That should not prevent you or anyone from using the chatroom, they are suppose to be independent of one another and if the staff chat room is being used, it doesn't stop the regular chatrooms from being accessed.
If this is a problem for anyone and the program is malfunctioning let one of the mods/staff check it out, we'll be happy to have the "Doc" find out if there is something wrong with it.

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