just a request

i kindly request the chat to be reopened asap please dont type nasty stuff bout me i just like chatting and i woudnt mind if i had a lil support but yeh bye 4 now

i vote...thats a good idea.

i vote too its a great idea

i think it is a good idea, however the admin need some way of controling what happenes in the chat, on various occasions when i have been in there, there has been discrimitory comments, rude remarks and so forth, i think the site needs a way of controlling that. but i do like the chat.
ben

You could always use a bot of some kind. Shouldn't be hard to find a freeware swearbot. Then if nothing else the kids will have to get imaginitive with the insults.

Well, they really don't need to moniter it.
If someone goes in there and doesn't like it, then they need to just LEAVE.
-Not come and complain, not sit in there and take it, just LEAVE.
I was in there tons of times, and I tell you most of the people who came here, started a thread about getting rid of the chat because someone was rude had been just as mean right back.
It wasn't a one way thing. There were fights in there, but it wasn't like one person sat there and 'yelled' (even thought can't even DO that on a computer..) while someone sat and cried. They yelled back.
There are NO one way fights. It takes more than ONE person, so why is that they try to pin it on certain people? Its not like they were figthing with themselves.
And either way, waht's the difference? It's just TEXT on a SCREEN. It's not like there's someone actually standing in front of them screaming.

If someone doesn't like you- get over it.
If you don't like the room- don't go there.

I would personally love it if they reopened the chat.
Please do reopen it.

Concerning moderators:

The chat, as far as I understand, involved code that Janis wasn't too sure about, and he wasn't knowledgeable enough at the time to give moderators power to control anything in the chat room. If that has changed, then I think it would be fine to reopen the chat room. Although it does take 2 people for there to be a fight, minors shouldn't have to put up with inappropriate language and subjects (its part of the site rules). If there is a chat room, the chat room should be acceptable enough for everyone to use.

Minors hearing innapropriate language? Who hasn't heard just about every cuss word there is by the second grade?

About how old would you have to be to be able to write a poem, post it, use a computer, and read fast enough to keep up with a thirty person conversation in chat room?

Old enough to have heard cuss words.
Old enough to know what sex is.
They know what drugs are.
What other innapropriate topics are there? I'm sure they've discussed them themselves with thier friends.

I sure know all my friends talked about innapropriate things all the way back to about second grade.

Everyone did.

They cussed by third grade too.

Whatever goes on in there, the 'minors' have heard it.

And if that really is a problem, it's not the chat's fault. If the parents don't want thier kids to hear that, then maybe they should just MONITER thier own kids and not expect each individual website and chatroom to do it for them.

So, in other words - you still want the chat gone, so that someone who has heard the word can't hear it anymore because you taught kids to just hide it from you?

I highly doubt they NEVER swear.

and taking off one chatroom, which never had over about 40 users, is not going to teach consistency about not swearing.

It's just ruining it for a lot of people.

And if they did learn not to swear, hearing it shouldn't make them go against thier own idea of not swearing.

your vocabualry is a personal choice.

let's not blame it on chatrooms.

I didnt chcek the chat room before,coz am so new in here,but i really would like to support my mate's request ! i think it will be so much fun to chat with our mates ,it will be amazing.

Thanks,
Peace

I know in the past I requested for the chat to be closed down. But I know in the other hand, now I want it back. Also, it would be a good idea to have someone monitoring the chat at the same time. My reason mostly why I wanted it down, was because I was sick of seeing people being hurt in there. I know you may think it's ridiculous, but so many people in there listened to what others said and took it very seriously. For example: If someone came in depressed and they would USUALLY say right when they come in; "I'm depressed, can someone talk to me?" And some idiots response would be; "NO. GET OUT OF HERE AND GO DIE ALREADY!" And of course, they'd get upset. People shouldn't listen to others like that especially in a chat room over the net. But 'idiots' really took it hard and would then complain something like; "I cut. I want to die. The blood won't stop."

I liked going in the chat and talking to my friends. And I'm glad I found the chat because I met some quite wonderful people. But I also hated seeing kids or others hurting themself like that. I thought to myself, "Oh my God. Why are they listening to them?" I know an ignore button would be your answer and just ignore the problem. But at least 5/10 people in the chat WERE like that. I would have to ignore half of the chat room if I didn't want to read such things. So I had my reasons for having it down. But I do miss it, and maybe I can learn to live with the complaints in there. But then again, a moderator monitoring it would probably help it ease down with the depression, fights, insults and your typical problems.

Yes, I did ask for the chat to be down. I AM sorry for that. I had no intention of making anyone feel bad and lose their friends that they no longer have contact with. So with much thinking, I have decided that I agree to the chat being put back up. Hopefully this issue will be solved and everyone will be at least joyful again.