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Last month, I proposed an [experiment to freeze The Sand Trap (TST) for 3 weeks](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26302/make-chat-great-again), to see whether The Nineetenth Byte can handle being the primary chat room again. And 3 weeks ago, [TST was frozen](https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/65396168#65396168) so that the experiment could happen.  Now, it's time to discuss the results of the experiment. 

(For reference, TST is now unfrozen, and TNB's room description has been updated to include the reference to TST again.)

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## Survey Questions

_If answering, please try to answer all of these_

* Before the freeze, would you say that on-topic messages were being drowned out by "noise" or general conversation?
* During the freeze,  would you say that on-topic messages were being drowned out by "noise" or general conversation?
* Before the freeze, did you feel confident/able to/willing to express that a conversation should be moved/halted?
* During the freeze, did you feel confident/able to/willing to express that a conversation should be moved/halted?
* During the freeze, did you feel that message quality dropped significantly?
* During the freeze, did you feel that the level of noise was excessive?
* On a scale of 1 to 5, how enjoyable was TNB before the freeze? (1 being "I hated it" and 5 being "TNB is the only thing in my life that I care about what do you mean there's things outside of TNB?").
* On a scale of 1 to 5, how enjoyable was TNB during the freeze? (1 being "I hated it, I wished that the freeze never happened" and 5 being "I loved it, it was the best thing ever, I wish TST was frozen 24/7").

_If answering, these questions are optional_

* Do you feel that the RO roster for TNB is adequate to handle the management of off-topic conversations?
* Would you support a permanent TST freeze?
* During the freeze, did you feel like contributing more or contributing less to TNB?
* Was the freeze something that you noticed? Or, if it was possible to completely ignore pinned messages, did it seem like TNB was going as usual?

Feel free to add any other observations/data/feelings about TNB/TST/The freeze in your answers.

I actually prefer being able to talk about slightly off-topic stuff in The Nineteenth Byte.