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Please allow us to vote to timeout a room if the discussion starts degenerating or otherwise going off-topic. Unfortunately this is a mods only feature and mods aren't always around.

I think six votes in five minutes should be enough.

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Could you define "timeout"? –  Pops Oct 21 '10 at 17:31
    
The topic of a channel should be whatever is being discussed in the channel at the time. There is no such thing as a discussion going off topic. –  XMLbog Oct 21 '10 at 17:52
    
@Popular What happens when moderators hit the timeout picture as shown here -- the input box is hidden and numbers fade in counting down from 60 to 0. When this is finished, chatting may resume. –  badp Oct 21 '10 at 19:45
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