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

Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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
Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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)
If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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

Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.

Yesterdays General Chat

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– 335K 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

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.

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