Wow. after reading the original post, then reading some of the replies, it made me think about what I said in the imoss post.
There are ton of no win situations us mods find ourselves in and this thread touches on a few.
Bella requests that those singing would do it in yousing instead of the lounge, because it's hard to fellowship with all the singing. She even suggests that they be banned.
Well here's the deal! Moderators have tried over and over to move people to other rooms when the lounge becomes cluttered with singing or sillyness or whatever! Often when that's done, people won't move or they'll complain or if they keep it up they end up getting banned!
So! Then we have to deal with people complaining about being asked to move to another room. Or we'll hear from others how CC is censoring or not letting others sing to the Lord! Or we'll get complaints that their friend was banned for singing or even 'singing to the Lord' in a Christian chat!!!!! How evil!!! Even though they were warned many times to just take it to another room.
So what do us mods do? If we try and give a little leeway or let the singing happen, then people get mad because of singing in the lounge. But if we try and enforce things then we get flack for, 1.censoring chat. 2. not letting others sing unto the Lord IN A CHRISTIAN CHAT ROOM 3.or their friend getting banned!
Whiteknite mentioned...
"One of the main things that bother me about the chat rooms is that there doesn't seem to be any fellowship there anymore.
When I first found CC; it seemed like there was a bible discussion in the bible discussion room almost all the time."
"Now it seems to me that the people who were into the fellowship, prayer, and bible discussions are getting banned or simply leaving on their own. This really bothers me. I feel it is to the point that I have been seriously thinking about leaving Christian Chat"
Again, another NO WIN SITUATION for us mods. So on one hand someone want's 'fellowship' but on the other the same person is upset with their friends being banned!
Sometimes to maintain the fellowship people want, we have to ban others that are causing problems. Sometimes that may happen to be one of your friends. Of course you don't know that because you may not know the whole story behind a ban.
Now we could again, go easier on banning people, but then we'd get flack because we let trouble makers cause discord. Yet if we get rid of those causing discord then we get flack because someone's friend was banned!
So I guess we could be sticklers for NO singing in the lounge. But that would carry with it certain consequences. That would mean people would be asked to move rooms or simply stop things or face being banned. Which would lead to others getting mad at CC because they view it as censorship, or quenching the spirit or whatever.
If we did that, then others friends would probably get mad. Then create even more work for us mods.
My point here is that on things like this, it's not always so easy to simply say STOP and get others to do it. There always seems to be some no win fall out from either decision that is made!
And this is all over a chat room! With people working for FREE so people can spend hours and hours of their day chatting!!