I know that the last few days of news have been particularly horrifying and tragic and that, understandably, people are dealing with a lot of emotions and opinions.
We have members of many backgrounds, nationalities and religions and we completely understand that people may have support needs related to the recent and ongoing Israel/Hamas situation. We encourage people who need support around this to contuine to seek it.
As we have enacted before, in chat, around similarly volatile topics, we are officially barring political analysis and discussion around this topic in the chat rooms. Inevitably this kind of engagement leads to arguments, upsets and bad feeling. It isn't conducive to a supportive environment and nobody here needs to come to chat and leave feeling worse.
Please follow staff instruction if the topic needs to change -.please also understand that members who are argumentative and uncooperative with staff requests to maintain a safe and supportive environment will be removed from the chat room.
Political discussion and analysis etc continues to be perfectly fine in private message, but we request that if you reach out in PM to discuss this, you check in with the other member first to ensure that this discussion is not unwelcome or upsetting for them.
As alway, thank you for helping us to keep the chat rooms as safe and supportive as possible for everyone.
We have members of many backgrounds, nationalities and religions and we completely understand that people may have support needs related to the recent and ongoing Israel/Hamas situation. We encourage people who need support around this to contuine to seek it.
As we have enacted before, in chat, around similarly volatile topics, we are officially barring political analysis and discussion around this topic in the chat rooms. Inevitably this kind of engagement leads to arguments, upsets and bad feeling. It isn't conducive to a supportive environment and nobody here needs to come to chat and leave feeling worse.
Please follow staff instruction if the topic needs to change -.please also understand that members who are argumentative and uncooperative with staff requests to maintain a safe and supportive environment will be removed from the chat room.
Political discussion and analysis etc continues to be perfectly fine in private message, but we request that if you reach out in PM to discuss this, you check in with the other member first to ensure that this discussion is not unwelcome or upsetting for them.
As alway, thank you for helping us to keep the chat rooms as safe and supportive as possible for everyone.