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I was in contact with someone who knows these boards pretty well and they were mentioning that you might upgrade HT features that would include a "Chat" function.
My two cents....
This Board is great the way it is.... Looking at the costs to add something like that... I'm not real familiar with it...
However, I would say that I'm just happy the way it is now!
Besides... if a "Chat" Feature becomes available....many of us... including me... will not be able to access from work when were not busy!
I love this Board other than that...
Manoa
Last edited by damontucker; June 5, 2006, 07:25 PM.
Reason: cannot speak for everyone
The question comes up occasionally, but there are no plans to have a "chatroom" here at HawaiiThreads.
HawaiiThreads is a message board, a discussion forum, a place for threaded conversations built with messages that are (ideally, at least) well composed and effectively static (after the edit window passes). Members can participate in current topics regardless of when they're able to get online, and past topics are archived to serve as a searchable resource for members and visitors alike.
A chat room is ethereal, dependent on participants being online together (back in my IRC days, I'd hate conversations that began with, "Oh, you should have been online last night..."), and quite vulnerable to abuse (spammers if you're lucky, flame fests, TROs and libel suits if you're not).
Even with great help, it's a challenge at times cleaning up these forums after a spammer or troll barrels through. You'd have to have considerably more resources and free time to monitor a chat room twenty-four hours a day. Sure you could have disclaimers and warnings and the like, but how much fun is that? In short, "live chat" isn't the kind of experience I'm looking to provide here.
That's not to say I don't see the appeal of a chatroom. Sister site HawaiiStories has a very, very rudimentary chat feature. And I've experimented with various packages (including the one zztype has tested at Walaau.org). It's just that if I ever did contemplate "live chat," it'd be something distinct from HawaiiThreads.
You know what I really dislike about IM and chat? That I'm not rude enough to be able to quit the conversation easily. I may need to go cook, go to the bath, go do something else, but I just can't find a simple way to do it.
I'm probably one of the very few people who has never been in a chat room, has never had the desire to check one out and wouldn't have the slightest idea how to go about it even if I wanted to. I've never even sent a text message from my cell phone...no desire...no idea how to do it! My lack of experience with MySpace is in the MySpace thread!
You know what I really dislike about IM and chat? That I'm not rude enough to be able to quit the conversation easily. I may need to go cook, go to the bath, go do something else, but I just can't find a simple way to do it.
peeps do a
BRB
in that case.
not considered rude atoll
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