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by nitrogen
Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:29 pm
Forum: Site Announcements, Questions & Suggestions
Topic: Chat Room
Replies: 16
Views: 2615

Re: Chat Room

Charles L. Cotton wrote:And I was thinking this was a simple, "the light's on or it's off" situation.

I'll find the mod for phpBB and let you experts tell me if it "safe" code or not. I like the fact that it utilizes the board's MySQL database, so only our members can use it. As for bandwidth, my business plan provides for 200GB monthly. That's far more than is used for TexasCHLforum and everything else I have on TexasShooting.com, but I have no idea how a chat room would impact the monthly bandwidth. Would the fact that I have Gzip enabled also help bandwidth usage on a chat mod?

Chas.
I don't know this software that much, but if all that's being passed back and fourth is text, it wouldn't add significantly unless you were also passing multimedia back and fourth, and the board suddenly grew about 200x.

Again, not being familliar with the software, I wouldn't think gzip would make a difference in bandwidth. It'd make a difference with disk space though.
by nitrogen
Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:14 am
Forum: Site Announcements, Questions & Suggestions
Topic: Chat Room
Replies: 16
Views: 2615

Re: Chat Room

Purplehood wrote:
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...
Depends on how PHPBB handles authentication. I've seen lots of poorly-written chatroom apps for phpbb, and that's why i'd discourage them in favor of an IRC-based approach. Wether we start our own "network" (only on one server) or join an existing network both have their pros and cons.

You can automatically moderate a channel to filter bad words, and kick people that use specific key words and phrases, but I feel pretty strongly that if we DO do a chatroom that we make it clear that it cannot be made 10-year old daughter friendly, and that younger kids should NOT use it unless supervised. That would go no matter which chatroom solution is decided on.
by nitrogen
Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:44 pm
Forum: Site Announcements, Questions & Suggestions
Topic: Chat Room
Replies: 16
Views: 2615

Re: Chat Room

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.

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