Chatroom Thoughts
 

I am considering adding the chatroom feature to my forums. The Mods and I run a pretty tight ship and try to keep things on a professional level.

A couple of people have asked for the chatroom feature. I do not plan on spending a whole lot of time moderating it, in fact I have found that some of the live chats can go down hill in the quality of the chats (foul language and topics).\

I am concerned about the chatroom becoming a bad reflection on my forums as a whole. What are your thoughts and experiences?????

Thanks
dmeister

You could grant your forum elders moderating permissions in chat and limit access on usergroup permissions. This way you can keep out newbies and keep quality up. Still IMO someone would need to review chat logs to make sure nothing illegal or unwanted goes on.

We have a chat system (Flashchat) and our experience is that after the first few weeks the novalty wears off and its rarely used.

Why don't you have a poll at your forum and let your members decide and then go with the majority.

Regards Jason :)

Thanks for the suggestions I will contemplate it some more.