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Listen, I'm all for free speech. However, some users use the chat as their shitbox. I'm talking about folks who make it difficult to discuss anything other than "you're a faggot" or "no you're a faggot" because the log is filled with people just insulting each other all day.

How about a system where a user can be temporarily muted, and the method would be votes cast by regular "active" chat users, based on a participation score for each user. A minimum number of votes must be cast, such as 4 or whatever, and the offending user gets a notification. A progressive cooldown timer will be set, which increases exponentially every time that user gets voted off the island (up to a maximum of like a day or whatever).

This way, there are no assigned moderators to abuse mod powers, the quality of conversation will increase, and the world will be a little bit cleaner without 12-hour binges of "you're a fink" "no you're the fink".

I like the realtime interaction with other goats, but it gets very tiring every time you look at the chat and it's nothing but people throwing insults back and forth.

Maybe instead of muting them, they can be "redirected" into the "naughty corner" filled with the people who have been cast out of the main chat.

Hiding a user from the chat is there, but that still leaves a room full of crap for everyone else, and meessages get lost in the sea of "dur hur", so it doesn't really address the problem with messages being lost between people who just want to talk and not sling shit all day.