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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....

Obvious that laurence will want to expand the size of his network, but it is non-profit, he just does it for fun, and he's setting aside some of the problems people have with it, which seems fair.

Seems to me like someone really wants to sell their product and is trying to convince everyone that they really should have it.

Those that say no mean no, for our own reasons.
Those that say yes have their reasons.

The end.

LaurenceCC wrote:
> M16 wrote:
> No.

I think that it would destroy the quality
> discussions that we
> already have on FOG. Yes there will still
> be posts but if everyone
> is chatting to eachother about game
> sin a chatroom, they’re not
> going to do the same on the FOG
> again.

Also, I have a few people
> on MSN so that does me
> fine.

You are clearly worried that chat will become too much of a
> success and destroy the forums. To be pefectly honest, there is more
> chance of pigs flying!!!! There is NO CHANCE at all that could
> happen! No way.

Okay, maybe it wouldn't. I'm just saying "No" for my vote. Even if there was a chatroom I doubt if I will be in there much. Still, for the people who don't have MSN etc. an SR chatroom could prove useful. Who knows?

I know, it just got confusing with all manner of beeps and boings going off and messages popping up.

I got scared and hid under the desk until it went away.

Sell your product!
Sell it!

I have never changed my nick on SR Goatboy. Unless your talking about MSN? I have to be M16 for you FOG people, Dan for my mates and BUGSIE because people know me as that becuase I graff it. Sorry.

M16 wrote:
> No.

I think that it would destroy the quality discussions that we
> already have on FOG. Yes there will still be posts but if everyone
> is chatting to eachother about game sin a chatroom, they’re not
> going to do the same on the FOG again.

Also, I have a few people
> on MSN so that does me fine.

You are clearly worried that chat will become too much of a success and destroy the forums. To be pefectly honest, there is more chance of pigs flying!!!! There is NO CHANCE at all that could happen! No way.

I would say "You M16" but I couldnt be sure it would be you 4 minutes later.

*s*

Darkness_2K wrote:
> No, its just that, oviously, you are biased. If a majority of people
> don't want it, it will be a wate of time and effort.

Well, I didn't have in mind that the majority of SR customers would use it.. if that was the case, then we would not be able to cope at all with the demand, and it'd be the most popular set of chatrooms on any IRC network ever! That is never going to happen. And I have already said we will do as much of the work as we are asked to - so if the webmaster doesn't want to spend time and effort on it, then that would not be a problem either!

I'm obviously biased too, but then I like using chat just as much as this forum, but laurence is right about it not needing loads of people to make a chat a success - if everyone on the site wanted it, you could have hundreds of users in a room, which would be bad. There were 8 or 9 people in there last night, all of whom seemed to like it (and have so far voted yes)