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
We need a crew of 'fact checkers' to screen posts that get popular. Example:
Stickied post by random twatter guy says the EU is calling for it. Absolutely false. He said sauce was Newsweek. I read the article. Not true. Quote above is from the article. I'm sick of fake news even though we want it to be true.
You are the crew. If you see a fake news post, make a quick comment pointing out why its fake and deport it. You can tag a mod, or comment here but with a link.
ok, didn't know if that was too aggressive or felled under 'griefing' mods.
We have very high threshold of tolerance for benign Anons! For the shills, its a different story ;)
FYI: I love it when your username & moderator changes color. Even though it makes me think I’m seeing things🤣
you are, his username isn't changing colors :)
When Moderator is at end of username it does change colors. If moderator isn’t there no color change. Bubbleburst comment below doesn’t have moderator listed and colors are just like everyone else.
Thanks for catching the fake news. I believe that kinda stuff eventually gets pointed out sooner or later. I do worry about us creating a ministry of truth. I think there can be some value to fake articles because it forces people to be patient and verify before they share. Rather then just share everything because it's true. It can play a part in building up people in the way you correctly pointed out. Though I do not think we should make it a habit of posting that kinda stuff.
Agree with you but I think at this point people should be verifying everything. There's been so many fake news that we thought was true but was not. Q even gave a lesson on it.
I agree everyone should seek to be at that point. I just don't believe everyone is. So the anons that are can help grow the anons that aren't. Again I appreciate you helping keep things in check. Just pointing out that these things do help the group grow
Believe me, I have done the same thing, negative feedback is fine, I see myself in all of you. I learned by getting called out.