the ten minute rule was set up becuase of the users who sit in a forum not chatting, ppl leave themselves in a forum while they go do other things, or talk on the phone, or perhaps even just sit watching the other ppl chat in a room, gathering information about other users, at busy times this stops other users ( who do wish to chat ) from being able to enter the forum if we are full, all we are trying to do is encourage ppl to actually use the site to Chat