Methinks

[lordrand11]

We need a shoutbox on EP in my opinion

[Knightshade]

shouted down we had chat at one time my idea it failed horribly with no way to moderate it banned members getting on chat and it was costing the site owner money so it was done away with.

[foggy_han]

Shoutbox? You mean like a hangout to shout at each other, or a thread to make complains?
Either way, I do not see the point of neither. This is such a nice place, why would that be needed?
If you have a problem or need help in some matters, the "personel" here is kind, they would not bother if you ask.
(I am pretty sure of it. )

[Knightshade]

Shoutbox? You mean like a hangout to shout at each other, or a thread to make complains?
Either way, I do not see the point of neither. This is such a nice place, why would that be needed?
If you have a problem or need help in some matters, the "personel" here is kind, they would not bother if you ask.
(I am pretty sure of it. )

I am pretty sure what he means by shout box is a chat box similar to what some anime sites such as this one uses it's hard to miss on the right of the screen


http://www.animeratio.com/

[Cookie Monster]

Personally, I don't like the idea too much since a shoutbox may detract activity from the forums.

[Muscab]

Peeps can spam shoutbox. With many folks visit the forum every day, the shoutbox will get filled every seconds. Nuff said.

[Rockstar1983]

Having experienced the chatbox when it was here, I would also be against a ShoutBox. I feel it would quickly become a "DerpBox" or a "SpamBox".

EP is great "as is". If it's not broke, let's not fix it.

[Knightshade]

Having experienced the chatbox when it was here, I would also be against a ShoutBox. I feel it would quickly become a "DerpBox" or a "SpamBox".

EP is great "as is". If it's not broke, let's not fix it.

I still promote the benefits that HEALTHY chat could bring to the forums it could cut down on spam/repeat threads people could ask and be linked to the forum page for the help they need overall a healthy chat box would be good, BUT the problems are it is hard to moderate if it was possible to moderate it would create more work for staff members (that are possibly already overworked) and without moderation tends to turn into a trolls dream and the average users headache.

The ultimate decision belongs to the staff, but as someone who has has a similar idea come to temporary fruition, I have seen the bad side and stand against this unless it is agreed upon by the staff and can be implemented in a cost effective and moderatable way. for reference on how my chat idea went over with every one see this thread.

[Mistral]

I still promote the benefits that HEALTHY chat could bring to the forums it could cut down on spam/repeat threads people could ask and be linked to the forum page for the help they need overall a healthy chat box would be good, BUT the problems are it is hard to moderate if it was possible to moderate it would create more work for staff members (that are possibly already overworked) and without moderation tends to turn into a trolls dream and the average users headache.

The ultimate decision belongs to the staff, but as someone who has has a similar idea come to temporary fruition, I have seen the bad side and stand against this unless it is agreed upon by the staff and can be implemented in a cost effective and moderatable way. for reference on how my chat idea went over with every one see this thread.

It actually promoted repeat requests, because unlike the forum proper, there's no permanent and readily-accessible record of previous chat strings. We ended up with people asking questions, getting responses, then other people asking the very same question. Since we couldn't just link or look up the previous requests for help, other users would have no way of knowing that your question was already asked ten or twenty times before. Linking a single blank chatbox is far less helpful than linking an entire previous thread dedicated to that question, including answers and further information.

[Knightshade]

It actually promoted repeat requests, because unlike the forum proper, there's no permanent and readily-accessible record of previous chat strings. We ended up with people asking questions, getting responses, then other people asking the very same question. Since we couldn't just link or look up the previous requests for help, other users would have no way of knowing that your question was already asked ten or twenty times before. Linking a single blank chatbox is far less helpful than linking an entire previous thread dedicated to that question, including answers and further information.

As I have said the decision is up to you guys but the point I was trying to make is that in my opinion repeated questions in a
chat environment is not as bad or as costly to server space as postings of multiple threads on the same topic such as the countless how do I run .ecm threads when in chat you can't link them to the previous chat with the answer they are looking for you can link them to the forum page with the answer thus promoting forum use by way of the chat box,but I digress as this is just my point of view and as I have already pointed out in my comment above I have seen with the previous chat what would happen if there was no way to moderate such a feature which I myself have no desire to relive.

[lordrand11]

then why not the option of toggle switch for the shoutbox in your profile like show/hide or something?

[Spose']

then why not the option of toggle switch for the shoutbox in your profile like show/hide or something?

Woudln't help the problem at all.

[lordrand11]

Wouldn't hinder anyone at all either. Those that wish to ignore can do so. And those that wish to use it could. Or a shoutbox for your EP friends list?

[Spose']

The shoutbox should be similar o something Near-Reality the RSPS has. Where you can ban users from it and delete messages that people have, i don't know what we had before but that type could be monitered well not to mention you could set requirments to use it. like 150 posts or something.

[MaslowK]

I second the notion of a chatbox. Only in the form of a revived IRC channel. Much easier to moderate, assuming you have enough "trusted" users to do so at various times of day. I'm guessing that's possibly why it went down in the first place?