Not sure where to put this. But we need a chat room :)

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Not sure where to put this. But we need a chat room :)

Just a thought we could so use a chat room.
I am here working on my cab, and new issues come up here and there.
I feel lame posting threads and just think a chat room would let us toss questions back n forth if someone was on with the know how :)
 
Well, private chat might help y'all (isn't that what Yahoo Messenger is for?), but it wouldn't help the next guy who comes along with the same problem. A lot of our members find their way here because they searched Google about a game problem and got a hit from some thread about it....
 
Yea, and no

Yea, and no, I say no because im just being really anal, and trying to UNdo this funky switch which no one suggests and dosen't seem common at all.. LOL
thats why a chat on the forums side would rock, snag someone with a neo 29 pester em for about 20 min and i would be soldering and done :)


Well, private chat might help y'all (isn't that what Yahoo Messenger is for?), but it wouldn't help the next guy who comes along with the same problem. A lot of our members find their way here because they searched Google about a game problem and got a hit from some thread about it....
 
A chat feature,in the help and repair section,would be great so people could communicate in real time with each other all at the same time to help with a problem.
Much better than posting a thread or PMing and waiting for a reply.
 
A chat feature,in the help and repair section,would be great so people could communicate in real time with each other all at the same time to help with a problem.
Much better than posting a thread or PMing and waiting for a reply.

That would be cool .
 
Oh yeah, that sounds great, until we get a million:

1) "I just bought a game but it doesn't work. I know nothing about electronics, have never held a screwdriver, and haven't even bother looking at it, but can someone tell me how to fix it for my party tonight?"

2) "My monitor doesn't work. What's wrong with it?" (no other info)

3) "I don't have a key. How do I get into my game?

4) "I moved my game and now it doesn't work."

There is a reason why we have a search function.


Trust me, as soon as a chat area comes online, forum content will go away. A lot of people who like coming here now will stop. Another forum started up with a chat feature, and a lot of people went over there for it, but content stayed low and I've heard it's like a ghost town now.

Besides, a lot of the "helpful" people have jobs and families, and don't have time to sit around for a few hours trying to explain to somebody how to check B+ on a monitor, or how to tap into the AC lines so they can hook up their switcher in their home-built 60-in-1.

I know I seem to be here a lot, but there is often quite a few hours when i'm not, and the person needing help might not be here when I am. While there are often others here who can help, I see plenty of "it's the flyback" answers to monitor problems that are caused by many more common issues than the flyback. If I (or the other more knowledgeable folks) don't see it in time to correct it, it can cause major problems for the person looking for help.

I don't disagree that chat would be nice. it would certainly give the political and sports people a place to argue in real-time. i don't think it would be the best answer for tech help though....
 
Not to mention if you look at the history of chat pages in general, they are all loaded with spammers and human trash anymore.

I don't know how many times in recent past I went to a chat area that was supposed to be set for a particular topic of discussion, and all the folks in there were nothing but people who wanted to flirt with one another and make their text 15 different colors and fonts. Then, if I said "uh aren't you guys supposed to be here to discuss topic X?" I'd just get nothing but smartass comments back. My vote is against it.
 
Oh yeah, that sounds great, until we get a million:

1) "I just bought a game but it doesn't work. I know nothing about electronics, have never held a screwdriver, and haven't even bother looking at it, but can someone tell me how to fix it for my party tonight?"

2) "My monitor doesn't work. What's wrong with it?" (no other info)

3) "I don't have a key. How do I get into my game?

4) "I moved my game and now it doesn't work."

There is a reason why we have a search function.


Trust me, as soon as a chat area comes online, forum content will go away. A lot of people who like coming here now will stop. Another forum started up with a chat feature, and a lot of people went over there for it, but content stayed low and I've heard it's like a ghost town now.

Besides, a lot of the "helpful" people have jobs and families, and don't have time to sit around for a few hours trying to explain to somebody how to check B+ on a monitor, or how to tap into the AC lines so they can hook up their switcher in their home-built 60-in-1.

I know I seem to be here a lot, but there is often quite a few hours when i'm not, and the person needing help might not be here when I am. While there are often others here who can help, I see plenty of "it's the flyback" answers to monitor problems that are caused by many more common issues than the flyback. If I (or the other more knowledgeable folks) don't see it in time to correct it, it can cause major problems for the person looking for help.

I don't disagree that chat would be nice. it would certainly give the political and sports people a place to argue in real-time. i don't think it would be the best answer for tech help though....


I agree with Mod on this one. A chat function would kill the effectiveness of the repair forums. If one was created here it should only be allowed in the Chat About Anything and Political subforums.

As for the "it's a flyback" type answers Mod references I get annoyed as well. I go out of my way to try and always post a qualifier for such responses. I usually say either "it sounds like" or "it might be" and even sometimes say "it most likely is". Diagnosing a problem someone else is experiencing over the internet or even the phone is dicey at best. In my opinion, the best we can do is provide multiple directions for the person asking the question to follow. Well, that is not the best. The best would be going to the person's place and working on the unit first hand, but that is not always practical...
 
In my experience, adding chat "rooms" to forum-based sites (or, hell...any website) ALWAYS ends up in failure.

I wholeheartedly say no to chat.

Archived forum content + search function = 100% win.
 
Well I looks if I missed out on the fun again. End of this idea.
 
Not to mention if you look at the history of chat pages in general, they are all loaded with spammers and human trash anymore.

I don't know how many times in recent past I went to a chat area that was supposed to be set for a particular topic of discussion, and all the folks in there were nothing but people who wanted to flirt with one another and make their text 15 different colors and fonts. Then, if I said "uh aren't you guys supposed to be here to discuss topic X?" I'd just get nothing but smartass comments back. My vote is against it.

rec.games.pinball does it well for a chat forum.
 
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