Problem NOT solved. Monday night at 8:30pm Central US time I created a channel named "General". After an initial period of about twenty minutes in which five people joined to see what the channel was for (general chat of course) the channel lay silent for eight hours. During that time there were (I counted) fifty eight posts (49 of which in the first twenty minutes). The creation of the channel was announced in New Player Assistance and Marketplace so anyone there knew it existed. During all that time, chat went on as usual in the other system channels. As I previously posted, chat is spontaneous and if someone wants to make a "general" comment to the community why would they make it to only four or five people in General Chat when fifty or sixty people are monitoring the Marketplace?Perhaps people who want to keep market strictly for buying/selling should open a new market channel. As a player made one you can kick peopl out if they don't do what you want. Problem solved.