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"VOTE HERE FOR CHAT (OR NOT)"

Should Special Reserve have a chat room?

Or not.

One "man" one vote.

State you arguments too.

(Several days have now elapsed)

Here is the result of the Vote:

These guys voted NO:
Ant
Fishstick
Darkness
Bronzefinger
Sniper
Goatboy
Webmaster
M16
Terry

These guys voted or interpreted as YES:
Reaper
er-no
The Game
Monkey
Laurence
pb
Venom
Lewq
Morrigan
Time Warp
Grix

These guys are on the FENCE:
Batistuta
Tony
Tarrant
Sheepy
Edgy - who doesn't really care cos he doesn't use chatrooms much at all....

Toni (er-no) wrote:
> can I set up a poll for this thing please??

NO THANKS er-no!

We'll take the views from this thread.

Chat is great, people who have Mac can converse with PC owners, it was great talking to people like Er-No and Venom who don't have messenger...

I vote that the chat stays.

The Game

Well I want the deciding vote Tony, can I set up a poll for this thing please??

please??

I dont think the chat rooms would be used for gaming tings much. just for general talk when people are bored.

The idea isn't for it to replace the forums...
It's just easier to talk and have...sensible discussions about the gaming industry *cough* on there, but the forum is still around for all the normal uses.

Toni er-no

Are you going to vote?

Or not?

**er-no runs and hides in a corner, rocking back and forth, with his voting slip in one hand**

I am in Netscape so sorry about the name (can't change it)

I say no. I don't like chatroom's really. It's too easy to miss topics of interest. The slow pace lets us have long debates or discussions, or games even (Guess the sketch for example). This would be impossible in a chatroom, as the messages would probably be short, and there would be no way of knowing what people have said while you are away.

As a student, I like the fact that this is permanent, so whenever I can get on I can see what the hot topics are.

Another advantage is that if someone has a request or a games problem the post can stay up until someone has an answer.

It will be interesting to watch this thread over the next few days.

Then I'll post a summary of the votes.

That's what I said before about it working together with a forum, it's not possible to do long stories and threads on there, but just chatting to a friend on a forum can be very slow, so there's choice for the users.
Hum..losing battle here.