User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/New Community Central Chat Guidelines Announced/@comment-6548012-20170505104606

Oi kith, it's good to see some attention going into the chat, perhaps the change in guidelines was necessary, but mate, I'm afraid this may not quite cut it&mdash;If the only thing that can be brought up on the Community Central is Fandom-related topics, it's going tæ be pretty hard for new folk to get going around, which I'm not sure but I think that's not the point of the Community Central's endeavour, in fact I'd say it may rather be the opposite, unfortunately. Certainly, we're avoiding controversial topics, dating and whatever the bloody seven hells is going on at times, but we're also stripping the chat of its prime feature, which was sociabilizing, and well, somehow people spilling their lives over the chat kinda help with that. I'm not saying there's a bad choice done there though, it can be dangerous to let people do that, especially given the lack of care that is sometimes given to underage users and by underage users, so that's quite understandable to want to keep out of it... But by keeping out of it you're giving it a chance to grow further out of control so I don't know here.

Concerning the chat though, there seems to be quite a viciousness to the way guidelines are applied and decisions undertaken, an unintended one, but one I'd rather not speak of here because that's not the topic and also because most people don't really need to know that either.

All in all, tee-el-dee-ar, what I'm saying is it's a good idea to take matters at hand but gripping that branch a little too hard might break it, aye.