I love the idea.. this would be great for a number of different purposes. Back with my old group, I definitely would have used this to post transcripts from staff/brainstorming sessions so admins who couldn't be online then could read through our discussion later on. And when we needed to do something like this for training purposes (few years ago), we had to go open a temporary chat room, then splice together the chat text for posting. That was an awful lot of work.
Our members played in an online strategy/simulation game. We scheduled weekly live sessions where a panel of advanced players could answer questions posed by beginner and intermediate players. (Which later came to be known as, "Stump the Chump.") The transcripts we pasted together from those sessions helped us develop useful training reference material later on. Having a forum automatically record these discussions would be really nice.
A few thoughts on features... we don't use a word censor at my forum, but those who do would probably want that working during these chats........ There should be some visible notice prominantly displayed whenever this "recording" has been activated -- making sure all chat participants realize the discussion is not as private as they may believe...... If access to the chat and/or resulting forum threads are limited by usergroup to registered members, admins/mods, premium members, or some committee group.. then they should not be able to copy/paste text from that active window -- otherwise you might find the entire text from your private discussion meeting just got published at somebody else's website.
This could get complicated ... but it's a wonderful suggestion that many people would find very useful.
12-11-2005, 07:21 AM
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