If you enjoy lifting, this forum is the place for you to discuss training techniques and theory. Please don’t enter without chalk on your keyboard!
This chat is for bodybuilders, powerlifters and anyone interested in lifting. It provides an ideal place for discussing how to maximize muscle growth with supplements as well as training methods designed to achieve maximum results. Furthermore, bodybuilders can ask any questions and receive advice from other bodybuilders in the community.
After reaching a set threshold of participation (for instance 3 visits or 6 messages), viewers could volunteer to moderate the chat after signing up as volunteers – this would not only enhance community building efforts but would also incentivize viewer engagement by giving them moderator privileges.
An unmoderated chat room can become vulnerable to trolling and threats that are detrimental to its purpose and discourage participation from the community. Furthermore, such spaces may be slow in responding to requests for help from existing or potential participants, or can feel overcrowded and difficult to navigate.
Twitch allows moderators to rate limit specific users whose contribution rates become problematic, and Ustream provides all participants the ability to rate limit contributions that are too fast for readers to read. Although these approaches can be effective strategies, it would be insightful to examine their effect on message quality; perhaps when people know they’re being restricted in sending more substantive posts they might try harder? It would be fascinating to gather data regarding this and see whether rate limiting does make a difference or not.