Feature Request: Allow low-karma players to communicate in chat

[xxerox]

Uh, citation needed.... I believe you are presenting as fact what is simply conjecture. In particular, looking at the bug tracking system (https://boardgamearena.com/bugs?sort=status_desc&game=0) shows 23 rejected suggestions for the BGA website (5 of which are for specific games and not the website, 3 of which are spam) and 41 implemented suggestions. This indicates that BGA staff does care about people's suggestions.

Back to the original request of allowing standard messages (good game, hello, etc.) by low-karma players. To do this would most likely require an overhaul of the entire chat system. The way it looks now is that the system looks at what your active tab is, and assigns messages to that tab. If at a table it will show the messages to others at the table, and if anywhere else on the site to the General messages chat. Having to do extra checks if a table configuration allows communication would require extra resources.

They did already a full overhaul of the chat system to block low karma and non-premium players of using chats. Seems easy to simply reverse or edit it.

[Jest Phulin]

Correct, but that overhaul was an allow/disallow switch for all chat. It wasn't an allow/disallow based on which channel you are in and whether that particular channel's user-customizable options allowed it.