Replies to post #575222 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Newly2b]

Sounds like a great idea, Bob. With chat and posts, one wouldn't have to leave Ihub/SI and one's established relationships if one preferred chatting to posting. Hope the details are worked out soon. . .

Newly

[By Any Other Name]

Of Mice, Men, and Complex is really more of a Meatloaf Issue

Hi Bob,

I suggest using this 'Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics' board as a test bed
to determine if true: "... realtime chat cannibalizes message boards."

The chat software be built in-house, and satisfy the following comments:
Posted by: IH Admin [Matt]
... live chat [an] incentive to sign up
... it keeps the useless chatty-type discussions off the message boards
... it is something that makes IH different from the other sites
Posted by: IH Yoda [Bob]
... make it uncomplicated for the user
... don't mind [giving John & Dave more] work in the interest of profits. <g>

Available only when one is on a stock board, and the chat created for viewing
and typing will be local only to that stock board, meaning each stock board
will have its own individual chat session independent of others.

It would be available only to Premium members that could turn it on/off
in the same manner as currently at top of page: Ignores [On/Off]

A version of "what" is being toggled is suggested as an idea from:
Posted by: Newly2b
"... with chat and posts, one wouldn't have to leave Ihub/SI"

How can "chat and post" exist together at the same time for a user?

A member on a stock board turns "on" chat and his monitor screen will split,
the top half remains in use to continue as normal with the board posts,
and the bottom half is the chat area where the display is live showing
messages from other users, and allowing this member to change focus
to the lower half so that they can add text to the chat in progress.

This way one can be active on a board as done today, and have the ability
to follow and engage a chat session. One can be reading the board posts
and rather than stop and submit a board post to satisfy a quick query
the person can place that into the chat room and continue on the board
while scanning the chat room for a reply.

A chat room becomes a semi-private club, no Free member access
as Free members can not view chat rooms in read-only mode.

Having many chat rooms, one per stock board, prevents over-crowding.

No data mining needed if this chat does not cannibalizes message boards,
and items from the chat room could bubble into board posts.

Chat trading material be understood to be on-topic with the board postings.


On turning up the winter nest of a mouse with the plough.

(audio reading of) "To A Mouse"
http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/ToAMouse.rm
A Scots poem by Robert Burns (1785)
Full Text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse

John Steinbeck's 1937 novel "Of Mice and Men" took its title
from a line contained in the second last stanza:
'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley'
(English paraphrased) 'The best-laid plans of mice and men / Go oft awry'

Rose