Shoutbox? Anyone?

[libert19]

There is this one old age thread, which didn't have much discussion so here is quick refresh. What do y'all think? Is it doable? Does this forum needs it?

I personally liked shoutboxes on forums I have been on, it's good for quick chat.

[LoyceV]

I see no benefit in having this.

[Cookdata]

Does this forum needs it? .

No! There is high chance the chatbox will turn to a nuisance place. First of all, the forum is dealing with scammers and spammers everyday, the moderators are fighting deleting malware from the forum everyday. Since it's a quick place where text can be seen on the homepage, it's not going to be safe for people because:

⤷It will be an easy place for scammers to paste malware, moderators will be on watch to deleting malware links and phishing links.
⤷It's not even good for privacy, if you want to quick chat you can dm that person privately.
⤷This is a global forum, how do you read Arabic and Chinese chats? It's going to be boring when you don't understand things communicated.

The demerits of the shoutbox is bigger than the merits.

[Beparanf]

⤷It will be an easy place for scammers to paste malware, moderators will be on watch to deleting malware links and phishing links.
⤷This is a global forum, how do you read Arabic and Chinese chats? It's going to be boring when you don't understand things communicated.

The demerits of the shoutbox is bigger than the merits.

There’s a fixed to this concern,

-put a rank restriction on who can post on this chatbox. Most of the scammers use low rank account as throwaway account and add some minimum merit to further increase the screening.

-add a translate feature on the chat box or use google translate on the browser. I think some chat box on other forum have this translate feature.

But overall I agree that this feature is not necessary because we do have PM and thread to discuss with other user.

[KingsDen]

There is this one old age thread, which didn't have much discussion so here is quick refresh. What do y'all think? Is it doable? Does this forum needs it?

I personally liked shoutboxes on forums I have been on, it's good for quick chat.

I am in Altcoinstalks and they have that chat feature there. I enjoy it because a few of us catches fun there and nothing so special happening there. The chat is also used to call the admins attention to any thread demanding his attention. Then, there's nothing more that happens there.

So, I don't think BTT with a larger audience needs it. The chat will be clustered with spam and theymos will need to employ new hands to moderate the chat. It will be more of a burden to the forum.

[JeromeTash]

One of the forum admins even set up a discord server for forum members but a few years down the road, there is barely any activity there with just a few members texting once in a while, yet this is a generation where people tend to prefer instant messaging apps

That tells you one of two things about the audience in this forum, and a shoutbox/chatbox/trollbox? I don't think it's necessary, in my opinion.

[Cookdata]

⤷It will be an easy place for scammers to paste malware, moderators will be on watch to deleting malware links and phishing links.
⤷This is a global forum, how do you read Arabic and Chinese chats? It's going to be boring when you don't understand things communicated.

The demerits of the shoutbox is bigger than the merits.

There’s a fixed to this concern,

-put a rank restriction on who can post on this chatbox. Most of the scammers use low rank account as throwaway account and add some minimum merit to further increase the screening.

What about users that buy accounts to disturb boards with harmful links, how do you threat that. Trust isn't moderated, they have different accounts they used for these attacks until they are banned completely. I think the admin/moderators will have to be on knight watch or have restriction on links, and some characters but what is the use of shoutbox. It's for quick notification for everyone to see what's happening and not police what people discussed or chat with each other.

It's best if it's ignore completely. There are other cool features that has been suggested for long time but never considered, this idea will likely be forgotten soon.

[CryptSafe]

Does this forum needs it? .

No! There is high chance the chatbox will turn to a nuisance place. First of all, the forum is dealing with scammers and spammers everyday, the moderators are fighting deleting malware from the forum everyday. Since it's a quick place where text can be seen on the homepage, it's not going to be safe for people because:

⤷It will be an easy place for scammers to paste malware, moderators will be on watch to deleting malware links and phishing links.
⤷It's not even good for privacy, if you want to quick chat you can dm that person privately.
⤷This is a global forum, how do you read Arabic and Chinese chats? It's going to be boring when you don't understand things communicated.

The demerits of the shoutbox is bigger than the merits.

I agree with your point here because traffic here one a daily basis is very high, the moderators and admin would not be as focused on the shoutbox as a result of their activities on the platform and that would be an avenue for spammers to infiltrate it with spamlinks and malwares and newbies would be the victim of such act as they would feel it is genuine not knowing that such link would be malicious to them because they saw it on the chatbox so they would assume it to be real and would eventually click the link

Secondly, there are different nationalities here with different languages. What do you think of it when everybody begins to write in their own languages, which would not be well coordinated but mixed up? Or do they expect a different chatbox to be created for each language? I think doing such would only cause more harm to the members as they would be prone to malware and hacks from spammers and hackers who would drop links in the shoutbox for them to click.

[TheUltraElite]

It would be applicable to sites like exchanges where the primary thing to do is trade and the trollbox or shoutbox is a place to vent.

Here the entire place is to vent and not another shoutbox is needed for that. Also I agree with the members who point out that it would be another thing to moderate and keep clean.

I dont think this is a good feature to include at the present state.

[Hazink]

The forum and its people like privacy; if there is anything that needs to be discussed in public, it can be raised as a thread, and if there is anything a group of individuals wants to discuss, they can also send PMs to each other at the same time without bringing it to the public.

With the high rate of scammers trying to drop phishing links in the forum and it being brought down, these shoutboxes will just end up giving moderators and those who detect and report such harmful links more work.

[PrimeNumber7]

One of the forum admins even set up a discord server for forum members but a few years down the road, there is barely any activity there with just a few members texting once in a while, yet this is a generation where people tend to prefer instant messaging apps

That tells you one of two things about the audience in this forum, and a shoutbox/chatbox/trollbox? I don't think it's necessary, in my opinion.

This is probably the best solution. Anyone who wants to participate can join the Discord Server. Anyone who doesn't want this feature can not join.

[Obim34]

What do y'all think?

Not important, it won't be necessary considering heavy disadvantages.

Is it doable?

Not in the list of forum demands.

Does this forum needs it?

No... it doesn't take a minute or so to create an account, moreover no identity verification is required when signing up making anonymity still current.

[SATWAT]

One of the forum admins even set up a discord server for forum members but a few years down the road, there is barely any activity there with just a few members texting once in a while, yet this is a generation where people tend to prefer instant messaging apps

That tells you one of two things about the audience in this forum, and a shoutbox/chatbox/trollbox? I don't think it's necessary, in my opinion.

This is probably the best solution. Anyone who wants to participate can join the Discord Server. Anyone who doesn't want this feature can not join.

Here agreed forum don't need any other place because most of the members do not love this idea due to too much spam and scam issues having this forum is the best place and all enjoying on good level without any problem.

Few are having their system, but these are not giving results as they were expecting just because of this now these other activities are having not positive response right now just staying here best enjoy and have enough knowledge about crypto don't think about any other alternative.

[yahoo62278]

There is this one old age thread, which didn't have much discussion so here is quick refresh. What do y'all think? Is it doable? Does this forum needs it?

I personally liked shoutboxes on forums I have been on, it's good for quick chat.

There was a group on discord that noone really participates in, i am in another group on discord for the fantasy football that hardly anyone chats in, and other forums have a chat/shoutbox that really does nothing useful. Personally it's just a waste of resources. If you wanna chat with some friends just use a messaging app and not make it about the forum.

[BlackBoss_]

There is this one old age thread, which didn't have much discussion so here is quick refresh. What do y'all think? Is it doable? Does this forum needs it?

I personally liked shoutboxes on forums I have been on, it's good for quick chat.

Forum has this site and some other media channels for communication, therefore I don't have need of more for discussions or spams. Having many channels will become harder to manage and need more moderation resource so it is very unnecessary in my opinion.

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[Welsh]

NO, THANK YOU!

In all seriousness, I think this will just take away from the actual discussion on the forum, and probably actually result in hindering it.

[Rikafip]

No thanks.

I've seen it on altcointalk and I from what I noticed there's much use for it so I don't think that this forum would benefit from it either.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

There is this one old age thread, which didn't have much discussion so here is quick refresh. What do y'all think? Is it doable? Does this forum needs it?

I personally liked shoutboxes on forums I have been on, it's good for quick chat.

Maybe we can take the reputation or meta boards respectively as our forum shout box, because here you get to know more that is happening in the forum and with its members, as major discussions are being discussed on such regard on the boards, so i don't see the need for us to have such, because this is a large community whereby we can have lots of trolls there and to find it interesting may be challenging, will the shoutbox also be moderated? extra work for no reason.

[DYING_S0UL]

By shoutbox did you meant something similar to the chatbox that we have at altcoinstalks?? To be honest, I don't think it's necessary here. And, there are many reasons behind it, one is it will turn into spam, a comfort place for trolls. We have seen similar cases at ALTtalk, where admin had to ban certain users multiple times. Even with the limited userbase alttalk has, the admin was forced to take harsh actions. So now imagine, btt at it's place, with vast userbase. So NO!

[libert19]

One of the forum admins even set up a discord server for forum members but a few years down the road, there is barely any activity there with just a few members texting once in a while, yet this is a generation where people tend to prefer instant messaging apps

That tells you one of two things about the audience in this forum, and a shoutbox/chatbox/trollbox? I don't think it's necessary, in my opinion.

Shoutbox > messenger apps imo. If messenger apps have low activity that does not imply, shoutbox will have same.

People who are arguing about spam links, links should not be allowed and access should be restricted to certain ranks as mentioned by Beparanf before.

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Here the entire place is to vent and not another shoutbox is needed for that.

Lol