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Proposal: Can Include A link to a chat room related to the question or answer. Even if tangentially. I've always found SO to be too dry. Sure, pleasantries are as helpful in a question o...

posted 3y ago by Estela‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Estela‭ · 2021-06-09T23:12:10Z (almost 3 years ago)
Proposal:

> **Can Include**
> * A link to a chat room related to the question or answer. Even if tangentially.

I've always found SO to be too dry. Sure, pleasantries are as helpful in a question or answer as finding them in each page of an encyclopedia.

But some times you find someone with a common interest. Maybe they have an e-mail in their profile, maybe you can meet them in chat. Maybe not and you have no way of indicating such mutual interest.

Would allowing a single link in a comment to a discord chat room indicating the wish for further exchanges be too disruptive? Meaning that if someone has posted a link then nobody can post any further link, a meeting place already exists. If this is allowed and actually used it might become later a feature integrated in the site, with a button for auto-creation of chat rooms by normal users. They'd be an opportunity to help building community rather than the purgatory that is formed with "*comments are not for lengthly discussions, moved to (soon to be frozen) chat room*".

I am not very proficient with Discord, so I don't know if the chat room creator becomes the moderator and that might cause "first dibs" issues. This might need to be further fleshed out.