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16 hours ago, Jimmyj01387 said:

that wanna chit chat instead of posting on here

 

That would really defeat the purpose of a forum.  This has been said before, but there is a private LSPDFR Discord that may someday be public.

 

However, I want to address the whole on site 'live chat'.  In a perfect world where people read and follow rules, this would be an amazing idea.  The reasons I don't ever see it happening comes down to

 

A) In my experiences, chat boxes, shoutboxes, whatever you want to call them generally end up stealing all the site's content.  Even if you have rules for this chat section that aim to prevent people asking for support, those rules will be ignored.

 

B) Moderators have enough to deal with on the forum.  The very last thing any of them want is to have to moderate the forum AND babysit a chatroom that - given this community's activity -  will 100% be active most, if not all of the time.    It'd be a nightmare.  As it is, if that Discord server ever does go public, it's going to be just as bad and hard on the moderators.

 

C) Even if you have rules, people don't read.  They will say whatever they want in the chat which will dive into reason B - more work for moderators.

 

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I have to say, as fun as that would be, it would require more resources, which are mods. A Live Chat feature would indeed be an awesome idea if, like Reddington said, this was a perfect world. However, knowing how people can get sometimes would mean that the Mods would be working extra hard to monitor that live chat and patrol the forums. A solution to that issue would be to hire Mods specifically for watching the chat, but I don't think the Owners and Community Manager would want to do that at this current time. I think that site is doing pretty good in it's current state. As much as I would love a Live Chat, it would just be too difficult currently.

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