by Boikat » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:05 am
And with proper moderation (even a robo-mod), anyone who logged in and starts with "ASL?" (Age, Sex, Location?) could get auto-booted/banned. Besides that, the sex predators would be hard pressed to find victims with this bunch, if that's a major concern.
Asside from the social aspect of just shooting the breeze, I do think a chat is a good idea for Q&A about the sim, too. Especially when explaining some of the "How To's".
Pirch was (and as far as I know, still has) a pretty good chat system, allowed for "side chats", and I believe a decent system for filtering, or at the very least allowed "moderators" to boot/ban someone at the drop of an inuendo. In the Science Fiction/Fantasy chat room I participated in, we were all moderators, and when someone's first post was "ASL?", it was a contest to see who'd hit the "kick/ban" button first.
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