Room Rules for "Chat about the Covid Narrative" room

Room Mission:

To provide a space for people fed up with Covid Batshit to vent, rant and educate the strange sheep among us.  Non-Covid topics are fine once in a while.

[Rules revised October 5]

 The main punishment for breaking rules will be by dot.  Bounces and Bans will be for extraordinary reasons.

Admins will dot for the following:

1. Talking too long on the mic, and ignoring 3 time warnings typed in ALL CAPS by an admin.

2. Jumping the mic.

3. Spending too much time pestering people with insults and/or badgering.

4.  Spamming.

5.  Going off on strange monologues on mic while other hands are up that are off-topic and/or which interrupt the flow of an existing mic conversation.

6.  Excessive sexual language or violent hatred directed at another chatter (expressed on mic or in text).

7.  The Jessica 123 Rule:  If we admins see a suspicious chatter who behaves suspiciously and has a name we don't know (or don't know well) and we suspect that chatter of being someone else, we can ask that chatter 3 times to come up on mic and speak without a voice changer for at least 15 seconds.  If the chatter fails to comply the 3rd time, he will be dotted.

NOTE: 

Admins should be slow to dot.  Rules #3 and #7 for example provide for 'admin discretion' in judging what "too much time" means and what "excessive" means.  Admins should try to err on the side of caution in dotting.

Dots may last anywhere from 1 minute to several hours, depending on admin discretion.

Bounces / Bans should be done by admins with extreme care, and only if any one or more of the above 7 infractions occur excessively.