The Energon Pub

wee need a chatroom for this site! i dunno if it has one i havent seen it but we need so we can annoy eachother without having to wait, does anyone know how to make chatrooms? would anyone else be down for that?

I'd be down for an IRC channel. Even a 'shoutbox' would be cool on the boards.

i am disruptor96 and second this notion

a chat room would be fun

an official chatbox could be a mixed blessing.

the potential fun vs thhe probability of spamtard flamewar the likes of which this site hasn't seen sine the golden ages of seibertron.

also i don't think it would fit in with Ryans master plan or vision for this site. i could be totally wrong, but i think if he wanted one he would add it.

however there is nothing stopping (yet) us from talking in here

I am down with it, as long as there are no rules. I mean, if a flamewar erupts, we should be able to defend ourselves without retaliation from mods. But, I doubt Ryan would go for it. A shoutbox would be halfway there.

if ryan okays it, i own a chatroom account and i would set one up for seibertron

d'oh i hope ryan will, i havent talked to him just yet, or met him while i was posting stuff but maybe someday i might run into him

that would be cool! i want one!

Rodimus Prime wrote:I am down with it, as long as there are no rules. I mean, if a flamewar erupts, we should be able to defend ourselves without retaliation from mods. But, I doubt Ryan would go for it. A shoutbox would be halfway there.

ahhh no. A chatroom would be subject to the same forum rules and would be moderated the same. To do so otherwise would allow people to openly attack people in the chatroom that they may not do so on the forums. Bound to cause problems.

Same can be said for the shoutbox. N_V hit the nail on the head, I really can't see people not flooding it with idiotic pointless posts.

We already have the "Ladies" thread for that.

Burn wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I am down with it, as long as there are no rules. I mean, if a flamewar erupts, we should be able to defend ourselves without retaliation from mods. But, I doubt Ryan would go for it. A shoutbox would be halfway there.

ahhh no. A chatroom would be subject to the same forum rules and would be moderated the same.

And therefore it would suck. So no chatroom please.

I don't really see any point in having a chat room; it you have someone you want to talk quickly with, just use the personal messaging system the board has. On the outside, the idea has promise and could possibly be enjoyable, but I can also see where it would cause problems.

A shoutbox would be more manageable and would probably be used a lot more than a chatroom would, but I can see spam and possible flaming being a problem to moderate. In the end, I can't really see the end result justifying the means used to have it there unless it were intended as an unmoderated free-for-all. This in itself could cause problems but would probably be more fun as well

In the end, I'm partial to each idea.

wow i never thought of all that, maybe my idea wasn't so good after all lolz

A chat room would be cool, but i get the feeling it would be flooded with idiotic flame wars and childish bickering... i like the current system of add friends or foes on your profile then if you want to chat PM to there msn or similar.

Burn wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I am down with it, as long as there are no rules. I mean, if a flamewar erupts, we should be able to defend ourselves without retaliation from mods. But, I doubt Ryan would go for it. A shoutbox would be halfway there.

ahhh no. A chatroom would be subject to the same forum rules and would be moderated the same. To do so otherwise would allow people to openly attack people in the chatroom that they may not do so on the forums. Bound to cause problems.

Same can be said for the shoutbox. N_V hit the nail on the head, I really can't see people not flooding it with idiotic pointless posts.

We already have the "Ladies" thread for that.

very good point! we dont want a double of myspace! now do we?

Burn wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I am down with it, as long as there are no rules. I mean, if a flamewar erupts, we should be able to defend ourselves without retaliation from mods. But, I doubt Ryan would go for it. A shoutbox would be halfway there.

ahhh no. A chatroom would be subject to the same forum rules and would be moderated the same. To do so otherwise would allow people to openly attack people in the chatroom that they may not do so on the forums. Bound to cause problems.

Same can be said for the shoutbox. N_V hit the nail on the head, I really can't see people not flooding it with idiotic pointless posts.

We already have the "Ladies" thread for that.

at this pioint we could almost just take the last 20 pages of so of the ladies thread and slap the title "chatterbox" on it. but if we removed the male element form the ladies thread i think it would slip off the first page. besides, it confuses people that mostly guys post there. it grosses out and disturbes a whole lot more tho

That's be a neat idea.

Direct discussion (or lack thereof) with whoever happens to be online. XD

Doubledealer25 wrote:very good point! we dont want a double of myspace! now do we?

We don't have enough emos to rival MySpace, not since Subsonika vanished anyway.

Burn wrote:

Doubledealer25 wrote:very good point! we dont want a double of myspace! now do we?

We don't have enough emos to rival MySpace, not since Subsonika vanished anyway.

i don't think we have enough emos to rival neopets either