Chatter, chit chat, chat etc is all the same.
We have added private messaging and a chat room so people can chat to their hearts content. When they do it in threads, the threads become diluted and often worthless.
The "Open" forum was set up for all those questions that do not have a specific home but are in some way DR related. If you take a good look at all the forums you will get an idea of what goes in what forum.
Forum rules:
99.9% of people don't need reminding and the other 0.1% will ignore the written rules regardless of how hard you try to enforce them
The basic rule is that you post a question (DR related) and someone gives you an answer relating to your original question.
Yes, sometimes threads become a little skewed, in this case people are either directed to post a new question or we manually move the thread to it's correct home.
Bottom line, cut down on the chatter and keep the posts/threads DR related and we at DR1 will leave all alone
