New Rules for Chatting

[Anachron]

You should limit the chat to users with 100 and more posts,
this would solve some problems with existing users such as Earth-Fury to log in with another username.

Of course add an exception list for bots (And paypal donors).
What do you think?

 

[Vengeancekael]

Or those who have 50 rep. But that would take longer, so i guess 100 posts is better. Yeah i think that's a good idea, but i think kharma wouldn't be able to join anymore xD But y your idea would make the chat cleaner.
Edit: Oh wait he has donated.

 

[Anachron]

Yes, so what about at least 100 posts for 25 rep?

 

[Tleno]

No, I say it should be like ths:
-Rep should be higher that 0 (So all -reppers wouldn't anoy us with spam)
-Post should be like... hmmm... I think 80 posts would be good.

 

[Anachron]

Why not just using 1 or more rep to be in chat?

 

[Tleno]

Its easy to het 1-3 rep. Maybe or not havng -rep or maybe havng at least 10 rep, huh?

 

[Anachron]

Hmm oh well that is true, else people would themself +rep for getting into chat. Hmm..

 

[Tleno]

Then +rep stat is not very immportant, unless minus -rep that means that a person disobey the rules...
Then the main stat for lettin into chat should be about 60-100 posts and no -rep.

 

[DarkAngelAzazel]

Then +rep stat is not very immportant, unless minus -rep that means that a person disobey the rules...
Then the main stat for lettin into chat should be about 60-100 posts and no -rep.

Yeah. I think so too.

Guys with negativ rep showed that they do not accept the rules and should first do something positive to get real rep.

But in my opinion 50 posts are already enough.
I don't believe you can get 50 posts just by spamming crap (without getting neg repped )

 

[Vengeancekael]

And maybe they should be a member for at least 2 weeks? I'm not sure if that would help

 

[DarkAngelAzazel]

No

I saw guys which were member for more than one year and still had no posts :/

 

[Statharas]

The whole idea is good...But look on the bad side of this. If people are having trouble in maps, they join the chat. That means we should get a Beginners chat, and a main chat. Main chat accessible for those who have 1+++ rep, and 20 posts. If someone gets kicked, -1 rep. If he's banned for a short while, remove rep equal to the days he was banned for, with maximum of 5.

 

[Anachron]

Oh yes, three sections!

1.) Help
2.) General Chat
3.) Mod Chat (Mods, Admins, People with 250+ rep or more then 2,5k posts)

 

[Vengeancekael]

Thank god i've got 251 rep now O_O Don't you think 250 is too much?

 

[Joe-black-5]

I don't like any of the ideas
especially the VIP section thing

if you guys are worried about multiaccounters, don't worry we will take care of them
that is our job after all.

 

[Pyritie]

yeeeaaaaaaahhh I think it's fine how it is at the moment

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Except the big bad o' banlist.

 

[Squiggy]

Prohibit users from chatting?
That doesn't sound like a good idea to me in general - not even with the rep/post condition.

 

[TriggerHappy]

Horrible.

 

[MortAr]

Horrible.

Agreed.

 

[Mr. Bob]

First Page: "Yay this is awesome!"

Second Page: "Boo this sucks!"

Third Page?

Anyway, I really don't think we should make a VIPish chat. Mostly because if someone comes back as a different account, you can just ban him...But, anyway!

I can just see the hordes of noobs lording over other noobs because "I have more rep than you! I can enter chat! H4r h4r h4r..."

I'd rather not give meaning to rep or post count considering as how both in reality just indicate that you have no life. Rep isn't reputation. And Post count isn't either.

So, It's probably fine like it is.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Nubz strive for rep. to get rep, they either have to do somthing stupid, humorous, multi-account, or acually be useful. sooooooo.... 5 repzorz and 30 postzorz for main chat. and nuthin for blubuar, just a slight buffer to keep the rabble out.

 

[FadedLeveling]

:[ But Im innocent

 

[reason 3]

I think chat is fine as is.

After all its just a chat, people can solve their problems/chat/have fun there.

What's the difference between a user with 250 rep and one with 1 rep?
Because someone doesn't have a big amount of rep it doesn't mean he "sucks".

I would say not to change anything, spammers/trolls/flamers should get 1 warning and then if they ignore it and continue this behaviour then they should be banned from chat.

 

[The World Is Flat]

also controversly, a user with 250 rep is not by any means 'useful, nice, good, or cool'

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Limiting chatting to only certain people is a terrible idea. One hugely useful thing about chat is that it allows people (often new people) to get advice or help really quickly then waiting in the help section of the forums. Limiting people allowed in by rep or post may (well for one thing make Rep seem more then what it actually is, its just for fun, leave it at that) stop people from getting on chat from multi accounts, but it would prevent people from getting help and making themselves known to other people - and probably piss more people off by making THW seem even more elitist then it already is.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Or we could have seperate lobbies

 

[Anachron]

As I already told, more channels.
Like random chat,
help chat,
mod chat etc.

 

[Mr. Bob]

As I already told, more channels.
Like random chat,
help chat,
mod chat etc.

Yes but imagine the spammers you'd have to eliminate when people enter say, the help chat, just to talk.

It would be messy.

Plus, what mod would just sit in a chat room all day for various purposes..

 

[reason 3]

Yes but imagine the spammers you'd have to eliminate when people enter say, the help chat, just to talk.

It would be messy.

Plus, what mod would just sit in a chat room all day for various purposes..

Mr. Bob has a point here..this would create more problems than those it would solve.

 

[D a w n]

additional chats might actually be pretty useful

 

[The World Is Flat]

Is it just me, or is chat not working AT ALL right now?

 

[D a w n]

yes.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Chat does seem broken, when will it be fixed?

 

[reason 3]

I guess you have to notify Ralle about the problem, if you haven't already done.

 

[Anachron]

Yes but imagine the spammers you'd have to eliminate when people enter say, the help chat, just to talk.

I don't think so, we already have this problem, it can't become more worse then it is now.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Chat does seem broken, when will it be fixed?

The chat lost support for IE yesterday, but it's fixed now. You should consider FF though, as the chat has always worked for that browser ^^

 

[M0rbid]

I like the idea of different channels alot.
So people that enter the chat for requesting help or searching for project members or something are seen in the right channels and might get an answer.
Because many question are just ignored or not seen at the moment.
The other way round, requests and things like that wouldn't interrupt the chat in the main channel.

But the problem about all that is, that there would be a need of some more chat moderators for the different channels, I guess, because it would hardly be possible for a single person to control all channels.

 

[Anachron]

Would it? I mean it's not really a big chat and you will be able to be in all channels at the same time, so it wouldn't be harder to manage as the current chatroom.

 

[M0rbid]

I'm no chat mod. ( )
I've no clue how hard it is at the moment to control the chat.
But I just thought having more channels would be more to look at at the same time.
Maybe this is the point where a chat mod should say if it would be more work or not

 

[Joe-black-5]

>_< We would have to check 2-3 chats at the same time and read every word, and check every link.

 

[Anachron]

Lol, but the chats would actually have the same amount of words the chat currently has. Users do not "magically" post 2 sentences in the same time on 2 different channels.

 

[Joe-black-5]

Ctrl C --> Ctrl V can make that magic possible

 

[Anachron]

Do you know about these rules?

 

[Joe-black-5]

They are not fully Efficient

 

[Anachron]

Anyway, misstreating the rules also leads to actions, and there is a rule for not spamming, so I guess that should be no problem.

 

[Joe-black-5]

still not a good idea.

 

[oh_snap]

Read briefly through everything, and believe it's a horrible idea. If we're going to limit users on chat, might as well limit users on the forum. Having different channels isn't necessary, as the current chat constantly changes topic, regardless. The current chat is perfectly fine, if there's issues, the chat moderators take care of it. Simple as that.

 

[Panda]

The chat is fine for now.

 

[Tleno]

Hmmm... looks like we have no need in the new rules since most of users are against them.