Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11649650-20140226024048/@comment-770155-20140227212751

Not having such strict rules may give the chat a relaxed and nice place to be, as user didn't have to be scared to break any rules like they would feel in a censorship/police state. Not enforcing such rules comes down in trusting our users to know where the line lies and what not to do, and thus expecting users to behave.

Maybe some of the chat visitors come from a heavily censored environment and are in for a lot of inappropriate themes since they feel like now is the time to talk about it because they won't get policed. This however, I think is very childish behaviour which I find disappointing and it saddens me to have to enforce rules. But if users don't see this themselves, I have to this cause.

This thread shouldn't be needed.

Furthermore denying other contributors from voting in this thread because they are not active enough in the chat isn't the right approach. Especially since all new users (<1 year membership) got to vote in the staff re-evaluation and even got to vote on veteran members who they had never heard of. These new users lacked knowledge on tracing how active given user is, which is a bad thing. But these users were still able to vote. I see this as a similar situation, where users less similar to the chat are free to vote, just like the regular chat visitors.