Stop Group Chat & IM

There needs to be a way for owners of a group to be able to allow or disallow chat/IM within their group - No different than allowing to send/receive notices to the group.

Owners of large groups are always suseptable to spam and vulgar residents that do not respect the boundaries of the group they belong to. Group owners need this ability - please comment.

Thank you!

i would love to have that ability my one group has over 500 members and no way to stop spammers if they start booting them from the group does not do it untill htey log out they still have the ability to chat

Here is a JIRA issue regarding this. The main issue is for group members to be able to turn off group IM/chat, but it also has a subtask to allow group owners to create roles that disallow group chat.

Don't forget to login (upper right of JIRA screen) and vote for this issue!

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-64

Well, since they basically ripped off the chat system from IRC (probably Hybrid by the looks of it), that is already implemented---theres just no button for it. Making buttons for that kind of thing shouldnt take even an incompetent monkey more than a couple of hours. 20 minutes for someone who's familiar with IRC commands.

In addition if a group is free to join then booting persistant spammers is futile as they are able to rejoin right away. Id also like to see the ability to ban people from groups.