BogoSort wrote:Well that is the point of IRC over AIM. Why should there be an official chat room over AIM where the administrators of animemusicvideos.org don't have any control?
Why does there need to be any control? Unless you lack the cognitive capacity to think for yourself and you need someone to think for you, the type of control you're refering to isn't necesary at all. Here on the boards it's a little different in that there are structured categories, so there needs to be some control as far as organization, not to mention the sheer volume plays an important part. The chat room never really has THAT many people in it.
If people just want to talk about stuff randomly, then they should create their own chat room free from the rules and regulations of this site. Since the goal is to have a legitimate chat room to go along with the site, then the spirit of the rules of animemusicvideos.org has to be transferred to any official chat room. IRC has the features and functionality to allow the administrators to do this, whereas AIM doesn't.
I'm a little confused, what "rules" specifically are you refering to that translate over into the chat room? Further, and you may not realize this, but currently the AIM chat room is acting as a sort of release environment for this community. Anyone who has taken a few courses in psychology can tell you that bottling up your emotions is a REALLY bad thing. By trying to cut off the old AIM chat room, the only current way of venting your emotions is being cut off (since if you started ripping on someone you'd probably get banned). This in turn is going to wind up creating a rather vast amount of emotional pressure in this community which will eventually cause it to explode. Again though, I'm saying all this as just a personal courtesy, I for one can't say as I would be too broken up (pardon the pun) if this community would do the same.
If you don't like this aspect of control, no one's making you use IRC, you're perfecttally free to use the AIM chat room, or whatever other chat rooms that you can find with much more freedom.
Thank you for supporting my point. ^_^
Now then, how many people do you figure don't like that all encompasing level of control? And yes, you're right, they will leave. It's not so much their leaving though so much as what they'll do AFTER they leave which will kick some people in the ass. Again though, I'm partially for the fragmentation of this community, so I maybe I should stop giving you pointers. BTW, just so you're aware, I've done some rather extensive studies and experiments regarding the nature of online communities, so I have quite a bit of experience regarding this subject.