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Guidelines for when to use "Chat" instead of "Comment"
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Comments should only be used if they give any constructive input to the post (Q&A) and don't turn out to be a long/open ended debate/discussion.
There is nothing wrong if there is a ...
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A question about a chat room that is hosted by another SE
The chat room didn't "emerge from a post" in the sense that it was created by someone moving comments to chat or something like that. It was created manually by a user going to chat and ...
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How to create a new chat room that's specific to Hinduism.SE?
Once you have sufficient privilege, you can create a new chat room at chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/new as shown below.
If you don't have enough privilege or do not want to create a new chat room, use ...
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How to change my avatar in Hinduism chat?
Every chat user has a parent site shown as "parent user". You have to change your parent site avatar and that same avatar is shown in chat.stackexchange.com also.
Click on your avatar in chat room.
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Have a chat room where all the site moderators are contactable
There is a room called Moderation.
It is active but gallery. Only some approved users can talk. Hence, it is not much of a use for contacting moderators. I propose that it should be made public. ...
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Have a chat room where all the site moderators are contactable
There is already a chatroom called Moderation: https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/50198/moderation
At least 2 moderators are contactable there i.e. TheDestroyer and Pandya.
But you'll have to ...
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Is it possible for me to track my flagging history for chatroom messages?
There is no option to track chat flags.
In fact there won't be any url to the flagged messages to track.
Chat flags will be approved or declined very soon since they can be reviewed by users with ...
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Should we clean up Hinduism chat?
Should we perhaps have a second chat for Hinduism bot so that main chat can become a place of community again?
No, we do not need a separate chat-rooms for bot and users. Doing that will probably ...
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What is the purpose of the Moderation chat room? Why does it remain frozen?
The moderation chat room was initially created to facilitate discussions regarding moderation and moderators when we used to have lots of repeated meta posts on it.
As known to you also from the very ...
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What is the purpose of the Moderation chat room? Why does it remain frozen?
It has been frozen because of inactivity, since it wasn't used for 14 days. See e.g. Why do inactive chat rooms become "frozen"? on Meta Stack Exchange.
♦ moderators don't notice this,...
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What should our chatroom name be?
Sanatan Dharma
Note: But I think this may not be easy to find other users (outers)! However, we can use this name like other communities do
Related: Should we change the community name to Sanatana ...
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How do we prevent chats from being deleted?
There is criteria of automatic deletion of chatrooms, quoting here:
Will these rooms exist forever?
Rooms will exist indefinitely, so long as there is at least one person actively talking in the room....
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