Board Thread:Administrator Notice/@comment-26567650-20141214052515/@comment-1392727-20141216121125

Bullet Francisco wrote: Shadowunleashed13 wrote: Myself 123 wrote: Any new rules fell under previous rules beforehand, nothing's actually been added. Point conceded, except I don't recall the "emotional dumping ground" part before the "update". Why fret over the specifics? It could be argued that the "emotional dumping ground" rule fell under other rules before (it is spam, disrupts the chat flow, and prevents other users from being able to socialize freely without feeling uncomfortable). To my knowledge, there were many problems with users "dumping their emotions" in a way that negatively impacted the chat, and they had received warnings prior to the chat ruleset even being updated. It was already frowned upon before, it had simply been made more clear.

There is a fine line between expressing your feelings over a negative event and shoving it into the chat as a desperate cry for attention. The latter refers to, as you said, disrupting the chat, which doesn't necessarily have to be an emotional breakdown and is already mentioned a few times on the policy page. The description of this new rule doesn't specify what extent is complaining about a life event acceptable. It implies that it isn't acceptable at all. Perhaps providing an elaboration for disruptive behavior in the self-centered context would make it clear. Or one can merely write that if a topic is causing most of the chat to feel comfortable, take it elsewhere (I think that is written on the policy page as well). Otherwise, I don't find this rule necessary.