a suggestion for SG CHAT

could we split the chat, even if only for people using external IRC clients, into two channels? one for people who want to get horny in a chat room and one for people who dont? just saying. a little irritating. is all.

You can chat privately w/ another member. I did it last night with Tadzio. I mean, I didn't DO it, we were just talking. You know, just two guys. Manly guys. Butch, really.

Check the chat FAQ.

We were just talking.

What exactly is the irritating part?

It's an obvious question, but it deserves an answer. I'm not bothered by the flirting and playfulness that I've seen in there. In fact, I'd think it dull if it wasn't going on. This is a site with naked people on it, after all.

I've not seen it get very explicit, not that I'd mind if it did. (I've been in chat rooms where I *have* seen that.) But if that's the issue for some chatters at least, then maybe there's an appropriate point where the parties concerned could take it private.

But I am doubtful that a two-room system is workable. I don't know that people arrive there with the explicit intention of, erm, becoming explicit. At least some of the time it just happens spontaneously, when some flirting gets going and the temperature starts to rise. I'm not sure people want to have to choose between the I'm-here-for-sexing-it-up room and the no-sexing-it-up-in-here-thanks room.

And for the record, I have not been sexed-up -- hell, barely flirted with! -- in chat. I'm not arguing from self interest here.

wanna make out?

/me takes pictures of the humping and submits them as a new set

its true. we talked about football and cars and umm stuff that guys talk about. absolutely no talk about oral sex or love swings.



[Edited on Jun 15, 2003 by Tadzio]

Oh, that's right, IronicHump me out here, now. *glower*



(Well, at least my Pathetic Loser strategy got me something!)

Physics? Hahaha. You horny bastards!

sometimes i want to talk about music. sometimes i want to talk about sex. if i want to talk about music on the board, i go to the music section. if i want to talk ooh la la, i go to dirty talk. i should be able to do the same in chat

Well, we cover so many topics in such a short amount of time that it would be hard to bounce around from chat room to chat room. Even if we had a zillion chat rooms for a zillion topics, they'd still get way off-topic.

When people get overly heated in chat or a thread to the point where it resembles a tennis match, I simply say, "Get a room." They almost always take the hint and either cease their behaviour or start a private IM conversation.

Or, I just ignore it, and it dies out soon enough.

chat seems pretty normal to me.

yeah there is a lot of humping. but its usually very cute humping so it adds to the flavor.

dude, it's a chat room for a porn site...

nuff said.

/me joins #sgpdx

Honestly, You sound too uptight.

maybe i'm not in the chat enough to have witnessed anything "irritating" but there hasn't been anything offensive to me ever goin on in there....if the conversation is somethin i'm not into i click off the chat and come back later. simple as that.....
i love the chat feature.

We have the boards for this.

For realtime shenanigans, we have chat.

This is what the gods have given us, and the gods are good. We are grateful.

*joins hump pile*

I think the two-room system is antiquated and only serves the interests of the Bourgeois. I feel we need at least a three or four room system with one room each for the Greens and the Libertarians.

[Edited on Jun 16, 2003 by souljacker]

Ok... wait a minute. People have been getting "horny" in the chat room?

I must have the worst timing. Whenever I show up there, people only talk about pottery.

I wonder if there's a way to alert people when the chat topic turns to naughtier subject matter. If I hear one more story of how someone's hair got caught in a pottery wheel I'm going to