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Old Nov 04, 2014, 03:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Living in Chaos View Post
I joined PsychCentral because I thought it was a peer support site, not a "talk about sex all day" site.
To suggest chat is constantly about sex all day everyday is totally and utterly false, and as damaging as if it were true. I've been here over 3 years and have never even seen chat become so disgustingly rude that hoardes have people have fled in outrage.

I honesty don't see the problem here, if members are sensitive to certain topics they can block members within a room to stop seeing what they are writing - you can still stay in the room without being exposed to what is so disagreeable. They can also create a private chat with other members which is on a totally different screen and there's also the option to dip into another room whilst remaining in the first one so you can go back to the original room when it's considered safe.

I wonder if this is more about members being banned for complaining about a user created room - in that case I would recommend either staying away from rooms created by that user or messaging them to to try and resolve things accordingly.

I'm not for censoring people - one of the reasons they come here is to be able to talk about what they want in safety. Yesterday there was a brief discussion about murder which could easily have been offensive to many people but I don't see anyone complaining about that. Or that there are members whose sole purpose in chat is to decry clinically effective medicine in the place of herbal remedies, or others who regularly talk about other forms of abuse which could in theory trigger many. Why are those ok but sex talk isn't? It seems to me we can't pick and choose what is disagreeable about chat to suit our own arguments.
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