ChatBox Good / Bad Poll

[mister_e]

I see no reason to kill it, ok democratic poll... but on an hidden section.. i mean... if you don't like it... don't go there. I'm I missing something or some haters have to do their job and poop the party for some others

[cncmachineguy]

Just a thought, those who don't like the chat can hit the little arrow in the top right corner and shrink it down to just a bar. Then you don't have to see it at all, but those who like it can leave it open.

Best of all worlds for everyone

[lester]

It seems to me that many users don't really care

There are 60 or so regular users, i.e people that visit this forum daily or weekly and most of them have not even voted, its obviously a non event to the vast majority.

and of those that have voted there is no clear feeling either way.

maybe i should force users (at log in) to visit this thread and encourage all to vote??????

[mackrackit]

maybe i should force users (at log in) to visit this thread and encourage all to vote??????

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[ScaleRobotics]

More votes is always good. Right now it is 7 love it, 7 hate it, and 5 think it should have a spot. So it seems that 12 want it and 7 don't want it. Seems more decisive than a lot of polls (official or not) that I have seen! Also in tune (at least with USA's) voter turn out, at about 30 percent.

[Archangel]

More votes is always good. Right now it is 7 love it, 7 hate it, and 5 think it should have a spot. So it seems that 12 want it and 7 don't want it. Seems more decisive than a lot of polls (official or not) that I have seen! Also in tune (at least with USA's) voter turn out, at about 30 percent.

That's funny scalerobotics or is it walter ? how many votes represented there (are you)? Statistics are a funny game by yours 12 want it by mine 13 either hate it or want it limited. I will stand Alone if necessary as being against anything which makes the forum slower to load. This includes silly chat rooms, big or moving gifs of signatures, or avatars, huge images loaded by users etc. I think the thing I hate most about the chat room is it is at the top of every flippin' page . . . pun intended. And while on my soapbox that includes the slide out message thing on the right side of the forum page, it requires a script to hide it and that is really slow too. It also means in order to not have to look at it i have to allow scripts to run while in here, lovely.

[ScaleRobotics]

Well Joe, it looks like I am in the majority then, by both by your and my statistics! I am pretty sure I had the first vote for the poll. My (single) vote was to limit it to an area. It would be unethical to vote more than once, don't you think?

I am a bit on the fence about the chat room. But I have not found a reason to hate it. And from what I see, it seems like people are enjoying it. I haven't seen it abused, and I haven't seen load time have a noticeable change. So I say, let people have it if they want it.

Oh, by the way Joe, you can call me Walter, or ScaleRobotics. My parents call me Walt, and people at work call me Wally. And of course I have been called a lot worse. So you can pretty much call me anything you like.

-Walter

[emildodge]

I don't mind if you keep chat box, because I have lot of option for chat.

[.W4GNS]

Uhhhhhh, Well Lester, that seemed to work in my case

maybe i should force users (at log in) to visit this thread and encourage all to vote??????

[l_gaminde]

can't you put it under its own heading where I will never have to see it unless I want to

[HenrikOlsson]

Hi Larry,
You can minimize it and you won't see it. It tends to pop back at times, for me at least so I have to remind it to stay out of my way.

Since a decision to keep it apparently have been made can we PLEASE have the big yellow message about voting for/against it removed? At one time I managed to get it out of the way but it too keeps comming back. Yes I HAVE voted and no it was not in favour of the chat box....

[lester]

Now, If you dismiss the poll vote reminder, it will not reappear.

The poll is on going. the number of users that have bothered to vote is very low. if more users decode to vote that its unwanted i'll remove it.

The option to show the chat is one forum area defeats the object of the chat system. The chat system, if being used, needs to be visible across all forums, else you cannot be involved in a chat as you browse the whole of the forum system.

I consider all votes for the chat as positive, so votes for the chat and votes for the chat in a single forum area are accumulated

Thus the for votes out number the against votes, quite dramatically.

Personally i don't favour the chat system.....but the majority of users that have voted, do seem to favour the chat system.

Now, it has occured to me that some of the votes for "Its OK, sometimes, so limit it to just 1 forum area." Might be people that are being polite. Really they dont want the chat system, but they accept that some do. So maybe I should not lump their votes with the FOR.

The bottom line is that which ever way i view the results, its favourable towards the chat system.