> But if, like me (an outside observer uneffected by any changes that are made here), you think a more open and friendly forum would be nicer for everybody, all you gotta do is tell people to post whenever any random thought crosses their mind.

And see, post #804 is a good example of something that would have gone straight to the chat room had there been one at the time (for reference, the post announcing RinkChat's opening was #12379). Our little Kang adventure, since deleted, would have gone there, as well. In fact, much of the Forum is like that, because before RinkChat, the Forum *was* our "RinkChat". The joke goes that before RinkChat, we sat around refreshing the Recent Messages page, and it's true, for those of us who had the time to do so.

But perhaps... we might try a bit of a different approach: when in doubt, post it and see what happens. There are still many things that are obviously right out, but we should be able to figure out what's okay and what's not.

Nyperold