We average about 1000 chat messages per day, across ALL groups. Less than 1 per block. There is no concern about spam or scaling issues anytime soon. The general chat is not causing any additional load on people's nodes. This is a blanket censorship setting being hard-coded with no user options to change it. How is that anything like letting people choose for themselves?
Read what the community has to say about this decision:
https://qortal.link/APP/Q-Blog/Qortal%20Quips/Qortal%20Quips/Qortal-Quips-Issue-22-f5QOYX
Picture, if you will, the collective intake of breath that would echo through any proper Regency ballroom upon learning that the season's most exclusive venue—the very heart of social discourse itself—faced closure by administrative decree without so much as consulting those who frequented its halls!
Yet precisely such constitutional curiosity unfolded when Qortal Seth delivered his proclamation with the casual certainty of a gentleman announcing the weather: You can argue against it if you want, but it's still happening. In fact, the PR was merged earlier today. :D
The emoticon! Dear readers, observe how administrative authority announces the death of democratic consultation with a cheerful digital smile. One might almost admire the theatrical confidence—dismissing potential objections before they arise whilst simultaneously confirming the decision's irreversibility.
Such elegant efficiency in circumventing discourse!
- "I also don't want general chat removed."
- "Put my name in for keeping general chat!"
- "If it's a vote, add me to not wanting it gone also"
- "Keep GC my vote"
- "I'd like to for it to stay for now, but, I also understand that it'll be incompatible if we have a million people on qortal all using General Chat... But, they're removing it early in my opinion."
- "I do not wish to see general chat removed. When we get to 1,000,000 users using it daily, THEN I will reconsider."
- "It's not scale-able. I get that. But until that becomes a real problem due to a large influx of users I too want to keep General chat. And when it really HAS to go, which is inevitable, then I think the kill switch date for that should be a community majority decision."
- "Add that to the never ending list the 'Qortal Community' doesn't get a say in, beyond a ***** joke at this point."
Contradiction the First:
A platform whose entire value proposition centres on "uncensorable communication" removing its only truly uncensorable global public square. General Chat exists as a curious architectural anomaly—group zero, present by default for every account, yet recognised by neither standard group APIs nor moderation tools. No owner, no administrators, no ban capabilities—merely individual blocking for those who prefer silence. This singular venue offered genuine uncensored expression, and administrative authority found this... architecturally inconvenient.
Contradiction the Second:
Despite possessing voting infrastructure, despite "Crowetic's Proposals" existing precisely for community consultation, despite explicit community opposition emerging immediately—administrative decree proceeded regardless. When greenflame089 inquired "Or hey you could make a poll and use the voting system to find out right?", the silence proved most eloquent.
Contradiction the Third:
The platform's foundational advice to users encountering disagreeable content has always been: "block them for yourself." One notes with interest that when administrative authority wished to address content concerns, the chosen solution involved removing the venue entirely rather than following the same principle recommended to community members.
We average about 1000 chat messages per day, across ALL groups. Less than 1 per block. There is no concern about spam or scaling issues anytime soon. The general chat is not causing any additional load on people's nodes. This is a blanket censorship setting being hard-coded with no user options to change it. How is that anything like letting people choose for themselves?
Read what the community has to say about this decision:
https://qortal.link/APP/Q-Blog/Qortal%20Quips/Qortal%20Quips/Qortal-Quips-Issue-22-f5QOYX
Contradiction the First:
A platform whose entire value proposition centres on "uncensorable communication" removing its only truly uncensorable global public square. General Chat exists as a curious architectural anomaly—group zero, present by default for every account, yet recognised by neither standard group APIs nor moderation tools. No owner, no administrators, no ban capabilities—merely individual blocking for those who prefer silence. This singular venue offered genuine uncensored expression, and administrative authority found this... architecturally inconvenient.
Contradiction the Second:
Despite possessing voting infrastructure, despite "Crowetic's Proposals" existing precisely for community consultation, despite explicit community opposition emerging immediately—administrative decree proceeded regardless. When greenflame089 inquired "Or hey you could make a poll and use the voting system to find out right?", the silence proved most eloquent.
Contradiction the Third:
The platform's foundational advice to users encountering disagreeable content has always been: "block them for yourself." One notes with interest that when administrative authority wished to address content concerns, the chosen solution involved removing the venue entirely rather than following the same principle recommended to community members.