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 integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its 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
Whered all the engagement on this forum go? Seems like the population here all died suddenly.
Alot of some of the most prolific Q post researchers we had here have been banned for getting into tiffs with mods.
Not going into details here on what happened it's not really relevant or helpful.
But suffice it to say when you lose content pillars like that, there'll be less engagement.
Unfortunately it's resulted in a kind of stagnation without them, where we're relying on Qcelebs to meme about instead of analysis inspired discussion.
The majority of the most prolific users I followed here anyway have moved to Truth Social as their primary Q discussion app.
We have amazing mods I'm not trying to insinuate any foul play.
But this problem will also likely get worse without a significant discussion on why this happened in such abundance if we want them back.
Which maybe we don't want them back I don't know.
I'm only bringing it up because it's a trend I've noticed here that's gotten more and more significant over the last year with many users I followed here no longer posting as a result -- sometimes for related reasons not all bans.