How come Democratic Underground does not have a chatroom?

[AnIndependentTexan]

Isn't this place big enough that you could do a chatroom?

[Claire Beth]

1. that *would* be cool

[Bunny]

2. None of us can stand each other.

:evilgrin:

[Jack_Dawson]

3. Probably a bandwidth issue n/t

[cheezus]

4. irc would solve that

just use a public network

[Jack_Dawson]

12. Dude you're smart

That's why I was a Liberal Arts major.

[liberal N proud]

5. Can't stand Instant Message type places!

10 converstations going on at once OMG!

[Julien Sorel]

6. An IRC channel would likely end up a hopping place.

You'd need a lot of people with ops to control the jacktards, but the chennel could end up appealing to younger people.

[funkybutt]

13. we've got an IRC channel

we tried to raise interest here before. A few people passed through but it's basically just me and this one other guy.

try #democrats on dalnet and undernet

[meisje]

7. have you been to yahoo chat?

It's a freak out

[TrogL]

8. It would get infested with Freepers

[Caution]

9. impossible to monitor and control from freeper trolls

would be my guess

[hippiechick]

10. There is ... sorta ...

You just need to know who and when.


:hippie:

[Junkdrawer]

11. Remember the "Cartman joins NAMBLA" Southpark episode:

Cartman : I can meet new friends on the Internet. Here's a chat room, Men Who Like Young Boys. That's perfect. Hi everybody! I am a young boy seeking an older male for good times. I am eight years old.... (screen instantly fills with replies) Wow, look at all these guys that want to be my friends. I'll pick Tony 316. Hi Tony.

Tony 316 : So what R U into?

Cartman : Oh, you know, the usual stuff. Smiley face. :)

Tony 316 : Kewl. Wanna get together?

Cartman : Sure Tony, that would be kewl. Winking smiley face. ;)

Tony 316 : Meet me at Mel's Buffet restaurant tomorrow morning.

Cartman : Sounds good. See ya then. Clown hat < , curly hair @ , smiley face :) You see that cloudfrog, I'm gonna meet my first mature friend.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. That would be nice but I don't think I can take it.

It's bad enough I'm addicted to DU's message boards!