nitrogen wrote:I'd say don't bother with heavy moderating. Make it plain that it is not "10 year old daughter" friendly, and must be monitored by parents or guardians, unlike the website. A couple volunteers would help, but the realtime nature of chat requires 10x the effort to moderate than a web forum.
Or just don't do it at all. Chatrooms attract all kinds of morons. I don't know if the effort required to moderate it would be worth it, but that's just me.
I'd be glad to help if people decide it's something they want; I moderate two IRC channels currently on synirc, and have written and modified [err, not moderated. oops] software that can help avoid some of the worst offenses.
Is there any way to allow only posting members of this website to have access to the proposed chatroom? That way you don't have outside Trolls dropping in just to stir the waters...