No offense but Opal has a right to her opinion or her view of the situation. She is not required to expound upon why she feels this way.
As one that rarely goes there any more I don’t have any problems with anyone, I just find I spend too much time there when I am there, and yes I have had a few problems that were taken to email but that has since been resolved – if that’s what you’d like to call it…SO…my feeling in this issue is you are demanding Opal to discuss something she may choose not to discuss with you or anyone else on this board which is wrong. I also believe that she has the right to voice her opinion without people demanding an explanation.
I am sure if there are circumstances that she feels were appropriate to be brought to the public view she would have, on the same token I am sure if there were problems Opal has discussed them with the parties involved or they have come to a conclusion that it’s better to agree to disagree. I don’t know but that’s my opinion.
Una, you know I think highly of you but you do jump too quickly sometimes, please, let the issue be as it does nothing for anyone. If they know Opal then they can go away with a decision based on knowing her, if they don’t they can do whatever they want with what she said. She has no obligation to hype up anything with regards to the chat room and it being a great or crappy place. She stated an opinion and that’s that.
Incidentally this should be noted, the #straightdope chat room is not a part of The Straight Dope so if you go you go knowing that it is not moderated nor “endorsed” (for lack of a better word) by the Chicago Reader.
That said, I will probably drop in over the weekend, so Whammo if you are there get ready for some serious flirting.
Uh… I wasn’t referring to me I was referring to a number of other people who have approached me about it. And no, I’m not going to name names, that isn’t what this is about. The fact is that the chat room is a very gossipy place. That is often the nature of a chat environment. It is also the nature of real time chat that most people won’t tell you what they think to your face, but rather behind your back.
Tech, thanks for reminding me about the boilerplate. I’m usually better about things like that. You already said it, but since the channel is registered in my name, I feel better having said it as well:
#StraightDope is a seperate entity from The Straight Dope. It is not an extension of any facet of The Straight Dope, the Reader or anything else for that matter. The administration on #StraightDope in no way reflects on the administration of this message board, nor is it condoned or endorsed by the Straight Dope, Reader, et al. Any additional questions about this can be given to edamoth@inil.com (my email address).
BTW, lots of people in #SD tonight. Can you imagine getting them all into a game of #SD-Trivia?
I’ve been there, but it’s too disjointed for me to follow.
I much prefer the message board structure, where you read all opinions on one topic together.
This all started out of some innocent person asking about the unofficial chat room and it turns into something where people have to feel like they need to take it to Pit levels.
Staying away from all the fighting stuff, it’s worth noting that the applet on Opal’s site does not lead to the Undernet server #SD chat any longer. Rather, it leads to a private fathom.org server. If you want to talk on the ‘real’ #SD, you have three options:
(A) Go to http://www.mirc.com (PC) or http://www.ircle.com (Mac) and download a chat client. It’s a smallish program that allows you to connect to Internet Relay Chat which is what #SD runs off of. Real easy to learn and if you have any questions, drop me a line. Most people who chat in #SD use this method over the applet, anyway.
(B) Go to http://www.mircx.com or http://webchat.md.us.undernet.org:8000/unet1 and connect to another chat web applet besides Opal’s. The second address is the better one since it is run by Undernet and will connect you directly to an Undernet server. This is a medium dificulty solution. If you’ve never chatted before, you might find it difficult, but it’s not all that bad.
Please note, I think it’s completely in Opal’s right to do whatever she likes with her site including changing the default servers on her applet. However, I also think that the people who want to chat on the Undernet #SD will appreciate knowing how to get there.
from the other thread: Sure, she modified it after she was called on it. So maybe, just maybe, she was too hasty in her original post, and should have expanded more upon it?
Yes, exactly. Here is what I said to techchick in email: “Thanks. Actually I went back into that thread because I realized my post might have come across the wrong way and I wanted to clarify it, but I was too late.”
as far as changing the default servers on the chat page goes, I had changed them quite a while ago on the page at the 3FMB, and I had de-linked (meaning that it was no longer tied in to the site, so I figured people weren’t visiting it) the TMHP chat page, because I didn’t feel like messing with it at the time. I went in tonight and changed it because people were directly linking to it and I wanted it to match up to its “sister page” ( http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/chat.fhtml ) which it will soon, for now I just stripped it down to the basics. I say this now because I can forsee people accusing me of stuff if I don’t clear it up.
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one other thing which I wanted to mention, regarding my bot. It was stated in the other thread that I “refused” to take down my bot. Actually I knew nothing of it until I saw one day that he was banned. I asked why and after they told me I figured that was that. I knew I was moving him to the new server anyway but hadn’t gotten around to it. He was banned, so he wasn’t going to be mucking around in the channel anymore, so I didn’t see the point in going in and changing his parameters. I didn’t realize this was causing such a hullabaloo. I have now changed him, so he isn’t on Undernet anymore.
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Since TUBA has already closed the Pit thread, I’m not going to allow this one to degenerate into another Pit thread that will probably be closed as well. Please keep the discussion in the spirit of the OP, or this will get closed here.
In my brief time with chat, I really enjoyed it. And I only went there in the first place because I had made several disparaging remarks about some of the chat regulars in the Pit, and had pissed off a number of them, and figured that it would be a good idea to see what it was like rather than just talking out of my ass. I was welcomed rather warmly, so I’d say that they’re a pretty easy group to join. It was great, wonderous fun until the computer I had mIRC crashed.
I’m sure that there’s going to be talking about chatters behind their backs, but you have to be pretty involved to actually foster a backstabbing frenzy. As a chat newbie, you can probably avoid almost all the negative aspects that come with the long relationships and strong personalities involved.
