I had a difficult week and, unfortunately, rewrote the group guidelines with an uncharacteristically harsh tone. I've re-written the rewrite so it's clear and not too pissy.
I got the question, "why have a chat channel in the group if we aren't supposed to chat?" It's because we've not gotten it removed yet. The guidelines should now give a more clear explanation of why we don't use chat other than to provide the URL of new posts.
Alerting group members of a new post with simply a URL, will, ideally, encourage us all to visit the group and see if we can help.
If people open the group chat notification and see a bunch of chattering, they could decide to never look at the notifications at all. That isn't helpful in finding more helpers on the group. And without helpers, the group can't do what we want it to do.
Thanks all for making this group the success it is.