Chat Room

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And stay out!

No!
Actually I meant my comment for your other thread & had to delete it from here.

So...this chat room. I had no idea that it was there...

Oh wow, that's a rip off... You have to pay in order to chat with people, when the point of the threads are to...what?

"I don't use the threads to chat, it's a way to play virtual answering machine tag."
"I use my threads to spew random words into cyberspace, what do you use it for?"

Individual- How's that? We are getting a great forum for FREE. If a member wants some enhanced services, there is a charge. No one is forcing anybody to pay for the chat room.

I'm saying that it's odd that we have to pay to use a chat room, when we can chat (a tad slower) in a thread.

Well, a chat room IS more immediate. You can tell people that you will be on at a certain time, and they can meet you there. To me, it is a totally different experience than a froum format.

Individual
look at it like this:
a. in a regular topic - it's down for all time (well a2k is here) and you are accountable to the public

b. chat zone - it's virtual - only people going to remember are those in the Chat - unless they print or save to a file

so - if you want to be forgotten - you have to pay to play -

Pay to be forgotten? NEVER!

Chat rooms use a lot of system resources and only benefit the people who are there at the time (because their messages do not last.

The limitation on the chat room is to preserve the resources we need for the forums.

Most people who subscribe do not do so for the chat room. That is little more than an afterthought. Most do so to help support the free forums.

If it weren't for the members who supported A2K during a period in which I couldn't pay for it there might not be any site at all.

So in a way, you can say that it's helping to keep A2K free for everyone else.

I might open a free chat room for A2K members, but it will be offsite so that server load can be managed.

I should definitely donate to the site...later. I'll pay the McDonald's kids first, then deal with those who are suffering less.

Craven de Kere
you know I'm just being a smarty pants(pesk)
you were looking for someone with satire without being to caustic ?
ok back to the grind stone

On a very memorable occasion, the chat room did NOT forget.

I left some very rude words in there, as a joke, because a bunch of folk said they were coming there to chat, but 'twas all deserted.

Poor Letty came in later, and found my very rude words - and was very shocked.

Strangely, despite having known me for some time, she thought I was a wespectable wabbit.

I am unsure if she has ever recovered....

I WOULD (and do) pay to be forgotten....

lol - oops

Sh*t happens

It was a lot w*rse than sh*t.