Chat

Invitation to a chatroom is only upon skating with us and only for active dedicated skaters. Skaters that become inactive and or disappear are removed by the end of the year as part of group and account maintenance.

In order to keep the chat healthy and light the following is expected:

App choice

The choice for Signal-appe was due to being cross-platform with focus non-profit, e2e encrypted, private, secure, free, opensource, without correlation and tracking to social media to ensure the users privacy. The app is available for desktop as well as mobile clients and provides linking features.

Objectives

Plan, support manage events and last minute event meetup
Exclusively for skaters that are part of Toronto Bladers groups and actively skating
To communicate live gps skating events using hauk to help meeting up
To keep the group members closer to each other and build strong bonds
Share on topic skating news, media, tips, videos, pictures
Giveaways, trade personal stuff, etc
The chat should not be used to make random invitations for individual sessions and contribute to group fragmentation.

Off topic

Please keep all off topic chat, private with the skaters engaged with and on it. When a matter is not of general group interest, please message recipient of the message in private.

Events

Always follow the calendar and invitations sent by the organizers as well as ask clarifications about the event.

Flood

To avoid flood and when possible always address the person that posted a message, in private, unless the subject is of everyone’s interest. The idea is, to post publicly and receive feedback privately when the matter is not of general interest. (feedback, sale, trade, deal, personal talk, question about someone, stuff, etc)

Deals

Deals, sales, trades, giveaways, of personal items are always welcome to be advertised in the group. Post your message publicly in the organizing platforms, chat, forum, wall, etc and address the interested person in private. Once the item is done, please remove the advertised message (if technically possible) in order to maintain the communication light, clean and avoid others to go looking for something that is not available anymore.

Avoid sending too many messages that can be sent as one larger message only. Fragmenting the message, contributes to flood. It is preferable to send a larger message at a time.

If you have very large text to share, please consider using a pastebin service such has privatebin or privatepaste or defuse with expiry time and share only the link of your long posted message.

Business

Over the years we have all met skaters that have used different local stores for their skating needs and many have have good and bad experiences in both stores. Feel free to recommend a store or product another skater, use the store merchandising and talk about your experiences but we would like to kindly ask to do it outside of the Toronto Bladers platforms (chat, wiki, platforms, social media, etc) in order to keep the group neutral towards these business which have had their ongoing politics between them.

If we are ever sponsored, this guideline will be reviewed and changed.

Chats

Bladers chat (closed)
Slalom chat experimental
Wizard chat experimental
Organizers chat exclusive