User blog comment:Drew1200/Inappropriate Chat Conversations/@comment-5311834-20140606015720

"yesterday there was a highly inappropriate chat conversation"

"Highly" is more than an exaggeration. There were a few inappropriate jokes that were inexcusable, but not any more than that.

"If something inappropriate does happen to come up in public chat, any user who asks for a link in PM, attempts to continue the conversation through PM, or participates in any other abuse of the private messaging system will be treated as though it happened in public chat. Our policy makes no distinction between public and private messages. Thus, the policy will be enforced in all private messages just as it will be in public chat.

No one has ever listened to this rule and no one ever will- It's just too much to ask. You can't control what happens in PM.

"The same enforcement as described in the previous point will be placed on references to other sites where inappropriate chats are being held. We do not attempt to enforce our policy on other wikis, but we will not tolerate any type of "recruiting" for any type of questionable conversation on another wiki. This means that if someone says “Hey, this is getting out of hand, let’s continue it at my test wiki”, then that user is responsible for everything that is said on his or her test wiki, which means they will likely be banned if anyone chooses to say something against our policy. That’s a very dangerous spot to be in, so I sincerely ask you to please not direct conversations to other places. We want bad conversations to be ended, not moved elsewhere. We will not try to prevent users from having conversations on other wikis, but we will not allow them to use our chat to find people to join their conversation."

Again, this will never be stopped because banning someone for actions on another wiki is absurd.

Drastic policy changes like this never go well, and most of these are over the top. The idea of it is good, yes, but not the policy itself.