AIM Chat Room Pwn3d: IRC adopted!

[Veldrin]

So I should endorse the chat because flaming the n00bs is a benefit to org? Thank you for such a compelling arguement.

I try. No I said that to take up space. I wasnt being serious, but then again with us crazy aim folk you never know. Heres what I want, just reword unoffical so it dosnt sound like you are calling us something along the lines of 'The other guys no one gives a rats ass about'

[AbsoluteDestiny]

OK, I'll change unofficial.

Which would be preferable:

1) Alternative
2) Unmoderated
3) Other (something you can think of)

[Joykiller]

OK, I'll change unofficial.

Which would be preferable:

1) Alternative
2) Unmoderated
3) Other (something you can think of)

I think that "The other guys no one gives a rats ass about" has a nice ring to it. ^_^

I vote for that.

[Veldrin]

Alternative is fine.

[Scintilla]

As for the credit you deserve... who is to say that the users of the AIM chat deserve any more or less than the users who emailed in complaint about abuse happening there?

That statement in itself made no sense. We deserve credt as being the first room on the org.

How does that statement make any more sense? Whoever originally mandated the creation of the AIM chat deserves the credit for it, not the people who chat it up today. But even so, why does the AIM chat deserve any recognition for something like that? So it was the first official Org chat room. Doesn't mean much now that it's been disowned, does it?

[Wheee_It's_Me!]

Sometimes you (plural) are and sometimes you aren't but the fact is that when people ARE the bad guys in the AIM chat there is nothing anyone can do about it. That's the reason it's unofficial.

Of COURSE there's something they can do about it, THEY CAN IGNORE IT! Honestly, why is that such a difficult concept to grasp? No one can make you angry but YOU, at the very most all anyone else can do is give you opportunities to feel and act out what YOU want to. In other words I might be able to give you a good excuse to let yourself feel angry, however I cannot ever directly MAKE you angry, that's entirely on you.

As for "a different title" I could call them moderated and unmoderated

That actually would make the most sense, drop the whole "official/unofficial" thing altogether.

but there is a benefit in calling the IRC channel the "official" channel as it means that people can go there for official org announcements when the site is down and things like that.

*scratches head*

Um...AD, if the site was down...how would the newbs even know where to go? Cause really, the vast majority of the newbs are gonna be accessing both chat rooms through the .org, in fact most of the regs will too (or did you miss all the fuss about how to get to the AIM chat room when you took down the link)?

Yer point is sorta moot in that respect.

As for the credit you deserve... who is to say that the users of the AIM chat deserve any more or less than the users who emailed in complaint about abuse happening there? It swings both ways, I'm afraid. The aim chat can only be in existence in its present state if the org has no liability for the actions of the people within.

Then why don't you just call it unmoderated? That would probably actually be a LOT better than just saying it "unofficial", from a legal standpoint anyway (not that anyone has ever really taken legal action against anyone based on something that happened in a freakin chat room, but uh, whatever).

[AbsoluteDestiny]

OK guys, I think it's time for case closed.

The chat room will become "alternative" once the new batch of site code updates is refreshed later today.

Any more questions about the chat rooms can be directed to site help.