Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24304936-20140915215238

Yes, you read that right. We managed to do quite well on our trial over on SPWC, and today is the deadline. Almost everyone has conducted themselves well, and I feel that we can have a chat again that promotes the site in a positive way.

HOWEVER...

The rules are going to be strict. Where a kick was before will now be in the form of a ban in most instances. Now I know a lot of you have a million questions regarding details, and rightly so. So, mods and admins will have the say with their good judgment until the admin team can draft the modified chat rules. I have demoted all former chat mods who were in place before the chat shutdown, and replaced them with the mods who were doing the legwork on SPWC. This was informally agreed upon by admins, mods, and users during the summer in the event our chat came back. I'm also keeping chat mod apps closed until I feel that the chat re-launch has the ability to stick around. In short? The chat's ultimate fate is in your, the community's, hands.

Anyway, common sense is common sense, people. Our site is very popular, and we need to conduct ourselves, as well as the work on the site, accordingly in a positive way. We simply will not tolerate flagrant rule-breakers and drama-starters. That is what caused the headaches before and the summer-long shutdown.

'I'd like to point out that if the type of instances that happened, happen again'', chat on here is gone. Forever. End of story. As in FOREVER (in case you missed the first two parts).'''

No mods or admins in chat when someone is acting like they had a lobotomy done with a soldering iron? Glad you asked. It's your duty as a responsible user who cares around here to screencap the incident (here is the link for Lightshot; it's easy to install and use) and report it to a mod or administrator via their talk-page. I can assure you, we will deal with it swiftly.

That being said, come on in, sit down, have a taco and enjoy conversation among your peers and friends. I look forward to seeing old friends and new users/writers alike. 