Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an intergral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on it's evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
If anyone has any feedback regarding General Chat please post it below this comment.
I know a lot of people don’t notice, but I just appreciate everything you do around here, bud. You are a cornerstone in this community. GC has been a great addition as well. Thanks again man.
Hear, hear. And a model of diplomacy and kindness.
Tis the truth!
I get where you're going with this and I think it probably does need to happen...
Love the GC thread - it's either my morning coffee or my mouthwash, depending when in the day I get to check in on it. So first of all huge thanks to BB for the dedication - my appreciation can not be stated enough.
It seems you already have the Daily Deltas issue addressed. u/dty6 was super gracious about it, and made it very easy to solve. Good on him. For the record, I had no problem with it, and enjoyed seeing it here even though it's absolutely not my "thing". Hope he continues to post it in its own thread and it does well. That's the dilemma with daily posts - we tend to take them for granted until they're gone. That's a shame, but it is also a reality. I personally appreciate people who have the fortitude and focus to take on a daily task like that - it is absolutely not my personal strength. 😁
As far as u/uk9994 and his contributions, that is much trickier.
I've read and absorbed others' thoughts, though if a definitive consensus has been reached I missed it.
My idea is that it's perhaps best served for UK to consolidate all his links for the day into one comment. Perhaps slow down a bit and currate "themed" comment threads of relevant links when applicable. Personally, it doesn't bother me to see multiple threads by one author, but the reality is it does inevitably lead to others tuning out the GC thread as time goes by. That's just the way web forums, and attention spans, seem to work. I have 30 years of observation on the subject and have been guilty of the same behavior myself at times. 😅
Anyway, it's cool you are all working on this together, maturely. Again, GC contains some of my favorite "family oriented" content not just here, but everywhere I check on the internet. So much love and respect.
WWG1WGA
Thanks fren, happy to know GC has become such a big part of GAW!
As for uk - I think that problem just resolved itself.
I took a month off from posting/commenting to kick off the year, but I still read GC every single day! Thanks for making this a fantastic place for frenly frens to hang out!
u/#paw
Sorry about uk, I know you did what you could for everyone in this community, including her, but I guess it was inevitable.
You can only do so much. Sadly some people see tolerance and kindness as encouragement to push the envelope, shame.
Hi fren, thank you for your kind comment. For the record, it's ma'am
https://youtu.be/RJHctyXPmkg
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Thank you so much for posting this, it’s very clear and concise, and will continue to bring tidings of Joy to this thread, as it should be doing. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You are welcome, fren.
What do you think about the daily deltas being posted here? If I post them in the thread they get lost, and some people like to look at them. You tell me what you would prefer.
One of the challenges here, (IMO), is finding a good balance between quality and quantity. Volumes of posts get posted each day, which is great (you have an active input vibration), but volume of posts does not always translate into quality of posts.
The upvote/downvote function is the primary mechanism for increasing quality by highlighting quality content and lifting it into prominence, but it's not always the case that quality is upvoted and mediocre quality is ignored.
However, once you begin creating threads to circumvent the volume / board sliding nature of the (new) board (which is what using GC for such a purpose would be), it creates a more convoluted post structure.
Some of our contributors have nice tags next to their handles which make them pop out.
I'd like to see a tag for the pede posting the daily deltas on a regular basis, to help make them stand out a bit. Flairs also help.
It's true, I began posting it there so it wouldn't get lost; but you're right;,it does circumvent the upvote downvote function, which is how the discussion should be driven. And then if there's any discussion on the deltas, that should be on the regular board. So I'll try it on the regular board. There used to be a mod who would post them and then sticky his own post and that was really the way to go.
I love the daily delta's!👏
I been meaning to tell you to post it as a separate post. If there is anything notable we can sticky it, otherwise we can just leave it as a normal post.
okay no problem, i can do that.