Chat Room Poll

[Front-Ranger]

The chat room poll is back! Please give us your feedback on this feature. Thank you!

[Brokeback_Dev]

i voted other because these days there's never anyone in the chat room to chat with!  I used to use it a lot about a year ago. 

[RouxB]

Back in the day I lived in the chat room-it was a fun, happy, jacknasty place. Slowly my chat buds disappeared so I did as well. I miss chat.

 

[Kerry]

I voted:

1. I tried it only once

and

2. I don't because I'm afraid of being attacked

I'm not exactly afraid of being attacked, as such. "Wary" might be a more appropriate word. The one and only time I entered the Chat Room, there was someone in there who was clearly and demonstrably not overjoyed by my presence, so I soon hightailed it outa there, never to return.

Once burned!

There's also a matter of the time difference for me, who lives in Australia.

[ifyoucantfixit]

     What Roux said.  Plus some bad experiences.

[Ellemeno]

What Dev and Roux said.  I would love chat to be an active happy place again.  I almost never think to go in there now, though I used to.

[Katie77]

I did use the chat room frequently earlier in the year, but there was some unfriendliness, not only in my conversations, and there was a bit of discomfort when some people wanted to go into another room to get away from someone who was in the main room. It was becoming a little "clicky".

I assume all of that sorted itself out, and I often look in to see if there is anyone in there, but usually there is not. I was not sure if that was because of the time difference as I live in Australia or whether it was just not getting used anymore.

I think its a great idea if used properly, but, unfortunately,  it seems to cause a bit of conflict which can make some people unhappy.

[tampatalon]

I love the Chat Room but my schedule makes it impossible.
I work 7 pm to 7 am overnite so I am either sleeping or
getting ready to go back to work 

TampaTalon^">

[souxi]

I did use the chat room frequently earlier in the year, but there was some unfriendliness, not only in my conversations, and there was a bit of discomfort when some people wanted to go into another room to get away from someone who was in the main room. It was becoming a little "clicky".

I assume all of that sorted itself out, and I often look in to see if there is anyone in there, but usually there is not. I was not sure if that was because of the time difference as I live in Australia or whether it was just not getting used anymore.

I think its a great idea if used properly, but, unfortunately,  it seems to cause a bit of conflict which can make some people unhappy.

Katie I moderate in chat and there is a feature whereby you can click on a users name and ignore that user if they are causing trouble and upsetting people. Do they not have such a feature here? Also certain users like myself, have the ability to eject a user who is causing trouble. Is that something that happens here?
I saw Philip mention IRC chat. I,m not a great lover of that. I used to use an IRC chat room at one time, and if you right clicked on another users name, you could see their IP information.  Where I moderate, only staff can see that.
So you need two things, an ignore feature and users who can moderate the chat rooms. You also need a contact button so that users can report any abuse. 

[injest]

Katie I moderate in chat and there is a feature whereby you can click on a users name and ignore that user if they are causing trouble and upsetting people. Do they not have such a feature here? Also certain users like myself, have the ability to eject a user who is causing trouble. Is that something that happens here?
I saw Philip mention IRC chat. I,m not a great lover of that. I used to use an IRC chat room at one time, and if you right clicked on another users name, you could see their IP information.  Where I moderate, only staff can see that.
So you need two things, an ignore feature and users who can moderate the chat rooms. You also need a contact button so that users can report any abuse. 

well you also need clear rules on what consistutes abuse...around here it seems to be subjective. two members can post the exact same post, using the same words and one will be judged abuse, the other as perfectly acceptable....depends on who you are and which table you sat at in high school (apparently)

People forget that no matter what table you get to sit at, you are the same person.  If you didn't get to sit at the popular girls table, bullying people now wont fix it...high school was a LONG time ago...time to let it go.