Group chat also suffers from the same spam issues as email (well, not phishing, but unsolicited). It's particularly bad in Slack, because every message consumes

Group chat also suffers from the same spam issues as email (well, not phishing, but unsolicited). It's particularly bad in Slack, because every message consumes tons of space, even in compact modes (which most people don't use) them: put notification X in channel! me: okay, but let's keep it targetted and filter for important issues only them: you worry too much them: since we're doing X notifications, let's do Y! People need to know Y. me: okay, it's getting spammy now, need to rein this in them: yeah, you're right them: so, we're putting Z notifications in now, and expanding X and Y me: please, the horror. everyone will move to another channel them: but people need to know these things! me: does EVERYONE need to know that dev Foo changed status on jira ticket Bar? them: you're missing the point them: let's add more projects, and we tick this 'send notifications' box, right? me: no them: sure we do, that's what we do for other projects et al. In short order, a new channel is made for chat to avoid the spam, and the old channel become an unvisited dumping-ground for notifications. Then someone starts 'perhaps if we also put just the important notifications in the new channel'...