My experiences with chatrooms are not positive. People tend to spend more time in a chatroom than focussing on what the board is really about. I've been to numerous boards where they had a chatroom and in the end the whole board was nothing BUT a chatroom. This is a photoshop forum and I like it to be focussed on that. I love Photoshop and love to exhange knowledge and that should be the major goal of the board. I vote against chat rooms.

Just my 2 cents

Bacardi

Perhaps I already voted, don't remember.

My idea is like Gaussian's. I mean: there are chat-rooms enough on the www, so why not meet there if you want to chat? You don't (at least I don't) go to a pub to find some book or go to the library to drink a beer. This here is about Photoshop and everything that orbits around it.
Just look at TG, and how even "active forums can turn into a chit chat elephant talk...
No, not for me.

UglyKaterpillar

Well, I haven't voted yet and I'm not sure that I will since either way I vote will possibly have an effect on people who have a definate "Yes" or "No" answer, and I'm pretty much middle-of-the-road on this one.

I suppose if there were a chat room on the site, I might pop in once in a while, but since I'm on the board mostly at work, then the visits would be far and few between. Visiting a static board at work is different than being in a live room in my opinion. I can browse the board at leisure, whereas a chat room would require alot more of my attention. Besides, I would surely hate to offend anyone by inadvertently ignoring them if/when they spoke to me and my eyes were elsewhere at the time (know what I mean?) Or this scenario: You're in a chat room & some rude newbie (who only signs up to get into the room) comes in and suddenly expects you to drop everything and solve all his problems for him, give him a serial number or three, then asks if you wanna cyber!" hehe Yes, it's happened before, to me even! [shocked]

There isn't a chat room now, and I really haven't found myself wishing there were, well, unless I'm REALLY in need of something to do, however, most of the time when I'm on the board there isn't anyone else signed on. I'd really hate to be stuck in a room talking to myself...

So yes or no it doesn' t matter to me, it's just a chat room after all.

Joy Foraker

Katerpiller (sorry I don't know your first name)

Just read your comments and I think you make a good point here:

Katerpiller wrote and I quote:
..."Or this scenario: You're in a chat room & some rude newbie (who only signs up to get into the room) comes in and suddenly expects you to drop everything and solve all his problems for him, give him a serial number or three, then asks if you wanna cyber!" hehe Yes, it's happened before, to me even! "

Then I read a few of your IM conversations on your moron page...what a hoot. I usually only IM with close friends so I don't get the variety of conversations.... Maybe direct communications isn't so good of an idea.
Maybe post and read is the most beneficial way to enjoy PS Guru after all.
Joy

UglyKaterpillar

Hi Joy,

Those Moron pages got their start about 3.5 years ago when I was still pretty fresh on the web. I started going into a chat room to get help with HTML and graphics and since it was on AOL, I ended up getting alot of idiots asking for off the wall crap. I really wanted to build a website, but I was pretty stumped for "content". Then after I got a real doozie of an IM, I decided to start posting some of them on the web. Solved the content issue AND helped me learn HTML. It helps to have thick skin, a sense of humor and maybe a bit of a mean streak when dealing with idiots. hehe

So yeah, I've had chat room experience. I still go into the same chat room on AOL sometimes, and I've met alot of great people from there. There's about 25 of us that meet in Vegas (or elsewhere, depends on who gets the idea) about once a year. There are also PLENTY of idiots who come into the room, but there's an 'Ignore' feature that I'm not afraid to use. The room needs alot of policing, and when there is someone who comes in with a legit puter question it can, at times, be hard for them to get the help they need when there's a disruption in the room. Being that it's AOL, it is pretty hard to stay on topic when the room is full to capacity. So with the amount of visitors this site gets, and a chat room possibly drawing more, PS might end up taking a backseat to BS. If the room is intended just for Photoshop chat, it might not work out, but if it's just for chat in general, it might be OK.

I still retain my 'Neutral' position.

By the way, my name is Christine

Joy Foraker

Joy

aironite

It's a miracle. This tread's come back from the dead!!!!

I think it's betteer to can this idea. I agree with Christine, Erik and Gaussian. Sometimes a chat room can be a bit troublesome most especially when there are others who do not use it properly.

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Smoke420

Im not sure why this came back, ut its ok. Can we all please post and vote on the sticky thread since that one will be counted? Thanks

Smoke420

I still think this a good idea %}

gidge

I changed my vote to yes... though I sure hope that the chatting could have more to do with most anything as in apposed to being limited to PS...

I joined another 3d board recently, and I found at first that for the most part chat was kinda dumb, you know, just sitting there reading and typing life's bs...

but then all of a sudden something happened... there were four of five members in the chat, and somebody came up with a wicked 3d project idea, and then this was added onto very quickly like... things were being created as we typed and posted on the forums, and the links posted in chat... so ya had to have a few windows open and move around some, but frig was it ever fun...

I would post yas a link from this collaboration, but... the thread on the forum got deleted as the storyline was getting away out of hand hehe... and to think that it was the site's admin who came up with most of it... haha, what a night that was though...

that's where I came up with Ricky the Wicked Rat... character seen in my subd humour post...

so... long story short, it can be a great communication tool just so long as things don't get carried away in some way or another...

In our case it was the storyline, which ended up pretty adult in content, with a drugged out Elephant, a f+cked up rat, a corrupt city.... I could go on but.. that's where it got kinda stupid

but wow on how fast things got done... must have been 4 or five models in no time, like in less than an hour I had the rat modeled, there was a trike built for him by another member, the elephant was modeled, as was a silly car for him, and I mean this was one of the most productive, though silliest nights I have ever been a part of

gee, I wonder if I made a good case to have a chat, or a bad example of why there shouldn't be a chat ? [confused] [confused]

nah, I say go for it... it could be a ton of fun hanging out and getting involved with collabs of the nice varieties or just chatting and watching the fun unfold