Photography Review chat room?

[Xia_Ke]

This site needs a chat room.

I agree. I usually "chat" through pm's here but, would be great if there was an actual chatroom. Lots of forums have chat rooms set-up. how hard would it be to add one here PJ? If not many an IRC room? Been a while since I've used IRC but was always great for chatting.

[Didache]

I agree ..and would use it frequently. I already use Mirc - a PR channel would be fine, unless there was a dedicated chatroom connected to the site.

Mike

[Frog]

I used to be a chat room addict.
It may not be bad when such a room is attached to a dedicated community as everyone that would attend would have the same interest.
However, I would be willing to bet a substantial sum that there would be those who would want to dominate conversations with their personal ideologies, political rants, and woe to me sob stories.
Its worth a try and with our scattered time zones would probably only attract a few at a time.

[SmartWombat]

I use Skype.

[Tel]

I'd go for an IRC room. I've moderated a small one before, if you need me.

[WsW-WYATT-EARP]

i have to say we have talked about this on multiple r/c forums - the consensus was always the same - that alot of good info would be lost in a chat room and we decided to keep the conversations to the boards - it was decided that if people wanted to chat or whatever there are too many instant messengers that will allow for a quick chat group to be set up

[Xia_Ke]

Hmmm, good point Ben, hadn't really thought about that. Most of the chatting I do with members here is "Where did you end up shooting today?", "How was work?", etc. NOw that you mention it, if we did set-up a chatroom there is a good chance of it turning into a spot for people trying to seek quick answers to their questions. There would would have to be some rules laid down against it if anything did get put together.

[Kajuah]

What is skype?

[SmartWombat]

Are you serious?
That's like saying "what is Google" !

Skype is a system for chat, and voip calls, and cheap landline calls.
We use it at work for calls from the UK to the developers in India.

www.skype.com

[Liz]

For what it's worth - I have gmail which I am very happy with and never had problems with it. It's google's form of email. It has a lot of features - one of which is a "chat" feature. It's not a chat room - but you can chat with anyone else who has google if you choose that feature. I've actually chatted with Lara a few times in the past since we both have google. I've never "chatted" with anyone else, and I don't know if more than one person can chat at a time.

Just fyi......trivia.....whatever....I know it doesn't answer the PR question!

Liz

[Lori11]

A group chat can be done on yahoo too, I am a manager on another type of site and rules can be made but trust me, I spend more time "policing" than chatting sometimes, it wears on you quick. I think it would be fine for the people here but I can only imagine the "drive by" questions....