Board Thread:New Rules and Promotion/@comment-24808864-20160123162614

First I would like to thank all the participants on http://khanacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:56622 for new chat policies. There have been some great ideas there and I think most of them have been pretty unopposed. I will try to revise these policies over the weekend into the final document.

I have tried to find a peaceful resolution and compromise among many chat mods regarding "kicking when away" but it just isn't happening on your own, so we need to do this formally and have the community decide since we cannot balance the decision among the moderators alone.

If you wish to particpate the decision that we are trying to make it whether someone on "away" status should be kicked after some amount of time, or just allowed to stay.

OPTION 1: No kicking for being "Away."

OPTION 2: People can be kicked for being away after x hours of being away as continuously witnessed by a chat mod. (fill in x)

We leave this up for at least 48 hours so that people can respond. If the discussion is "close" then we will extend it but if a decision is made we will insert it into the Chat Policies. If a rule is put into the chat policies and a chat moderator violates it, I think the chat moderator should lose chat mod rights and have to prove they understand that the community needs to be listened to. 