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Coyote
Joined: 13 Oct 2007
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My users would kill me if I got rid of the shoutbox. 
I use a remote-hosted script that I pay $2 a month for, and it's well worth it, IMO. You can paste it on one page or every page.
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SunnyGirl
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
Posts: 49
Location: Germany
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| Posted: 1/28/2008, 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| A shoutbox is good for any forum. Users love it. It gives them a sense of being able to talk in real time. |
Here I disagree. An unused shout box signals an inactive membership which can be a repellent for potential new users especially if you have the shout box on your portal and visible for guests.
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Truestar
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Joined: 10 Sep 2005
Posts: 747
Location: New York, United States
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| Posted: 1/30/2008, 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| TroubleMan wrote: |
| A shoutbox is good for any forum. Users love it. It gives them a sense of being able to talk in real time. |
Here I disagree. An unused shout box signals an inactive membership which can be a repellent for potential new users especially if you have the shout box on your portal and visible for guests.
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That raises a really good point. Speaking from a general standpoint, if I were to use a Shoutbox, I'd definitely make sure people were talking in it. It helps add to the "activity" of the forum overall, even though posting and the shoutbox are different things.
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SunnyGirl
Joined: 28 Jan 2008
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: 1/31/2008, 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Yesterday I talked to a friend of mine who told me that his members tend to prefer the shoutbox over the forums! Whatever you do it might be the wrong thing... 
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jaycee
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
Posts: 9
Location: Florida
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| Posted: 2/24/2008, 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a shoutbox on my forum and people there seem to really like it. It is a nice way to drop a quick note to someone in particular or a general note to everyone without having to set up a new post to do so. I think it helps to cut down on unnecessary posts which only leads to clutter in my opinion. |
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Miss_Smiley
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
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| Posted: 3/25/2008, 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I am for and against a shoutbox although I have one on one of my forums. They are good for a quick shout to anyone but bad in the sense that some days some users post there only. I also have mine hidden to guests. The delay also is a pain in the butt. Thinking of removing mine altogether. |
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jaycee
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
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Location: Florida
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| Posted: 3/30/2008, 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| Miss_Smiley wrote: |
| I am for and against a shoutbox although I have one on one of my forums. They are good for a quick shout to anyone but bad in the sense that some days some users post there only. I also have mine hidden to guests. The delay also is a pain in the butt. Thinking of removing mine altogether. |
Is your shout box AJAX driven? There is no delay on an AJAX framework, I run that type of a shout box on my forum and it updates in real time with no lag or refresh needed to see new shouts. |
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Miss_Smiley
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
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JKThinking
Joined: 10 Mar 2008
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| Posted: 3/30/2008, 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I use a chat room rather then a Shoutbox as I have found the shoutbox just turns into a spam box, where as the Chat room is only used if users want to have an actual chat about something useful and meaningful therefore I don't have to worry about what is posted as much as it is deleted on regular basis. |
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