I didnt realize there was this thread…
The idea is to not jam up SOTAWATCH with comments and live chatter. I thought it would be good to have live comments that, people who chose to be a part of, are able to converse live. If you don’t want to, you don’t need to be a part of it. Personally, I find live chats to be helpful, and a part of the fun of the activity: I like to chat with others.
There are a number of times where someone requests a different band. Personally I feel guilty if I were to post something like that.
N0MAP sums it up in the thread linked above:
“That said, I think a Slack channel’s main benefit would be similar to that offered by the new DMR SOTA Link project: a real time ad-hoc communication tool. Slack offers some additional advantages too: the fact that it’s text based makes it asynchronous, for instance. The fact that people use the spotting system to post things other than spots indicates there’s desire/need for that kind of communication. “Go back to 40m” “Running 2hrs late” “Mountain lion on summit QRT” etc.”