What can we do to encourage people to come onto the conferences?

I mean, if you see that there is clear evidence that person x is causing immediate harm, beyond reasonable doubt in your opinion, wouldn't a temporary bann work until a final decision has been made?

Also, I suggest a limit on chat, where only 1 chat can be submitted every 2 seconds. That would mitigate a lot of spam we have been seeing recently.

Moderators can ban people, but if you don't want to do it...
HM, it means that something is wrong, english channel belongs to english group.
It will be nice if you just ban spammers, if not, conferences will not be popular any more, at least an official english channel.

Oh no, it's not about I wouldn't want to ban, it's just not usual here to ban people without agreeing with the rest of the staff. That's why I would suggest a function for moderators so we could ban people only from conferences.

pff, so you will also have to ask other mods, if you can ban someone on conference channel.
I understand that this function could be useful, but if you have to ask with others, it won't work.

I don't have to ask others, but I'm not the only member of the team you know. That is why we are a team, to discuss most things. Anyway if someone isn't a member of the forum but often goes to the conferences, he can't be banned from the community.

Why not?
If someone spams there, he can be banned here as well, especially when we can't ban someone only on conferences, as I said, this channel belongs to english group.
I guess, it isn't so hard to understand how to not be annoying person...
If someone wants to spam, he can create his own channel.
And of course you should talk with other mods, but you can just discuss when you can block spammers.
It will be really slowly reaction if you have to discuss all the time about all spammers.
We had the same problems on the polish channel.

No no, Balteam, you misunderstood my last post :) he hasn't posted a single thing to the forum. Due to this fact, we can not ban him. If we banned him from the forum, I guess he wouldn't be able to join the conference either. But since he isn't a member of the forum itself, it's literaly impossible to ban because from where?

Hmm, you're right.
I even forgot about it...

You could invite him here I guess, and he'll post something hopefully, or he'll join at least.

I hope not :P

better not yeah. How dare you make this suggestion!

So i think part of the problem of everything really comes back to having only a client that can work on WIndows. This reminds me of the 2000's lol and by this I mean early 2000s

nah. I think we're only talking about in general that less people come to the conference, not how many users have elten

True, the ratio has no comparison, even if 100 users were online, maybe 4 or 5 would be on conferences max and some of them would be on private channels too, so the access is kind of minimised.

Private ones aren't shown I guess?

Ye, private channels are not shown, and a lot of people just call to each other and in the end public channels are less popular.

oh, didn't relize that. I'm fairly new here too so.

You can get the private channels to show, but then you'd need the password for those which have password protection, so you'd have to be invited to one by a friend or some such.

Oh makes sense. no point to just show them without a reason. then