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Offline TopAce

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on: August 03, 2003, 05:14:34 pm
I have an idea, that I hope wouldn't be a great and expensive business to do:

I think many of us like the 'Who's online' window. Wouldn't it be possible to make a chat room for those who are not browsing the forum, only waiting have their question asked?

Just for fun, I think it would be good to have a stuff like that.
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Reply #1 on: August 03, 2003, 05:31:49 pm
..........................

Bad idea. For many reasons.
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Offline TopAce

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Reply #2 on: August 03, 2003, 05:34:34 pm
for example?
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Reply #3 on: August 03, 2003, 05:43:57 pm
It's very hard to moderate a chat room. Anyone would say anything, and people would sign up as members just to start gossiping about their girl/boyfriends... :-/
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Offline Blue Lion

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Reply #4 on: August 03, 2003, 05:47:06 pm
Why are you guys watching who's online?
 

Offline Stealth

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Reply #5 on: August 03, 2003, 07:07:38 pm
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Why are you guys watching who's online?


why shouldn't we be.

i've always found it interesting to see who else is viewing the forums
 

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Reply #6 on: August 03, 2003, 07:09:04 pm
Why don't you just go sit in #nodewar in mIRC and watch the Who's Online in IE. Much simpler.
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Offline Blue Lion

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Reply #7 on: August 03, 2003, 07:13:52 pm
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why shouldn't we be.

i've always found it interesting to see who else is viewing the forums


Because instead of looking at who else is posting, you could be posting yourself? I dunno, maybe I'm just odd.
 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #8 on: August 03, 2003, 07:36:22 pm
Well it's useful to find out who, if anyone, is viewing a thread you've just started.
 

Offline Kamikaze

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Reply #9 on: August 03, 2003, 08:18:34 pm
It'd be rather easy to implement, but pointless. The board is basically a slow chat. BTW: why the who's online in particular?
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Reply #10 on: August 04, 2003, 05:11:59 am
because it came to my mind first as where a chat room would be good, at forums, you can write anywhere and anywho you want.
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Reply #11 on: August 04, 2003, 06:45:09 am
The board is, like Kamikazie said, a slow chat, but with one important factor: past posts are viewable.

This feature by itself is why forums are so much more cohesive a place to communicate than chat rooms are.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #12 on: August 04, 2003, 11:10:45 am
Hey! #nodewar is very cohesive.

We've assimulatized the WS IRC people, as well as having the normal NW rabble.
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Reply #13 on: August 04, 2003, 01:02:18 pm
Yeah, but anyone who joins the channel can't get any sort of feel for the history of the place, now can he? :doubt:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
  

Offline J.F.K.

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Reply #14 on: August 06, 2003, 05:58:06 am
Both have their uses, but it seems to me that in a place which is fairly slow by necessity (members scattered throughout time zones), a more 'concrete' type forum is more suitable. I'd stick with this and just keep ICQ or Trillian open, seems workable to me. :)
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