Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25825221-20150517160847

Unfortunately the poll to allow cursing on the chat won, so in order to make the supporters see the error of their ways, we need to make the chat far less active.

What I'd like you to do is please don't go on the chat. Unless the only people on are the Opposers, you can't trust it. I am very disappointed that it had to go this way, because I liked being on the chat, but now without any order or structure at all, the only choice is to bail.

This is a petition about boycotting the chat. Unfortunately, in just a day it went from being a nice and friendly place, to AOAS (all of a sudden) a crazy place where anyone on the chat has the right to curse.

Let's compare this to the poll to have "Fact of the Week". Even if you strongly oppose it, you can still simply avoid it. It's actually nontrivial to even find the Fact of the Week. So that wouldn't have too much of an impact on people. However, in the chat, there is absolutely NO times for friendly discussion. This is pretty big if you were previously very active on chat.

This petition is for boycotting the chat.

Signers I sign! I don't sign... Cancel my vote.

If you don't want to boycott the chat, I've actually thought of a few compromises:
 * 1) On Mondays and Tuesdays no swearing is allowed. This gives the people who want to swear 5 days in which to do so, while the people who hate it have time when they can chat normally. This would be judged by an "official clock" posted in the chat room.
 * 2) Swearing is only allowed in PRIVATE chat, and only if all agree.
 * 3) People can have a tag that says "No Swearing Near Me" if they want to. This means you can't swear if they're on the chat.
 * 4) In settings there's a "no swearing" option where the ENTIRE word is censored, not just the last two letters. That way I can still enjoy a decent chat session and other people can still cuss all they want, and all I see is *s . 