I'd be willing to at least give it a shot.
I'd be willing to at least give it a shot.
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There are only two things that I can see as a real problem, spammers of course and civility. The major drawback I would see is that most of us wouldn't have a lot of time to hang around in the chat room chatting about stuff. I certainly would not be a stickler for keeping it just to maps but I would put the kill on numerous topics like which version of D&D rules the most or which political party kicks the most butt or why one sports team is better than another. I have my views on said topics but I wouldn't talk about that here.
The more I think about, the more I think that it should just be about maps or the whole flame war thing starts up.
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If I remember correctly (and it's been about 6 years or so since I bothered with IRC) for a fee, a chat room can be registered to a particular user who can set up scripts and grant "room kick" abilities to select individuals to prevent the spam problems. As I said, it's been some time since I messed with IRC, so all of that may have changed. One of the few problems I remember from IRC, however, is that the servers (if they get enough complaints) sometimes ban certain ISP (i.e. AOL users) from being able to access the chat rooms.
Another possibility would be AIM (a free chat app and most modern versions allow for the creation of an internet chat), I suppose, or possibly Yahoo though I have no experience with it.
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There are IRC servers where no fee is required to register a chatroom.Originally Posted by Greason Wolfe
I know it, because I am the owner of an IRC chatroom at quakenet.
We never encountered any significant problems with spammers.
The "biggest" problem is to keep on topic all the time. But even though there are times when smalltalk takes over, but there are more than enough interesting talks on topic (world building btw
So I would give an IRC chatroom a cahnce, but different timezones...
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