This seems like a ridiculous question to ask given the existence of the message admin feature, but I managed to get sucked into a discussion about this in the chat rooms and would like some clarification.
As room owners, we're given tools to move messages out of the room into a different, more suitable room. So when I saw a very long discussion on religion in the JavaScript chat room, I relocated the discussion to
Casual Chat
This is the room for casual chat. Long lines of code will be moved to bin or respective rooms. Enjoy your stay!
This was followed by one of the Casual Chat room owners joining JavaScript and insisting that I should not be moving casual chat messages to the Casual Chat room. Instead, apparently I should have moved the messages to one of the (many?) "bin" rooms.
I'm not sure I understand this reasoning. The description for Casual Chat indicates that on-topic, programming discussions will be moved to the relevant rooms, yet they don't want off-topic, non-programming related discussions moved to that room?
What's the community's thoughts on this? It was always my understanding that channels should remain on-topic and messages should be moved to more appropriate rooms if not. Arguably, a casual chat room is entirely off-topic for SO, but I don't have a problem with it being there — it serves a purpose by keeping the on-topic rooms clean.
This is *NOT* a place for 'Live Support', ask questions on the main site.