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Nish,
I can see this in the forums, but I can't find it in Q&A (for future reference) where the OP was made. Can you give me a pointer to the area it's in?
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Sorry, my mistake. 
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No probs, I though I was going blind!
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If it's a really really crappy topic, I usually just delete it.
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I am a mere pleb, and don't have god-like powers  .
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Small 'Red flag' near "Permalink | Bookmark" ...
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Cheers for that. It turns out I do have godlike powers of delete after all 
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I think a chatroom would add to the community feel of The Code Project.
I think language related chatrooms would detract from the forums or Q&A boards. However, I think an open format chat room where programmers can chat about open topics and discuss various off topic subjects would really add to The Code Project.
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He means an actual chat room (IRC model chat) rather than discussion forums.
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Have you noticed the list at the left of your window?
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Have you noticed the list at the left of your window?
He means IRC style chatting, not discussion forums.
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I've never used a proper chatroom (the benefit of being a dinosaur) and cannot see what it would bring to the site. Can you imagine what it would be like with [add your favourite CPian's name] given free reign in such an environment?
BTW I was not one of the univoters on the OP.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I've never used a proper chatroom (the benefit of being a dinosaur)
Well, IRC chatting was kinda popular in the early 90s, and maybe the late 80s (via BBSes), so if you pre-dated that you must really be one of the early dinosaurs 
And yeah, I don't support this site running a public chat room either. In my experience, it only works well for a very small group (12 or less).
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: you must really be one of the early dinosaurs
I wrote my first program in 1966!
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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ALGOL?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Dalek Dave wrote: ALGOL?
Leo III machine code, keyed in manually from the mainframe front panel. I then advanced to self booting programs fed in on paper tape, and thence to the wonders of Intercode (a sort of assembler). The first high level language I worked on was Cobol some time around '68/69 on a Univac 1108.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I wrote my first program in 1966!
I bet you dated Lady Ada** 
** for the pedants, this is a joke, and I am aware that she had been dead for a century by then
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: I bet you dated Lady Ada
No, but she was one of my fantasies 
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: ** for the pedantspeasants, this is a joke
FTFY
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: nd I am aware that she had been dead for a century by then
That does not stop Jeremy Bentham from attending Lunches.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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Exactly. A real-time informal discussion.
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From the two 1-votes you received, you might have guessed that this is not a popular idea here. Also a chat room is useless when there are more than a dozen participants, and if you've observed it here, we usually have 50-60 people active in a forum at any given time.
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Also most people work, and an ambient thread is easier to respond to than a live, dynamic chat room.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC League Table Link
CCC Link[ ^]
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I wouldn't mind it. It could serve as an immediate question/answer kinda thing.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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Good suggestion. Synchronous communication (chatrooms) could be an extension to the form of asynchronous communication found at CodeProject (forums, Q&A, blogs). Chatrooms should not be thought as a thread to replace the forums, some people prefer one or the other form of information exchange over the other. I guess informal communication happens usually in a chatroom. It could also help to collaborate and answer quick questions. When I was still active in Q&A some members clicked on my profile and found the link to my online chatroom... which did provide just that: answer quick questions.
/M
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