We've established a bit of a blurry guideline based on community standards, one which is presently not mentioned in the Chat Guide, but based on a classic rule. "#site19 is not your blog."
In recent times, it's mostly been applied to users who both:
- Cause problems (usually by being a low-level dick to people), but not enough to get permanently banned for it (unrelated to "personal blogging")
- Repeatedly talk about their recurring personal problems in #site19 (but users talking about their personal life in other ways, at length, are not disciplined… even though that's also literally "personal blogging". not necessarily a bad thing, but understandably confusing.)
However, these aren't official guidelines, and I don't think they've been cited to users who've been asked to stop using 19 as their blog. And they may not even be intentional guidelines, just operating on a "squeaky wheel" principle (a person who caused problems, talking about their problems).
There's also the question of whether we still stop people from discussing any off-topic subject when they talk about it too much, such as someone's favorite videogame (the classic example from a bygone era of #site19), and under what circumstances we do so.
"When it's disruptive" has been how we've operated so far, and that's a good guideline, but presently it seems like some things may be perceived as disruptive without creating any actual disruption (or nothing more significant that a single person complaining, which is not always grounds for action since literally everything in 19 has been complained about at least once).
So, chat operators & admins, let's clarify these guidelines.
How do we determine when someone's discussing something so much that it's disruptive, and how do we avoid over-moderating or favoritism issues?
Does "19 is not your blog" apply to repeatedly talking about personal problems, or excessively discussing any personal stuff, or something else?