User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/New Community Central Chat Guidelines Announced/@comment-6548012-20170505104606/@comment-5811199-20170505114222

Community Central chat has been having a lot more of the controversial topics as of recently, and the old rules didn't cater for the variety of harsh, uninviting and sometimes violent conversations; they were hard to control and there were a lot of grey areas that users tiptoed in.

These new rules are to reinforce the original purpose of Community Central Chat. CC mods and admins really want to see chat as a more productive and friendly environment. The new rules are not founded on trying to restrict users - they are to support returning users and give new users a better taste of what Fandom is.