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Kerm 
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 Topic: Chatroom maybe?Posted: 13 January 2007 at 12:19am |
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Considering the ammount of people who are on the forum at one time I
was thinking perhaps a little chatroom or Tagbox could be in order to
cut down the ammount of one line posts and that sort of thing, a place
where people can compare players all day long if they want to.
Either as a web-based thing intergrated onto the site or as an IRC style thing perhaps, fast flowing discussions on things like cricket can be pretty interesting. anyway its just an idea. Cheers, Chris |
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Clobber
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 12:28am |
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wouldn't the forum die off rather?
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Kerm
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 12:34am |
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Not really, forums and chatrooms have different uses, you cant have
properly structured long discussions on a chatroom, they work more for
fast flowing debates that fill the chatroom with one line posts. In the
same way if someone has something to say that they want everyone to see
they cant post that in a chatroom as it will be gone in 10 lines.
A few forums I have worked on have chatrooms attached and they have fairly different functionalities, I havent seen how many members CricketWorld has but the last one I was on had roughly 500 active members yet only about 30 of those used the chatroom, some people like them some don't, the quality of conversation tends to be slightly lower then on forums but assuming the people using it are relativly sensible there can be some good discussions. Would you like it if there were less "who is the best *inset anything*" and "player #1 vs player #2" around? well maybe not Idont know, was only an idea =P Maybe I should crawl back into my cave ^^ |
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Clobber
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 12:43am |
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it's rare that we have more than 12 registered members online so it might end up a quiet lonely place for some 14 year old waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting visitor with "A/S/L?"
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minimurali
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 1:22am |
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Too true Clobs!! The forum may have many members but a large percentage of those are people who haven't visited the forum in a long time, so I doubt there is enough people online to really have a steady conversation consisting of solely one liners.
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County Sim on extended break until I've got less work and more free time. When I have a specific date, I'll post it in the thread.
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slogger72N/O
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 7:30am |
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Doesn't seem like we have enough people, when I write this there are 3 people inline, that isn't gonna make great discussion is it
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Clobber
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 10:46am |
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depends who the 3 are!
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slogger72N/O
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 11:58am |
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Thats true, but when I next logged on ot was just me, that would be a poor discussion
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dips_december
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Posted: 13 January 2007 at 1:35pm |
I agree clobs then it might as well become Chatting world forums .
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Sledger
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Posted: 15 January 2007 at 6:40am |
Not necessarily lad , I've had some terrific debates with myself - sometimes I even end up agreeing with myself too! |
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Mental disintegration works for me !!
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Pietersen Fan
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Posted: 27 January 2007 at 11:09pm |
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yeh, i had a long winded conversation with myself last tuesday, i just agreed to disagree with myself
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check out the ultimate spinners guide - spinny.co.nr
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spin wizard
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Posted: 27 January 2007 at 11:37pm |
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Why bring this back up now????
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In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage.
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70_degree_spin
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Posted: 28 January 2007 at 1:41pm |
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it was just a joke spin wiz.
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minimurali
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Posted: 28 January 2007 at 3:33pm |
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I agree with SW, topic closed me thinks.
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County Sim on extended break until I've got less work and more free time. When I have a specific date, I'll post it in the thread.
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Pietersen Fan
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Posted: 06 February 2007 at 9:00pm |
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if people want to chat im sure -jp- clobs and slegder etc. are more than happy to let them exchange msn addresses
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check out the ultimate spinners guide - spinny.co.nr
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-JP-
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Posted: 06 February 2007 at 9:08pm |
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Indeed. It won't be something that's part of the forum anytime soon.
I used to run and admin chat rooms in the good old days of MSN Chat (anyone else remember that) but I'm not sure there are similar facilities on the web these days. Save for a massive multi-MSN chat, perhaps! |
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Pietersen Fan
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Posted: 06 February 2007 at 9:19pm |
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didn't msn chat get closed down?
i cant remember exactly but i seem to remember a big hoo-har about it about 5 years ago
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check out the ultimate spinners guide - spinny.co.nr
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-JP-
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Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:19pm |
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Yes, it was shut down but I've found an alternative and a way of having a chat room.
Only thing is, I have to run it myself so I'd only be able to open it up for maybe an hour or so each evening. Still not sure whether I should do anything with it though... |
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Kerm
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Posted: 06 February 2007 at 10:24pm |
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I've run a few on IRC networks, http://www.starchat.net for example, which can be fully moderated by an admin and moderated by bots or suchlike, I think battrick use one actually for any members that have seen that.
Saying that most of the replies are right, there wouldn't be enough demand for a full time chatroom although maybe an occasional thing could be good for the odd discussion, i'd use the player of the week thing as an example but thats probably not a good one considering the opinions of the forum =p |
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spin wizard
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Posted: 07 February 2007 at 6:16pm |
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I really think it best we leave the forum like it is! A chatroom might just kill the forum's sweetness a bit.
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In troubled times, being philosophical helps a great deal, it helps you to remain sane and not do any further damage.
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