AW Chat discussion

I know what you're talking about: ICQ (phonetical acronym for "I seek you"), although it uses (used) the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol, it was more. MSN Messenger is similar. I assume Yahoo, AIM and others are also similar. There is that little signal that tells you the other party is composing a message.

Unfortunately, I know of no IRC client used to access chat rooms such as ours that can do this. In all the years I've been chatting (don't ask me how many--even if I could remember, I won't admit to it), I have never run across a solution for the collision between several respondents posting simultaneously. The cross posting can result in often confusing and sometimes humorous results. The Trivia channels count on this peculiarity to provide excitement.

Often, in chat, when asked how I cope with this I reply: "I just read every seventh line and ignore the rest. It doesn't make any more sense that way, but at least I'm not as frustrated."

Here, ask your questions about the hows and whys of chat, offer suggestions, register complaints.

Can't promise satisfaction, but we will try our best to at least provide an explanation.

Seems like an awful lot of work just to chat for a bit. Best wishes with this. I just dropped by and was told I need voice to use it. Never use voice...so guess will not be hitting the chat room. Have fun.

CACTUSWENDY said:

Seems like an awful lot of work just to chat for a bit. Best wishes with this. I just dropped by and was told I need voice to use it. Never use voice...so guess will not be hitting the chat room. Have fun.

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Wendy, that doesn't mean voice as in "audio," it means you need the blessing of an Op to be able to chat.

As a preventive measure, because of problems in the Chat room, it's set so no one can chat unless one of the Ops is present.

Wendy, we are trying to have the chat open at all times. Between the north-americans and the europeans, it's easier.

You might have caught a short time when there were no Ops around. Try again later sometime. It's great fun.

I have to say, I'm glad the chat-room is moderated now, just saying it.

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It seems that the #absolutewrite room is now defunct, as there are no ops, one person has voice and everyone else is unvoiced (meaning they can't chat.)

There seems to have been some sort of controversy revolving around the person whi is voiced which erupted and caused this.

The new channel is #writers_cafe, also on starchat.

I was not around when any of this happened, I've only recently joined AW (and this new chat.)

Could we update this so that the new channel grows or the old channel is properly reclaimed?

ViraKamarati said:

It seems that the #absolutewrite room is now defunct, as there are no ops, one person has voice and everyone else is unvoiced (meaning they can't chat.)

There seems to have been some sort of controversy revolving around the person whi is voiced which erupted and caused this.

The new channel is #writers_cafe, also on starchat.

I was not around when any of this happened, I've only recently joined AW (and this new chat.)

Could we update this so that the new channel grows or the old channel is properly reclaimed?

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The #absolutewrite room is NOT defunct and even though it is no longer visible in Starchat's channel list, it is still easy to access through the link on the first post of this thread.

Like Derek said, the presence of a room Operator (Op) is indeed necessary for people to chat, and between all Ops we do try to have the room open as much as possible.

There are several chat rooms on StarChat.net that are "for" writers. I believe most, if not all, are created and operated by members of these forums. However, the only "Official Absolute Write" channel is #AbsoluteWrite.

We are always interested in finding people who have the willingness and ability to host the chat room on a regular basis. "Regular basis" can be an hour a day, or an hour a week. Experience with IRC chat rooms is desired, but not necessary. We are absolutely willing to train the right person.

Pthom said:

We are always interested in finding people who have the willingness and ability to host the chat room on a regular basis. "Regular basis" can be an hour a day, or an hour a week. Experience with IRC chat rooms is desired, but not necessary. We are absolutely willing to train the right person.

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Train, uh?



Erm ... nevermind.

Hmm. Every time I have been to #AbsoluteWrite, I have not been able to chat, and there is only one person voiced, with no ops...

I'm not sure how you can claim that it isn't defunct given this style of moderation. Please give thought to switching to a different system.

The amount of chatting that goes on in the AbsoluteWrite room is very closely dependent on american hours. As a european, I've had the room open for over 10 hours where the only people that talked were the Ops and the voiced chatter. Sometimes people pinged out and their irc clients logged them back in automatically, and that was it.

Also, as with so many things in this world, activity is random. Sometimes the room is open at "american hours" and nothing happens, and sometimes a bunch of people drop in and chat for a while.

My point is: there is activity and the Ops do try to keep the room open as much as possible within our own time/activity restraints. It's not a perfect system, but it has been working for the majority of people so far.

In other news, I have updated the post on chatting with Mibbit with some important information for those who use it.

We have a chat room?

I something up with StarChat? I can't get on to either absolutewrite or thewriterscircle through starchat or through mibbit.

*plays the 'time-will-resolve-this' game*

I just got in.

How are you trying to get in?

Try clearing out all your cookies and starting over. Be sure you know all the user idents to your favorite sites and passwords before you erase cookies, though.

Never mind it's all cool. *punches starchat* It's all cool! 9_9