Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8-20190319212423/@comment-5811199-20190325221252

Fandyllic wrote: Some suggestions: We did actually have new users wait for 4 days before joining chat. This did frequently have false positives though - many many users were asking us about why chat didn't work and how they could join. I think this would be more confusing if chat was closed unless a moderator was active.
 * Don't allow chat to be enabled if a moderator is not logged in.
 * Require new users to wait a week before using chat.
 * Give moderators better tools, like a 1-click short block button (3 days?) and quick access a reported users panel.
 * Give users better tools, like a 1-click report button that shows up in moderators panel with last 3 chat messages.

Moderators also have a whole lot of tools available to them. In addition to the scripts on Dev, of which some were made by CC admods, ChatOverlord had a crazy number of features that Mime and I slowly built, which included custom adding/removing filters and a whole bunch of different checks to verify and ping us.

Obviously there are other ways things can be improved that a lot of chats already have and that we can learn from:
 * Slow mode, only allow x messages per second/per minute
 * Deleting messages
 * Muting users
 * Some form of reporting system
 * Different channels so we can separate help and social conversations
 * Delays before certain users can post so that mods can approve/delete messages as they come.

But these would need to be part of the actual interface and not just a JavaScript plugin.