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Topic: bring a chat room here on jsh!!
WWSjoker Joined Wed 01/23/08 Posts: 228	Sat 02/02/08 07:18 AM
Maybe you might understand that not everyone has the typing skills of a college professor..maybe you might understand just because someone isn't trying to woo someone with their incredible typing skills..if you "deciphor" the third grade english and see what their saying..you might be surprised what you see... Take a step back and see it for what it is...a different way to interact...you'll still have your hands full with your day job of deciphoring the stupidity in the forums..and the people who want a chat room will have their bombardment of ignorant statements like "ASL"..either way..everyone would be happy.. Think about it - and be honest. How many times a day do you read something posted in here and just shake your head in wonder?? There ya go. Pretty much constantly, assuming I can actually decipher the butchered third-grade English well enough to even comprehend what's attempting (usually unsuccessfully) to be said. On the other hand, I suppose it's not that difficult to decode "I'm bored" even when both words are misspelled. As for chatrooms -- Mike and VC have consistently said that the problem is in the monitoring. I've been on sites that use chatrooms, and all I've seen is 30 people all parroting "asl?" every time someone new comes in, and endlessly stepping all over each other's occasional stabs at a real subject. Chaos and stupidity don't suddenly become more palatable just because someone tosses out the words "chat room." If they ever do add chat rooms here, I won't be using them. I'm perfectly comfortable dealing with illiteracy one post at a time -- I don't need a room where people are tossing it at me from every direction.

trueokie2 Joined Mon 07/02/07 Posts: 1894	Sat 02/02/08 07:20 AM
Think about it - and be honest. How many times a day do you read something posted in here and just shake your head in wonder?? There ya go. Pretty much constantly, assuming I can actually decipher the butchered third-grade English well enough to even comprehend what's attempting (usually unsuccessfully) to be said. On the other hand, I suppose it's not that difficult to decode "I'm bored" even when both words are misspelled. As for chatrooms -- Mike and VC have consistently said that the problem is in the monitoring. I've been on sites that use chatrooms, and all I've seen is 30 people all parroting "asl?" every time someone new comes in, and endlessly stepping all over each other's occasional stabs at a real subject. Chaos and stupidity don't suddenly become more palatable just because someone tosses out the words "chat room." If they ever do add chat rooms here, I won't be using them. I'm perfectly comfortable dealing with illiteracy one post at a time -- I don't need a room where people are tossing it at me from every direction. Bravo... Spoken very well indeed..

Unknow Joined Sun 12/16/07 Posts: 2554	Sat 02/02/08 07:22 AM
rite folks lets go and find our chums..im not wasting anymore time here.i know what i wrote and said and it was all good.i praised jsh for being the best run site ever and how great it was.i purely mentioned it would be good to have a chat room.i didnt say it was for perving etc. its just nice to talk privately sometimes with a friend with out ears listening in. we could then use mics and cams...i wud love to see and hear all my friends on here.thats all i wanted to say..good bye

WWSjoker Joined Wed 01/23/08 Posts: 228	Sat 02/02/08 07:23 AM
start up a new forum :) rite folks lets go and find our chums..im not wasting anymore time here.i know what i wrote and said and it was all good.i praised jsh for being the best run site ever and how great it was.i purely mentioned it would be good to have a chat room.i didnt say it was for perving etc. its just nice to talk privately sometimes with a friend with out ears listening in. we could then use mics and cams...i wud love to see and hear all my friends on here.thats all i wanted to say..good bye

bad_girl Joined Tue 07/17/07 Posts: 67379	Sat 02/02/08 07:27 AM
rite folks lets go and find our chums..im not wasting anymore time here.i know what i wrote and said and it was all good.i praised jsh for being the best run site ever and how great it was.i purely mentioned it would be good to have a chat room.i didnt say it was for perving etc. its just nice to talk privately sometimes with a friend with out ears listening in. we could then use mics and cams...i wud love to see and hear all my friends on here.thats all i wanted to say..good bye WE LOVE YOU JEN AND WE LOVE ALL OF OUR FRIENDS PERVS WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Sat 02/02/08 07:27 AM
Maybe you might understand that not everyone has the typing skills of a college professor..maybe you might understand just because someone isn't trying to woo someone with their incredible typing skills..if you "deciphor" the third grade english and see what their saying..you might be surprised what you see... Take a step back and see it for what it is...a different way to interact...you'll still have your hands full with your day job of deciphoring the stupidity in the forums..and the people who want a chat room will have their bombardment of ignorant statements like "ASL"..either way..everyone would be happy.. de·ci·pher tr.v. de·ci·phered, de·ci·pher·ing, de·ci·phers 1. To read or interpret (ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter). This is a good example of the sort of thing I'm talking about. People who want a chat room would be better off to go where there is one. And just to clear up two points: I'm not trying to woo anyone -- I have a girlfriend. And I'm probably the worst typist you'll ever see. I do check for mistakes before I post, though. It's just as easy to get these things right.

AaronzDad Joined Sat 12/15/07 Posts: 10182	Sat 02/02/08 07:28 AM
Jen... I'm dead serious about this question. Is there some new kind of chat room I'm not familiar with? Do they have new features since I've been in one?? How is a chat room any more private than a public forum??? I'm not trying to be mean or sarcastic. I don't have any hidden agenda or meaning with this question. I'm asking for more information. I've never been in a chat room that used mics and cams. How would that work? Isn't that a one-on-one thing? But then isn't that just IM and not a chat room??

WWSjoker Joined Wed 01/23/08 Posts: 228	Sat 02/02/08 07:31 AM
Well excuse me for just wanting to get the point across.. well ill make sure to run a spell check before posting comments to my friends on the forums..

mike Joined Thu 07/13/06 Posts: 1391	Sat 02/02/08 07:37 AM
I know there are a lot of members who would love to have a chatroom on the site. We've had this feature requested this many, many times, and it is something we would love to provide if we felt we could do it right. The issue with having a chatroom on the site, though, is that we can't monitor it to the degree we feel is necessary to ensure a quality experience. Unfortunately, the forums already require quite a bit of moderating - to keep JSH the great place that it is, there's a tremendous amount of work done by the volunteer moderators and the admins to make sure that the forums remain friendly and fun. Moderating a chat room is 100 times harder, and we simply don't feel we can provide a great chat room experience without adequate moderation. Until we feel like we could provide a quality experience, we won't add chatrooms to the site. And unfortunately, I don't see us being able to provide a great chat experience anytime soon. Now, there have also been a LOT of personal attacks and insults on this topic. As you all should know, those attacks are against the forum rules. This is a warning to ALL of you - personal attacks will not be tolerated. Further attacks will result in a suspension of your posting privileges, so please, let's keep the discussion civil. All of you have, in fact, demonstrated very clearly on this topic exactly why we will NOT be adding chat rooms to the site.