Regarding the recent private messages announcement

[◄Chuck►]

I see there is a little misunderstanding.

Nothing will actually change, it's merely meant as a reminder that the rules also apply for things not seen in the global chat.

None of our admins is going and snoop through all the stuff written in private, in fact nobody really wants to, but we have the option (and that was never any different) to lookup certain situations in the logs, in case someone reported someone misbehaving, e.g. for insults.

We don't care the slightest what you say and how you say it as long nobody gets directly offended. E.g. by driving up to someone and going like "!l you dumb a**hole" or delivering such a message via !pm.

The channel chats are a little different, as you have a constant changing audience as people can freely join and leave, so whenever you say something stupid, you have no real knowledge how many people will effectively see that message.
So, unless you know exactly who you are really talking to, it's much advised to act like you were talking in the global chat.

I hope that clears it up