Short version: Require 5 reviews before allowing access to the chatbar.
Currently, the chatbar allows you to chat with anyone who is currently on YWS. This is different from a lot of sites where you can only chat with people who you're friends with.
I don't want to change that, but there has been occasional abuse of it, and as YWS grows, those who abuse it will almost certainly increase in number. By abuse, I mean a number of things ranging from asking strangers to review your work to annoying someone.
In the long time ago, we had a similar problem with the chatroom since there were members from another website at the time that liked to troll YWS. We solved it by requiring at least 25 reviews to access the chatroom, although that eventually came down to just 5. Nowadays, there is no restriction on access to chat for two reasons: (1) the trolls disappeared, and (2) we have a lot of chat mods now.
In the case of the chatbar, trolls aren't an issue, but there is nonetheless some abuse of it. And it's not possible to moderate.
So, what I'm thinking is to require 5 reviews before allowing access to the chatbar. It would not completely eliminate abuse, but it would reduce it by quite a lot.
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