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« on: August 25, 2010, 12:11:41 am »

We've temporarily removed the shoutbox due to the increase of spammers, for whatever reason. We'll put it back up, most likely using a different type of shoutbox, when we find a way to control spam, as we had no power in the previous shoutbox.
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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2010, 01:09:50 am »

Maybe with a TEAM of moderators? you can always install a SMF Shoutbox designed for forums, which i believe is better than having a chat room as shoutbox.
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« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2010, 03:10:26 pm »

Sorry, because I think I spammed alot XD
I was just advertising my episode, anyway sorry for that.
I hope it comes back soon, so we can chat again =)
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« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2010, 05:39:23 pm »

Sorry, because I think I spammed alot XD
I was just advertising my episode, anyway sorry for that.
I hope it comes back soon, so we can chat again =)
Actually, the reason I believe it was shut down was because someone spammed a disgusting picture I'm not intrested in explain. But is not your fault, dont worry.
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« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2010, 07:06:14 pm »

Luck, you weren't the cause of the shoutbox's removal, so don't worry. It was the spammers from elsewhere on the chatango network that led to the shoutbox's removal.
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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2010, 04:53:36 pm »

Ah, so that's where it went. That's too bad... I've been to a lot of chatango chats that have crazy spammers @_@

Sorry if my one or two posts were bothersome to anyone.
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2010, 07:22:57 pm »

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Luck, you weren't the cause of the shoutbox's removal, so don't worry. It was the spammers from elsewhere on the chatango network that led to the shoutbox's removal.

Oh, that's good  Cheesy (or bad anyways =P)
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2010, 12:17:52 pm »

Are you guys not planning on using the xat? Because I think xat is pretty good (other than the fact that it may not load for some people) for a few reasons...

Main owner has functionality like promoting moderators, owners, etc

very easy to ban for certain amount of hours, days, or for permanent

if someone spams or posts bad links and they are by themselves, the next person to arrive will sometimes not see the spam

The option to NOT store chat history

option to not put the chat on any lists so no one can find it outside of SMBO

Curses can be censored by user management


There are some negatives though, there is no global censoring option, people can follow from other chats if they have you added as a friend (unless you purchased the (nofollow) power), no flood limit (delete option for moderators and owners though)

You can also embed it into a registered members view only forum, so guests cannot see, which will help out immensely in keeping spam down. If you need I might be able to provide the embed HTML to add as a bbcode (if this forum host supports that, I have no idea what the admin panel looks like for this host XD
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« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2010, 04:08:17 pm »

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« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2010, 09:49:48 pm »

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Exactly Cheesy

Are you guys not planning on using the xat? Because I think xat is pretty good (other than the fact that it may not load for some people) for a few reasons...
I disagree, I think Xat sucks :O

Main owner has functionality like promoting moderators, owners, etc
Basic functions that most chats have.

very easy to ban for certain amount of hours, days, or for permanent
Bans are bypassable, making them useless, I have even seen a ban bug where some users are unbanneable.

if someone spams or posts bad links and they are by themselves, the next person to arrive will sometimes not see the spam
Good point, but it doesnt have historial. Which is useful for certain problems or dramas that have happened.

The option to NOT store chat history
Theres an option to store it?

option to not put the chat on any lists so no one can find it outside of SMBO
Didn't know this one. This would kill the high troll traffic there is on Xat.

Curses can be censored by user management

You can also embed it into a registered members view only forum, so guests cannot see, which will help out immensely in keeping spam down. If you need I might be able to provide the embed HTML to add as a bbcode (if this forum host supports that, I have no idea what the admin panel looks like for this host XD
This is just an embed feature. All chat have that.

Other downsides:
-The lack of embed 'cept for Youtube videos and Photoshop images.
-Get disconnected after a while of inactivity.
-Horribly annoying sounds people can spam.
-Uncostumizable profiles.
-No Personal Message feature.
-Hard to manage promotions (You can't promote or demote if that person is not logged in)
-Annoying "Website Checker"

Tho I can say some goods feature like:
-Online Doodle Option
-Ignore Feature

Long time I haven't been on Xat so I don't remember much about it.
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« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2010, 02:13:04 am »

About the embedding into a registed users only forum... definitely better than the old Chatango we had, so that makes it a good function eh? XD


Other downsides:
-The lack of embed 'cept for Youtube videos and Photoshop images. Do we need to embed anything? Clicking the link takes you to the image/video directly (with that frame in it though)
-Get disconnected after a while of inactivity. never had this issue. Ive been on xat for 10 hours straight before without speaking and was there the whole time.
-Horribly annoying sounds people can spam. Mute the chat; you can still have your sound on, just mute the chat.
-Uncostumizable profiles. Err.. Click on your avatar, and you will be taken to your profile. underneath the picture there is a small button you press that says 'edit'. You can then use HTML for extreme profile editing. Better profile editing than this forum Cheesy.
-No Personal Message feature. o.o... click someones name, and click "private message" or "private chat"...
-Hard to manage promotions (You can't promote or demote if that person is not logged in) You CAN demote an offline user to guest sometimes... but yeah your right.
-Annoying "Website Checker" Yeah it stinks, but it is one extra click. IMO, not that bad. It also will completely block you from entering known sites, which is a good feature.

I apologize for mentioning the good features that all chats have, I was more showing the upside of xat compared to the chatango thing... thats why I mentioned some of those more basic things xD
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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2010, 03:27:41 pm »

-Get disconnected after a while of inactivity. never had this issue. Ive been on xat for 10 hours straight before without speaking and was there the whole time.
It doesn't apply to moderators or owners.
-Horribly annoying sounds people can spam. Mute the chat; you can still have your sound on, just mute the chat. But then you can't hear the message sent beep.
-Annoying "Website Checker" Yeah it stinks, but it is one extra click. IMO, not that bad. It also will completely block you from entering known sites, which is a good feature. It also completely blocks good sites (maybe they're hosted on the same domain as bad ones?)
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