Thread:LordTBT/@comment-3462718-20111025155852/@comment-3462718-20111026045425

I'm not sure on whose end the problem is but the answers and the questions aren't matching so there must be a misunderstanding someplace. Let me try putting my confusion a different way.

Suppose one user (A) has attracted another user's (B) attention with their talent for creating characters. B sends A a message. "Hey,could you help me with my fanfic? I'm having trouble coming up with a character to be the hero/the villain/etc." This is a subject that will by necessity require some lengthy discussion. Now suppose A happens to be online when the message is sent, so they respond as soon as they get it. "That sounds interesting. What is your fanfic about?" There will, over the next half-hour to an hour, follow several messages back and forth working out details, culminating in the fanfiction story being posted in A's blog. As a second scenario; if B and A had not been online at the same time, this process would have taken longer but the end result would have been the same. Now, my questions are:


 * 1) Would A and B be considered to be "chatting" in one or both the scenarios described? If so...
 * 2) Would the content of this conversation be the cause of a "chatting" violation?
 * 3) Would there only be a violation if they happened to be online at the same time?