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
Wait, there's a vote to get rid of General Chat? I vote NO. Why would that even be a consideration? Lol.
Interesting stories. I have some friends who are avid cyclers and something I've recently been learning about the sport is there's tons of crashes and bad injuries. Like, just in the past year there's been at least 4 serious wipe outs between these two guys. Kind of blows my mind.
I know it's not at all the same, but as a young teen I would constantly bike all over the city on a 10 speed, probably 20 miles a day (I know cyclists do dozens of miles a day when training) and can't recall a single accident outside of stunt related stuff in my even younger, BMX days.
I guess I was extremely lucky. Or these two are extremely unlucky. Probably both, I'd guess.
GC issue stems from the following :
https://greatawakening.win/p/17rmJSChvv/coming-soon-possible-balancing-s/c/
Hope you're OK. I would listen to Presto to ease your pain.
Dang. Guess my two friends are just unlucky. Thanks for clarifying, heal up!
No they wanna just make it into a weekly chat. This way longer discussions can take place and people can get more eyes on the stuff they post there. So if something doesn't fit as it's own post, people post there and it gets more visibility..I think what's happening is to many off topic post and then people complain that it doesn't get visibility on daily chat. So they are working to fix this
I saw the big thread on it after posting here - actually came in to edit my OP. Nice summary Slechta.
I posted my rambling thoughts on it on the big thread. My gut, based on how I've seen Daily Vs Weekly play out for near 30 years is to keep it daily. Weekly threads tend to get too disorganized for casuals, such as myself. I personally love the Daily vibe we've cultivated, even if it could use more engagement.
That said, I see the mods angle about the low effort shower thought stuff clogging up main. I think it's misguided, personally. But I don't have to spend countless hours moderating a war zone, so I'm willing to roll with it.
Best case scenario, we GC regulars put in a little more effort to help make the Weekly work, and it turns out to be pretty great. Hopefully GAWs traffic is low enough it doesn't turn into a cluster-f.
I will miss the feeling of a Daily Verse, or Song, or Recipe, etc. but hopefully we keep those rolling.
Yes I think it will take a little adjusting but if we work together and all put In some effort I think we can make it into something special without losing that special vibe we currently have. God bless you fren. Love you. Hope all is well with you
Why couldn't a weekly one be used for the same thing?
You can always delete the original thought if it gets to annoying for you. Or even just respond that you don't wanna chat about it any longer. Realistically how much engagement on any one topic do you think you will get. Your complaint seems like something that is a smaller issue then what they are trying to fix by changing it. So it's a tough balance but to me makes the most sense in the long run
Fair.
They can serve the same purpose my fren. I think in the long run it makes the most sense based off what people are seeking, what they complain about and what the mods mission for this site are.
In truth it's what the general chat has been meant for any ways, now it's just gonna be one post for the whole week. Not really a lot of change. Honestly we need people to engage with other more..many complain there post don't get engagement but don't give that extra effort to engage with others. We need to be a team.
God bless you fren. Hope you have a blessed day
I like the daily too.
My vote, don't get rid of the daily.