How does this work? I've never joined the private games. Do most of them share the same PW? I see generic requests for pw - but some people post one for their one-off games. If there is a generic password - could someone send it to me please?

I prefer to see some sort of visual indication ABOVE the map that someone has posted something new to the chat log. I miss SO many messages in a game because I didn't bother to read the chat.