I am not computer savvy... so I dont know what it would entail to keep it only open to nighttrain members.... but why on earth would be open to anybody who did not pay for the membership?
sounds half assed
It sure does.
How the hell can there be no moderator? We'll all been online now for 20 years. The internet is filled with "look at me" idiots. You have to have someone policing things somewhat.
However, how would that moderation work? If the moderation was to weed out the stupid questions, that's fine. But if anything critical or any hard questions also didn't get through, that's no good. I don't know how interesting it would be to have a chat where the only discussion is how it was super awesome when they came to <your town> and you had a great time. Who cares?