Chat room?

there's actually a decent amount of here at any given time.. is there any ability to get a simple chat room going for this site? Just curious- Im sure its been brought up before.

Or we could use IRC? Do anyone here use IRC? I do!

yeah...why not just use irc and start something like #wov or #wizard if it's not taken

edit: #wov is free on quakenet. if you are currently not using IRC...you can simple use http://webchat.quakenet.org/ and select this channel.

this should end well

Quote: sodawater

this should end well

I smell a hint of sarcasm. :)) :)) lol

I hate chat. Its where a bunch of people who have nothing
to say get together and say it all at once. Its as useless
as texting. Ever notice the people who text the most are
usually idiots? Thats where we live now, the morons are
talking to each other non stop.

It's a terrible idea because:

- It would cannibalize the posting that happens here.
- People would constantly be referring to things said in chat that no one would be able to verify.
- It would create (more) cliques, with the chatters being one group and the anti-chatters the other.

I have never seen this idea implemented and not have these issues pop up. And once there's a "feature" (even if it's destroying the culture of the site) if you take it away people will scream and protest. Better to not even start down that road.

I don't see chat working here. Most posters like a longer and more thoughtful response than chat gives. Add me to the 'chat haters' list. Didn't like it in the 1990s and still don't. Only time I found it useful was working in group settings when you need to get a message out or want a flashing message too short for an email when the person you need is gone.

I hate chatting for the same reason I hate talking
on the phone. You're under pressure to keep the
conversation going. I don't even have a phone
anybody can call me on. I have Google voicemail
where you can leave a message to call you. But I
have no phone thats turned on.

Buckminster Fuller had no telephone. He said it was
like having a rope around your ankle, anytime somebody
wanted you, they just jerked on the rope.

But EvenBob, by not having a phone, that mean I can not wake you up at 4 AM when I misdial.

For the sake of this thread, would be a good idea to make a pool out of it. But I am in the No Chat Group too, I have all sorts of chat accounts (ICQ, AOL, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Messenger, Google Talk, and Facebook but I only chat once in a while when I need to talk with someone about a specific thing, and other than that I feel quite a bit disturbed when I am reading an article on Facebook and the Facebook chat pops up and someone ask me various things .. I am not a big fan of empty talking and that would be a pool chat.

But yes, I find it a great Idea for someone to set up a IRC channel for this site, and that channel to be posted here on the WoV home page, so that the people who are in Yes Chat Group to go and have their fun there. - www . mibbit . com - is great for this purpose !

If we were only to suggest new features for this forum, I`d love to see a "Thanks" or some "Thumbs Up" / "Thumbs Down" buttons.

Quote: PlayHunter

For the sake of this thread, would be a good idea to make a pool out of it

For the sake of the admins/owners sanity I'd say never let the inmates run the asylum. I've helped to run online communities and putting feature ideas, especially destructive features like chat, to a vote is a bad way to run the site for all the reasons I originally stated on this subject.

If members want to chat I say let them exchange Yahoo Id's or whatever, but any sort of official WoV chat is a bad way to go.