Separate "chat room" for political threads?

[WiscTiger]

Barb, actually Photos don't take up storage space as the photo's are hosted on another site with the link [img] [/img] is displaying that picture.

I looked at the numbers for threads and PM's, I can't believe that there are that many PM's being stored, but I shouldn't haven been suprised when I see the number of times I see this posted "X tried to PM but you are over limit".

Val

[Barb E]

Originally Posted By: Wisc.TigerBarb, actually Photos don't take up storage space as the photo's are hosted on another site with the link [img] [/img] is displaying that picture.

I looked at the numbers for threads and PM's, I can't believe that there are that many PM's being stored, but I shouldn't haven been suprised when I see the number of times I see this posted "X tried to PM but you are over limit".

Val

Val - See how smart you are?

My mind didn't make the connection with the fact that we're using a link *Doh*

[Amaruq]

I figured even though the pictures are hosted somewhere else that they would affect the board in one way or another.

[WiscTiger]

When a thread is selected to be viewed and it is picture intensive, it would affect the bandwidth, which I don't think is a problem right now.

I know that certain times of the day or certain days the board load slow for me. But I did a ping test it is being delayed on a hop on my way to the board, if that makes any sense to you guys.

Think of the internet as a virtual highway system. You want to get to Point B, from Point A, but there is no direct highway. So you take this highway for a while, exit and use this highway for a while, and so on until you reach you destination. Same thing happens on the World Wide Web.

Val

[IliamnasQuest]

See, if they put in a separate chat area for political topics, those who wish to participate can do so and the rest of us can enjoy the political-free chat area.

And then there could be a chronological limit on the political threads, so they expire and are deleted after a month or so - which helps save overall on the server load (since the political topics tend to run on and on and take a lot of space compared to other less-volatile topics).

The political threads are not going to end when the election is over. Those who "won" are going to gloat, those who "lost" are going to gripe, and the threads will continue to be long and volatile. I've seen it before on other forums.

Melanie and the gang in Alaska

[Regen]

Chat is chat. People talk about what they find interesting, what is important to them. It is an election year. There is concern about what is happening to the economy,etc. so it is discussed. It is only normal that now there are a few more political threads. I just don't see what is wrong with that. If you want to talk about something else, make a new thread, or find the ones that interest you. If you find offense to the political threads and put them in a separate room, then we should prob also put religious threads in a separate place, or those about cars, guns, kids....

[IliamnasQuest]

Well, the obvious difference between political threads and ones about religion, cars, whatever is that when you go to the chat room, half (or more) of the threads are political (which is way more than just a "few more"). You just don't see that with the other topics. Putting them in their own area will allow those who seek them out to have easy access to them, and will let the rest of us have the normal, everyday "chatting" that the chat area used to have.

I can't really see any reason to object to a separate area and it surprises me that people do. I'm not saying to get rid of them, just have them be separate so that the open chat area isn't overwhelmed with threads about a particular topic. And they'd be easier to control (both in content and in size) if they were separated out.

The only difficulty I see is the technical one of setting up a separate area. Other than that, it's obvious that there are a lot of people who would appreciate having the threads in a separate area.

Melanie and the gang in Alaska

[chuckstar158]

My fave car forum has a chat room with a separate "Election 2008" forum. At the top is the "Stay out if you don't have thick skin" sticky and then it's a free for all.

It'll be closed on November 5th and after that... we'll go back to talking about politics on the regular chat room since politics really are an everyday thing... just not as heavily discussed as it is now.

That being said... they also do have separate chat rooms for "Parenting and Kids", "Movies and TV", "Religion", "Pets", "Fitness and Health", etc...

[Smithie86]

Keep in the chat room. That is what it is for.

[Yvette]

I vote for a new forum also. I don't vote & am not into politics.
I love to chat but, right now it's all politics.