Roleplay related chatbox?

[Deleted]

I noticed here more than old sites the chatbox is very non-roleplay related, which is great, but I think it would be a good idea to have a roleplay related chatbox where you can discuss ideas quickly & tag people in threads easier.

Just a thought? It doesn't have to have a solid location, but perhaps a link to one?

[CaℳI]

I never really though about that. Normally the people on the chatbox will spend some time chatting about their day, or movies, or music and then move on to talking about their plots and such. I know sometimes the chatbox goes crazy with Pokemon talk, or Minecraft related topics which I know many people here play, and many do not as well though.

I think since we go back and forth with roleplay chat and other topics it makes sense to have it all in one (especially since people wouldn't want to use two chatboxes at the same time) but I can see where you're coming from.

[Midnight]

The thing about that is how overcrowded and chaotic it would become. Two people would be talking about one plot, three about another, two about another plot separate from that, and the whole thing would just be extremely hard to follow.

This is why there's a plot board, though, for having these things and keeping them organized.

I can't honestly say I see the point.

[Deleted]

The thing I find is that my questions and things get either ignored, or pushed up by the talk about minecraft and such. If two people are having a conversation about minecraft and are talking back and forth as they play I don't see why it can't be suggested they take it to chatangos PM or a separate method of chat like AIM or such. It's hard enough since we aren't allowed to discuss plot ideas, but I guess if I want to advertise an open thread or something like I can't even put that anywhere except in a thread on the forum that ends up having to be moved to archives within a couple of hours.

I guess I find it annoying that I can't get a word in because the talk of other topics comes in and anything I say gets ignored or lost.

[CaℳI]

I do agree that I am regularly annoyed by constant chat of minecraft, but since most of the members play minecraft and will probably be annoyed with us saying it's annoying...there isn't much that can be done about it. Plus I've found that normally if I mention on the chat that I don't really have any interest of talking about minecraft, MOST of the time (not always but normally) the other members are polite about it and agree to chat about something else for a little. C:

However if you ever have a question, even though it may take longer to get a reply, feel free to message me, Mid, or any of the mods or even post in the help section.

[Midnight]

No threads end up being moved to the archives unless they're MONTHS old or they've needed to be moderated and have been locked, so I'm not sure where you're getting that?

I don't really see things getting ignored when I'm around, so I'm not sure what's up there. On that note, too, I don't think you're getting ignored per se, because I don't really think any of our members are rude enough to flat-out ignore someone - rather, they just didn't see it because they were too absorbed in their own conversation. No, it's not necessarily right, but it happens to all of us (both on not being seen and being too absorbed), and there's nothing flat-out wrong with it, either. I don't encourage it, but sometimes it's not something we can help.

The chat does get chaotic, but that's because there are sometimes at least 5 of us on, so it's going to get chaotic, I'm aware of that, but I don't see the point in making a chatbox for something that we have a board specifically for (and before you point at the chat board, it's for more permanent things than the chatbox). I also feel like a second chatbox would cause confusion for new members, because we used to have two for people who didn't have flash, and it ended up becoming filled with spam, trolling, questions, guests thinking it was an in-character chatbox, me getting whined at to get rid of it, etc.

Also, I don't know where you're getting questions and such out of this when the original point was a plotting chatbox? Yes, this chatbox is chaotic, but I can't imagine how hellish a plot chatbox would be.

[Deleted]

(I'm talking like if the open thread gets snapped up quickly enough)

I guess what I find is that as a new member to the site I feel ignored and left out of all of this non-site-related conversations and it becomes difficult for me to feel accepted or have a place I can go and feel accepted in terms of the site. I find that as a new member to the site it is so off-topic or out there that as much as I too enjoy minecraft and pokemon and such that I can't fit in or talk about the conversation at all. It makes me feel left out.

but I guess it's understandable. I just think there's the potential for other new members like myself to feel left out and like they don't fit in because the major method of communication is filled consistently with stuff not related to the site.

[Midnight]

Well, the thing about that is there are going to be off-topic conversations - that's mostly the whole point of the chatbox: to just.. chat. It doesn't have to be about the forum all the time, or we might all wear ourselves out. The boards are more for talking about the forum than the chatbox.

Anyone and everyone is free to join into the conversations, so I'm sorry you feel this way, but there's nothing I can do about it. If we made a plotting chatbox, then you might say the same thing because everyone else would be crowding in with their own plots.