Timeline for Stack Overflow chat opening up to all users in January; Stack Exchange chat later
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| Dec 26, 2025 at 14:18 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @SecurityHound Okay, not sure why you said it's an easy way, then. :) | |
| Dec 26, 2025 at 8:11 | comment | added | Security Hound | I don’t know. 🤷 Like I said I think the change is stupid. | |
| Dec 26, 2025 at 6:28 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @SecurityHound lol, which account should be banned network-wide when new accounts are free? | |
| Dec 26, 2025 at 2:48 | comment | added | Security Hound | @BryanKrause - Seems like easy way for moderators to elevate those few cases to staff support for network wide bans, of course I think this change is also stupid, I am just saying only a handful of individuals will go to the trouble you describe. The developers won’t listen to our feedback. This change absolutely will happen and it will cause a ton of problems but they are to busy fundamentally changing the website to allow opinions on the website | |
| Dec 19, 2025 at 16:02 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | It's also a problem for site-banned users. Normally, a site-banned user cannot chat. They can create a new account, but the new account does not have the reputation to chat nor do many things on the site. With 1-rep to chat, site-banned users can keep creating new accounts for chat with little barrier, and can return again on a new account each time they are suspended from site or chat. | |
| Dec 18, 2025 at 12:17 | comment | added | Andras Deak -- Слава Україні | @Lundin part of those no-context code blocks could be a twist on the "use SO as a code paste service for cheating" approach. Doesn't make it any less of a problem though. | |
| Dec 18, 2025 at 11:08 | comment | added | Lundin | The main problem is that 90% of the users either haven't learned basic human-to-human communication or don't even realize it is a chat, mistaking it for some AI prompt. There is some trolling/spamming etc but it's a minor problem compared to all the kids just dropping source code in an unknown language in chat, with no explanation given and zero context. I don't know what's wrong with these people but it clearly shouldn't be the responsibility of SO mods to fix them. That's what parents are for. | |
| Dec 18, 2025 at 5:57 | comment | added | Andras Deak -- Слава Україні | Indeed @AndrewT. I assumed it was obvious from context, having mentioned question bans earlier. | |
| Dec 18, 2025 at 5:36 | comment | added | Andrew T. | "from people who have been banned from the main site." I'd assume you meant post-banned rather than site-banned (i.e. suspended; can't chat)? | |
| Dec 18, 2025 at 0:13 | comment | added | roganjosh | There is no upside to this. I tried to contain it in the Lobby but now it's just dispersed. Same crap, just now in multiple places. It's not like we're going to get better posts in Python because of this, or that it encourages more posts; it's just more work for ROs. | |
| Dec 17, 2025 at 23:12 | history | answered | Andras Deak -- Слава Україні | CC BY-SA 4.0 |