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 evolving
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.
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Wow, 19 hours and very few comments here, less than ten.
Did something happen?
Yes.. many long time users got tired of being banned over silliness, so they left the platform. Pushed out if you might say.
I was talking to my mom about this the other day. It used to take me over an hour just to get through general chat. That was back in January 2024. Now it takes me 10 minutes. The number of posts and interactions here have dropped significantly over the last year. It’s very sad 😢
I think the idea is to direct traffic to the X account that cats runs now. Thus doing away with this platform. It’s pretty obvious.
That being sad, there’s still a lot of great posts here and a lot of great people here. It’s just sad to see it shrink, and shrink, and shrink.