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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 wouldn't mind it. It could serve as an immediate question/answer kinda thing.
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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.
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The problem I have with Chatrooms is that they can get out of control quickly, the exclude most members from the conversation (it's over and done with and won't ever come back if you were in the wrong timezone), and is very difficult to moderate in any sensible or meaninful way.
cheers,
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The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: The problem I have with Chatrooms is that they can get out of control quickly [...] difficult to moderate in any sensible or meaninful way.
Why? Moderated chatrooms have been around since the 90s. Considering a closed chatsystem for CodeProject members, you could even ban abusive members in retrospective.
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I understand the criticism. But a real-time chat should be for informal discussion not Q&A or programming questions. It would give it a community feel where others can discuss open-topics but with like minded programmers. It should not be a place for Q&A. A forum is better suited for Q&A as it provides a recorded history.
For some, the chat room is a new idea. For others the chat room was just a fad from the 80s-90s. Regardless, it might appeal to a certain crowd on The Code Project.
Today stackoverflow.com just announced its new feature: a chat room. At present 8:30am EST "There are other rooms, with 107 users currently talking in 40 rooms." It seems fairly popular on other programming sites. It might be another option to provide users here.
Regardless I really enjoy The Code Project. Just my 2c.
modified on Monday, October 25, 2010 8:44 AM
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I'm trying to work out the difference between SO's chatrooms and typical discussion boards. I guess the main difference is there's no thread, just a firehose of comments.
Interesting, but I (and I guess GMail) prefer threaded conversations.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Why isn't there a pick list for the Tags? We're supposed to remember all the available ones? (It complains if you guess wrong)
Or am I missing an available list?
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Here... Defined Tags[^]
On right hand side panel, we have this Tag cloud defined.
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Maybe it's just my browser then? (IE8) When I go to "Ask A Question", nothing there but the text boxes and such. To the right are the emoticons, and to the right of those....nothing.
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When posting a question the "Tags" box should auto-complete the tags for you.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Yep.
Think it would be better to have an actual pick-list or at least a caveat saying you have to pick whatever the autocomplete comes up with, rather than getting yelled at at the end for making up your own tags.
No worries.
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For the time being, I wonder if the 'Other Language' menu options (in the Questions and answers) menu dropdown, should be moved to the Lounge menu (which now has a drop down and displays 'Clever code','Hall of shame' etc.
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
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I don't think so.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Ok. It was just a thought. 
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
My latest tip/trick
Visit the Hindi forum here.
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This tip[^] looks like a rather sneaky way to advertise. They may be paying you huge royalties, but somehow I doubt it.
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Split in two by the lightsabre.
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Someone is down voting all the posts in GIT.
I visited the forum an hour back and half of the first page was greyed out. I visited again now and the next page is grey too.
AFAIK, continuous voting is not allowed. So the uni-voter is voting down every single post in intervals.
Could you please look into the issue and kick the uni-tosser on his ar** back.
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Ankur,
Not only a single page. I saw 5 pages grayed in GIT  and thought to report Chris about it. Great you already reported here. This is really a bad day for GIT 
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Yeah, I know. I am trying to counter them with my 5's but too soon get a message which stops me from voting for a while.
I am wondering how much time does the voter have? 
Or wait, is he fed up of his life and has nothing interesting to do!?! 
..Go Green..
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Ankurm/ wrote: but too soon get a message which stops me from voting for a while
me too...
Ankurm/ wrote: I am wondering how much time does the voter have?
Not sure...
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Counter it the recommended way. 5-vote the gray posts. That way whoever got voted down ends up with more rep points than they'd normally have. That's certainly not what the univoter wants here 
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