Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5961377-20150816043324/@comment-27980194-20160923031433

Bumping to propose new rule.

One rule I'd like to propose is the abolishment of attention-grabbing in the general sense on the chat. For starters let me just get out the way the amount of frustration it can cause. As a user, it can be incredibly annoying to have to deal with this generally obstrusive behavior. In that sort of position as a user your two options are to either ignore it, in which case it just typically intensifies, eventually just resulting in a temper tantrum of some sort, or you have to just outright drop whatever you're talking about for the sole sake of appeasing them. As a moderator, it is infuriating that there's not many tools to really crack down on this sort of behavior besides connections to chat disruption and grief-slinging, which can be confusing as both of those are admittedly pretty vague, and as a result it can end up in confusion and potentially an argument between the moderator and the user. That then leads into the main reason I'd like to propose this into the first place, which is more or less just to provide a more concrete ground in which moderators, including myself can warn and especially kick/ban users who fall into these sort of attention-grabbing behaviors as well as to establish that this is, in fact, an incredibly annoying and disruptive behavior, as to avoid any sort of argument in the future about whether or it is or isn't.