hi
i'd like to just chime in...
we encourage all kinds of discussion in the group and do encourage people to not discuss prices, giving away cats, sales, etc. the main reason is to be mindful of the many who do sell, etc. we like to keep that separate and respect that and let it have it's own place, which is not in our main chat.
talking about events is ok from the standpoint of attending, etc.
it's when people come in to "advertise" that we write them privately asking them to keep the simple group guidelines. (which i am not saying that anyone in this thread has done.)
we love to have the community share what goes on, it's just that it's a fine line... and some take advantage of that to promote things that they have other groups to do that in.
overall it's not a big issue we have, our community is pretty great at keeping to the guidelines. we have no rule about how much or little a person can chat! we love how diverse the community is.
if there is a time that there is a misunderstanding we apologize. we don't mean ever to send a negative message about sharing, and in the course of encouraging people to keep from advertising, it is possible there is a mistake in how things were interpreted.
i hope this makes sense and would encourage all who want to enjoy group chat!
