Thread:ScottyBlue/@comment-8072-20120418014640/@comment-8072-20120420233359

Allow me to address this.

1. It's not rude. 4-5 years ago, myself and others were never plagued with inquiries for a place to chat. It's unneeded. In fact, I can't remember the last time I directly chatted with anyone myself, and I use Facebook and Gmail every day.

2. We aren't in the business of flat out directing new users away from this site. I would also point out that this isn't necessarily what's going on here - every new user isn't asking "where can we go to chat" - new users are being directed away to other sites unsolicited, e.g. without asking for a link. Saying "welcome, now go here" is wrong, regardless of the location.

You do have a loophole. If you are linking somewhere on your profile, and a new user happens to view your profile and sees somewhere to go, that's fine. However, you can't go around saying "View my profile to find out where to chat" advertising your profile as a way of leaving this site. Does that make sense? We want new users to stay and contribute here. We don't want new users deciding to not come here, and just go to chat land.

Again, please refer me to what exactly isn't clear in the Manual, and I'm all for clarifying and updating. I want it to be 100% clear. Use the talk page to suggest/recommend/submit anything!