Huh, because you don't get an answer in a few hours, it's "suspicious"?? We don't have any guaranteed response time here for support questions.

The option to create your own chat room is available to any member who asks to become a chat host. However, an existing chat host has to nominate you to the position, because it is one of responsibility for helping to uphold our community guidelines while in the chat room.

Hope that answers your question (although not in as timely a manner as you might've liked).

Back to the OP and not to derail this thread, though...

It's up to members to let us know when other members aren't respecting the guidelines for the Emotional Support chat room. We understand that from time to time, ES will turn to occasionally light chit chat. But I have to remind folks that it's a very simple thing to move to another chatroom if the conversation stays in that kind of mode.

We will happily help members understand this if you let us know when it's going on...

Best,
DocJohn