(08-27-2015 10:53 AM)Ivy Norsk Wrote:  I don't think they want to interfere in the secondary market and that's one reason their CSRs keep that line drawn in the Addicts group. And they don't want to deal with any potential drama.

As for names, I was thinking of something very plain like "CatChat" but that isn't striking, but makes the chat focus clear. I wouldn't use anything with the word KittyCatS in it, since that is trademarked to HQ and this group would not be affiliated or endorsed by KittyCats. I thought about "Secondary Kitty" - but I think that would imply sales and advertising to many people. I would not have notices turned on in this group at all. My brain has also come up with and rejected a number of frivolous and unworkable names.

@Senta: I think the Affordable Kitties group has a good mission. But I do think that since it promotes advertising and sales, it wouldn't have the same focus as this group.

Ivy Wrote:I've been thinking about it: the pros and cons of of a non-partisan Kitty chat group - for chat - not sales, that would not be affiliated with any market. I would not want it to pull people away from the Addicts group, but I don't think it would; people have multiple windows/groups open all the time. I would want it to be a place where events could be announced, i.e., "auction in 10 minutes, people" - because I do think auctions should be promoted. But there would have to be a limit on how many times an event could be announced or the spam would be unendurable. Perhaps that would take the form of a ban on copy/pasting announcements into chat. I would like to see very light moderation on the sort of topics discussed: people shouldn't be afraid to mention linden amounts or pricing or discuss the pricing on traits seen at auction lately. I think that information is something that's often hidden from people who can't make it to auctions - not deliberately, but it just doesn't get seen so much. Maybe it does on groups that are set up to discuss pricing. But of course, no ad hominem attacks on people, markets, etc.

I used to moderate a group called Fashion Consolidated Cafe, and everything had to be chat. Absolutely nothing an ad. But you could say a lot conversationally and that worked pretty well.