User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/New Community Central Chat Guidelines Announced/@comment-5956954-20170506052346/@comment-5811199-20170507075224

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

The guidelines have always been pretty open ended and allowed chat mods to define because it's hard to be specific and strict with the exact topics allowed or not allowed. In some ways, the new rules open up more possible "on-topic" conversations, and has also closed off some other disruptive behaviour that fell in the grey area of Chat.

I agree that there needs to be more moderators and Staff are always open to suggestions. I am one of those who live on the opposite side of the globe but scarcely visit Chat - so I'm one of the guilty ones! But yes, with any sort of change, there needs to be a greater level of moderation to facilitate chat.