[Coco] Re: multi-room live chat

[jimcox at miba51.com]

Roger:

The one problem I see with your "anonymous/mutual 
vote-out" idea is the potential for abuse by groups of 
people to exclude others from their own private 
conversation.  I think abusive users should be brought to 
the attention of the board owner/moderator.  Just my $0.02

Jim

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:01:44 -0500
  Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:

>At 12:44 AM 7/23/2004, you wrote:

>>Hello Roger

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>><snip>

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>> > Any suggestions?

>>

>>Why not leave it open until it's abused?

>

>I'll take that as a vote.  It will definately be easier 

>to not code in the verification stuff, but I'll be 

>working on it anyway so if I need it, I can just "flip a 

>switch" one day.

>

>I also had a very interesting idea that I've given enough 

>thought to know it would work.  The people in any room 

>can silently choose from a drop-down list another member 

>that needs to be booted out.  If that one bad apple is 

>obvious enough that he needs to be booted out, the 

>mutual, silent, anonymous votes would take him out for an 

>hour or longer.  It would appear as if they just stopped 

>talking, and nothing would be mentioned about his 

>removal.  The % of voters would have to be at least 75% 

>of the room which would handle the smallest case where 3 

>people are chatting and a spammer or bad apple comes in 

>and makes himself obvious.  3 votes would block him for a 

>while.

>

>I think this anonymous/mutual vote-out idea is good 

>because it keeps things still open where you won't need a 

>password or verification to chat.  You just go to the 

>chat welcome page, choose your nickname, and click a room 

>to enter.  That's it.  A vote-out menu would appear 

>somewhere on the screen in case it ever has to be used. 

> I don't think this could be abused because it's a silent 

>and mutual system.

>

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>Roger Taylor

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