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zula
Joined: 11 Jul 2006
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Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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 Posted: 8/2/2006, 9:25 am Post subject: shout box, yes or no? |
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what do you guys think about adding shout box to forum. it was suggestion by one of my mod's but i don't want to make it a chat room and thus loose the purpose of forum!!?
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Nick
Joined: 09 Sep 2005
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Location: Next to the stereo
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blaster
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
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| It depends on how many users you have and what your forum is about. I would on certain ones but now all. Like on www.aonservers.com we have one and it isnt' a big hit but it is nice to have. |
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Dog Cow
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
Posts: 90
Location: USA
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| Posted: 4/3/2007, 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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My site used to have a shoutbox, but I removed it a few months back. Most of the time, no one used it. And when someone did use it, it was trolls attacking other members or the site itself.
Bye-bye shoutbox!
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Mercury
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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| Posted: 4/18/2007, 2:26 am Post subject: |
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I don't often use it, but I don't mind it. Rarely have I had a problem with spamming due to it, and several of the members enjoy it.
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Triumvirate
Joined: 10 Sep 2005
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Location: New York, USA
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| Posted: 4/18/2007, 6:56 am Post subject: |
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I have one on the one community I'm managing as part of a portal system that was installed. I could disable the feature, but most people only use it for little comments that they don't really want to write an entire post for so I'm fine with just keeping it around.
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dimples
Joined: 24 Mar 2007
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Dog Cow
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
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Location: USA
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| Posted: 5/2/2007, 11:43 am Post subject: |
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They work well as a chat system and also for getting someone's attention, like "HEY DOG COW!!! Check out this topic!" 
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someguy
Joined: 22 Aug 2007
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| Posted: 8/22/2007, 6:09 am Post subject: |
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I must say that shoutbox is the biggest attraction if i may call it that on our site, although its almost never more than a minute or more gap between a msg from someone there who use it like a chat. Well yes it adds lots of load to the server, to cure that I have set up a chatroom for those and ask ppl to join that if it turns into a chat.
Have shoutbox mods, admins and a few other old members who get the right to edit the msgs that are rude, have filters for bad words and banning options that shut the window of a user who has behaved badly with 3 various methods.. ip, username, cookie..
And new users have to wait 10 days before they can use the shoutbox, this is for them to get the feel of our lovely online family like site.. where everyone knows one another n respects..
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