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Math.SE chatrooms: how far off-topic is acceptable?
I think that anything that creates community is good for the community.
It strengthens the community to have community activities and discussions, even when they aren't about mathematics. Just like ...
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Why are the user suspension criteria applied for unfair comments on the main site currently not applied for unfair use of public chat rooms?
For my part I will say the following.
I don't really regret making those chat comments. I mean, I am not willing to apologize for them at the moment.
But I do concede that I'm not at all proud of ...
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List of chatrooms
Areas of mathematics
Let us list here rooms which serve for discussions related to a specific area of mathematics.
Basic Mathematics is meant for all basic mathematical discussion, including basic ...
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Increasing chat use, pros, cons and the tour
In my opinion, the best way to advertise the chat (and specific chat rooms) is using them. If a user comes to chat and sees the chatrooms associated with math.SE, they might have a peek in some of ...
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Why are the user suspension criteria applied for unfair comments on the main site currently not applied for unfair use of public chat rooms?
It is absolutely not the position of the moderators to condone abusive behavior in chat. Chat is less formal than the main site, so there is, in practice, a bit more room for heated discussion there (...
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List of chatrooms
General discussion rooms
Mathematics − The main chat-room for Mathematics SE, for both general discussion & math questions alike. Just ask. Also keep in mind: Main Chatroom Guidelines.
Math Meta ...
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Should chat have TeX support?
There is ChatJax++ now, a user script that enables MathJax in SE chat in a smart way, i.e. it requires no user interaction and renders new messages automatically.
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Can the chat be used to discuss opinionated questions
Yes, that's perfectly fine. Since you have more than 100 rep points you can even create a chat room for your discussion, if you're afraid of filling up the space of the main chatroom. To quote the ...
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Is it good, if I insert my problem on public chat to get more attention?
You can ask a question on chat, but let people know that the question is also on the main site, and try to follow the chat suggested rules, especially 2, 3, and 4.
robjohnMod
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What should be the role of *Welcome to MSE*?
I think amWhy's and Isa's comments above point out THE major problem with this for new users: a user needs 20 reputation to participate in chat, and most users who would benefit from talking to ...
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What should I do to chat successfully?
There is a list of domains which might be necessary when browsing or participating Stack Exchange on Meta Stack Exchange. Perhaps you're missing ajax.googleapis.com ...
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How to deal with defamations perpetrated through public chat rooms?
You were not suspended for a single comment but for a pattern of behavior over an extended period of time.
The comments in chat are not simply an attack on you, they raise legitimate questions based ...
quidMod
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Retroactively moving comments to chat, when they are no longer relevant, due to edit
Done. Long comment exchanges (>20 comments) raise an automated flag that moderators then tend to. I am not familiar with the details of how soon such flags are raised. In this case I didn't wait for ...
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List of chatrooms
Math Mods' Office is a room which has a specific purpose and is intended mainly to things where the input of moderators might be relevant. Creating this room was announced in this answer and the room ...
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Why are the user suspension criteria applied for unfair comments on the main site currently not applied for unfair use of public chat rooms?
To quote the Code of Conduct (emphasis mine),
We commit to enforcing and improving the Code of Conduct. It applies to everyone using Meta Stack Exchange and the Stack Exchange network, including our ...
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What should I do to chat successfully?
My solution: As @Glorfindel suggested, I added all the following domains to the PAC list.
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Would list of chat rooms (and chat room suggestions) be useful?
Would it help to have here on meta some list of specialized chat rooms? (In order to make more users aware of existence of those rooms.)
I am not sure if it would help, but it can hardly hurt. One ...
quidMod
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How do I invite a user to chat?
It is possible to invite a user that has a chat-profile to a chat.
For details on how to do that see How do I contact other users?
It appears though that you already are in a room with the user you ...
quidMod
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What to do about long discussions in comments? And how to avoid?
Most of us have experienced a time when someone asked a question during class or a talk, then followed up with a further question, then another, until the speaker has to ask them to discuss the issue ...
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Request in chat to downvote a specific answer
Not just to ask for down-votes alone
You should not just ask for down-votes. If it is bad enough asking to get it removed with vote to delete or flags would be appropriate. But if an answer is bad but ...
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Why the chat rooms are created?
Yes, one of the functions of the chatrooms is to allow discussion of problems in a "chatty" fashion that is not appropriate to the Q&A style of main Math.SE. Back and forth discussions often ...
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List of chatrooms
The The Crusade of Answers is a room for discussion and resolution of old, unanswered questions. Sometimes users link to easily-answerable (but unanswered) questions for others, or link to answers ...
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How do I invite a user to chat?
As the link in quid's answer explains, you can create a new room for you or another user. I will add that it is also possible to invite a user to already existing room.
You first need to find this ...
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Posting question on chat
No, it is in general not okay to do this. The rule of thumb to decide such things is to imagine what would happen if everybody did that. The chat room would be completely swamped. In addition users ...
quidMod
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Contacting a suspended user via meta?
At least often, though not in the specific case due to the network-wide suspension, it can indeed be done via "meta" yet not the per site meta, rather the main Meta:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/
...
quidMod
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List of chatrooms
In the search of a question - this room was created partly to collect feedback on Approach0 search engine and partly to assist with searching on the site in general. The creation of the room was ...
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Can the chat be used to discuss opinionated questions
Seems reasonable to me. You could make a separate chat room for a specific topic, if you like.
I should point out, the same people who rant and rave about some contentious topic on a main site, ...
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Request in chat to downvote a specific answer
This is not really an answer to your questions - but it seems that the discussion veered towards the role of a specific chatroom which is closely related to this.
From the comments below it seems ...
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Why can't I ping myself in chat?
In chat, you can "link" to a previous comment by beginning a comment with the text
:[comment id]
The [comment id] is a number ...
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