... instantly.

:-) no worries