Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-26281589-20140319194256/@comment-7472785-20140324091934

Well, I'm rarely in the chat, and if, not for long - it did seem to me to be a sort of sub-community not very open to or interested in an 'outsider'. But that is just a personal opinion.

That said, on a general view, a community that does feel that it needs a bot to log cases of inapproriete behaviour to be on 24/7 is a sorry community. The tools to log perpetrators are available. The other 'tool' is community. Very rarely are instances which lead to a complaint one on one situations. Those who stand by and watch are no better than people gawking at accidents without cotributing help.

It's not that I'm not part of any chat in my online presence - I have Administrator and Moderator experience in other boards - and such a relatively small community should work  as self-regulating or it's not worth being called that. There is responsibility in being a member in any forum - there is no all inclusive 'all problems will be taken care of by our Mods' service, it's the members who set the tone, attitude, contents.

You get what YOU contribute!