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
Was just feeling the spirit of gratefulness for this community moments before reading this post. Thanks, I can piggy back with a +1.
As my life gets busier and browsing time shorter, I'm increasingly thankful for GAW. For one, the sticky rotation has been on point for YEARS and when time's a crunch the stickies are almost always a perfect 10 minute summary. Just awesome.
General Chat hums along and is always my first internet stop of the day - sometimes my only Internet stop - and always brings an uplift, and sense of connection to what others are experiencing. Just enough "flavor" to get me back on my feet and grinding. I do dearly miss rooftop though. Blessings, sis.
On to the point of time, the mod team has also been killing it with detailed ELI5 summaries in many of the big posts. Bubbles in particular has been cutting through the chaf and offering answers to pedes' questions that are above and beyond the call of duty. It's a blessing and a time saver. Much appreciated.
And catsfive consistently broadsides me with a really stupid-smart meme that will make me groan and smile. The recent one with the Pepe knife being sharpened on the whetstone of NPC faces was so dumb looking, I was in love.
Anyway, yes, love you all. WWG1WGA. Hold the line, normies are needing our Lights more and more. o7