[Coco] Re: multi-room live chat

[jimcox at miba51.com]

Roger:

The one problem I see with your "anonymous/mutual 
vote-out" idea is the potential for abuse by groups of 
people to exclude others from their own private 
conversation.  I think abusive users should be brought to 
the attention of the board owner/moderator.  Just my $0.02

Jim

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:01:44 -0500
  Roger Taylor <rtaylor at bayou.com> wrote:
>At 12:44 AM 7/23/2004, you wrote:
>>Hello Roger
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>><snip>
>>
>> > Any suggestions?
>>
>>Why not leave it open until it's abused?
>
>I'll take that as a vote.  It will definately be easier 
>to not code in the verification stuff, but I'll be 
>working on it anyway so if I need it, I can just "flip a 
>switch" one day.
>
>I also had a very interesting idea that I've given enough 
>thought to know it would work.  The people in any room 
>can silently choose from a drop-down list another member 
>that needs to be booted out.  If that one bad apple is 
>obvious enough that he needs to be booted out, the 
>mutual, silent, anonymous votes would take him out for an 
>hour or longer.  It would appear as if they just stopped 
>talking, and nothing would be mentioned about his 
>removal.  The % of voters would have to be at least 75% 
>of the room which would handle the smallest case where 3 
>people are chatting and a spammer or bad apple comes in 
>and makes himself obvious.  3 votes would block him for a 
>while.
>
>I think this anonymous/mutual vote-out idea is good 
>because it keeps things still open where you won't need a 
>password or verification to chat.  You just go to the 
>chat welcome page, choose your nickname, and click a room 
>to enter.  That's it.  A vote-out menu would appear 
>somewhere on the screen in case it ever has to be used. 
> I don't think this could be abused because it's a silent 
>and mutual system.
>
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>Roger Taylor
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