I wandered into one today, however, simply because it was as chat room for a game of online poker I was playing.
Sure enough, there was one asshole in there who was not in the slightest bit interested in playing poker. No, he was more interested in disrupting everybody elses fun.
shitstain: LOL
player1: shut up will you!
shitstain: U SOUND SEXY
player1: eh?
shitstain: FUCK U BITCH I KNOW WHERE U LIVE
etc etc etc…
Aaaaaanyway… you get the picture.
For some reason, I found myself drawn into a conversation with this person, trying desperately to reason with him (I was backed up by some other people). Of course, this just made matters worse.
The whole experience left a sour tase in my mouth. What the fuck kind of socially inadequate person enters a poker game, simply to fuck up everyones fun by spamming the chat room?
That is all. Oh, and if you have any tried and tested ways to get rid of people like this, then please tell.
I would add that you may want to make sure you have “Black Hand” or one of the other chat room protectors. Some of those little idiots can be pretty clever with the macros and can freeze you up unless you have the right protection software.
Until SDMB won my heart away (hey, a girl only has so much time) I spent the time in chat room, Trivia on Excite. We used to get those idiots all the time (they still do).
Ignore is wonderful.
Or alternately if you’re bored or pms’ing you can open an IM box and toy with them, like a cat with a dead mouse.
It will keep them occupied, the other players or chatters will love you for it, and it’ll let you blow off steam and sharpen your claws (though some of them are too dull for that) at the same time.
They’ll do it with or without you toying with them, in fact some rooms have “regulars”, so don’t worry about “feeding the troll” they’d be there even without that.
Most of the chat rooms I’ve been to have kind of “roving” moderators. If you call one, they’ll come in and boot the jerks, but the jerks know that, and either clam up when the moderator comes in, or they disappear.
It’s easiest just to use the ignore button. Unfortunately, as I said, some of these guys have some impressive software, some of them can “boot” other players/chatters, scramble or freeze the darn room, use huge macros that play over and over etc.
I’ve been in Triv chatting, and then one of these little morons shows up and plays their little “boot” macro and all but those who have protection software will disappear. Gradually the chatters start popping back into the room saying 'what happened"? and the like.
But fortunately, you can use the “protection” software and not have to worry about it for the most part.
But they do happen. You have to go to the right chat rooms. Sure if you’ve gone to a chat room called “coolteens” sure, you’ll get trivial crap. If you go to a chat room called “political discussion” you might get the odd intelligent conversation.
And if you show your intelligence in a chat room you will attract other intelligent people there (assuming there are any), and repell the ‘a/s/l what colour are your panties’ people (as they may be intimidated by your articulation and wit)
Call me a heretic but I actually prefer chat room style conversation to message board style conversation. But because there isn’t a chat room that comes close to the specific quality of this particular MB, and because the firewall at work disables the ability to use chat rooms I have to make do.
PING <lightbulb atop my head> I just remembered how I used to deal with shitstains in my Microsoft Chat days…
Go into some text editor - such as notepad. Type anything you want “oi, fuckbreath, kindly leave, NOW!” cut and paste it underneath over and over until it is roughly a full page. Now cut the lot.
Go back to the chat room, click on the shitstain’s alias, type ctrl-v, press whisper, type ctrl-v, press whisper type ctrl-v, press whisper, type ctrl-v, press whisper type ctrl-v, press whisper, type ctrl-v, press whisper …you get the idea.