Posted April 1, 2020, 11:20 a.m. by Admiral Joe P (Librarian / TECH Chairman) (Joe P)
Posted by Admiral Joe P (Librarian / TECH Chairman) in Discord and COVID-19
Everyone,As Steve mentioned in his post, STF is a community. Some people in the community seek support for what they’re going through by talking to other people going through similar things. Other people in the community would vastly prefer to not do that, and instead find that our community is useful as an escape from whatever it is that is going on in their “real lives.” Regardless of your particular preference is, we want to do whatever we can to help everyone stay sane and feel like they can still be a part of the club.
In order to do that, we have created a new channel in Discord for discussing the current COVID-19 pandemic, which is rather creatively called #covid-19. This channel operates like #after-dark, in that it is an opt-in only experience. Access to the #covid-19 channel must be requested from the LCARS bot by typing “!covid” on the #starbase channel. If you don’t do this, then the channel’s contents will remain hidden from you.
Since we’ve created this space for discussing this incredibly stressful topic, we’re also going to institute a new rule on the Discord server, which is that discussion of the pandemic is not permitted outside of the #covid-19 channel. Operators have been instructed to direct people who want to talk about it to the new channel for that purpose, explicitly so that everyone else who would prefer not to don’t have to read it.
We hope this is an adequate compromise between the people who want to talk about this and the people who really rather would not. If you have any questions about this, you can direct them to TECH or an Operator.
Joe
Just an update to the original post: the command to join the #covid-19 channel has been changed to “!covid-19”, as the bot vendor has added a “!covid” command to the bot that relays statistics about the virus globally and by country or state.
Thank you,
Joe
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