We're seeing a lot of general disregard for RP scenes through group chat, most especially when someone is calling 911 for help only to get witty responses, which half the time, aren't even really funny. Considering the group is nearing 2000 users, random banter that have nothing to do w/ the sim would only be seen as spam and quite annoying. It also irks me a lot to see people's role-play being mocked -- If someone doesn't have anything constructive to add, then there's no point in them posting. Plus, with the first responders group being revitalized, it'll help keep the channels clean for officers/emt to respond.

I can establish an optional OOC group for the community to babble aimlessly on while keeping the main RP chat dedicated to 911 calls and request for admins during a griefing. The OOC chat will have some obvious regulation, such as no flaming or solicitation, but really anything else would go.

To help mitigate the issue from here on out, our resident security team can drop courtesy IMs to those who are inappropriately using chat; further attempts would lose ability to post for that particular chat session.

Thoughts?