remember too that we can open new rooms, that always helps disperse ppl to investigate the new room and helps with the congestion in ES. To do this just click the last choice in the chat box, new user room. then you also have some control over the tenor of the room. I agree ES is "broken" I don't know why ppl are afraid of the coffeehouse or creating a new room.
We used to do that all the time and have several rooms open to move about and visit , it made the cliques less of a problem. Thanks for your input Mountain, art and QL