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Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on February 10, 2006, 10:15:19 am: Hi folks,

I enjoy the shoutbox very much, and I know you do as well. :D But sometimes we have "shouting matches" there that would make great fun-threads or even more serious threads, too. Don't you think that's a bit sad? The shoutbox is very limited in space, so it's no good place for things that might go in a whole thread. Beside that it makes the forum look deserted when most activity takes place in the shoutbox.

So I suggest: Let's use the shoutbox for what it's best for: Short and important messages, and let's keep the actual forum busy. :)

Cheers!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Luth on February 10, 2006, 10:24:45 am: Are you mainly talking about the football thread, right? :P

We'll, I'll hear you and I'll create the football thread!!! :evil:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on February 10, 2006, 10:52:40 am: Hi Luth,

nah, that's only the occasion, not the reason. It reminded me of this question. But take our invocation of Capra - half of it happened in the shoutbox, too.

Cheers!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Aluqak on February 10, 2006, 03:22:32 pm: Perhaps you are right man... I don't know. From my point of view it is just easier to post in the shoutbox: It's there no matters in which part of the forum you are writing, and it reloads pretty often, so it's almost like chating.
Perhaps, we should start to autoregulate ourselves and open new topics every time the soutbox becomes saturated... with football for example :D
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on February 10, 2006, 03:36:41 pm: Hi Aluqak,

no doubt the shoutbox is faster and more convenient. But it has its drawbacks as well: Due to the limited space we go less into detail, and interesting topics disappear out of sight so soon. :bawling:

I also wonder why so many people join us, but never post anything. Perhaps it's a good idea to say hello to them in the forums instead of the shoutbox? Perhaps that gets our new members to feel more comfortable here. Just an idea...

Cheers!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: TheOFFman on February 10, 2006, 08:42:38 pm: I never shout much in shoutbox, I prefer posting in forum!
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Elizabeth on February 10, 2006, 11:01:42 pm: Then that's why you opened the "Welcome, Elizabeth" topic, Markus! Got you! :nanana:

I must admit, this "shoutbox" was a pretty pleasant surprise, since I'm used to regular posts, but then again, you're right, I missed the Capra thingy :(

Namarie!
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on February 11, 2006, 01:48:25 am: Hi there,

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Then that's why you opened the "Welcome, Elizabeth" topic, Markus! Got you! :nanana:
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Not really. It's just a nice old custom that I think we should practice again, isn't it?

Cheers!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Elizabeth on February 11, 2006, 09:35:04 am: Feeling better now. :lol:

Namarie!
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Ereshkigal on February 11, 2006, 12:13:30 pm: I think we use it a lot like if it was a chat, and actually I think we should make use of the chat more.
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: ViruS on February 11, 2006, 01:05:52 pm: I like verry much the shout box and this smile " :iconmi77kl:" my favourite
But like Markus sez the space is limited but is more interesting
Hmmm for serious threads we should make a new topic :party43:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on February 11, 2006, 01:32:51 pm: Hi folks,

I think everything has its place:

Chat: Ideal for chatting. :lol: Ideal for short and short-lived stuff of no great importance. The trouble here is that you have to be online simultaneously.

Posting: Ideal for anything that can go into detail or that would be nice to have around for a longer while. So serious and informative topics belong here, but also fun-topics can be better in the forum. You just have more space and take more time to post, so you can let your fantasy go much wilder. For instance, the Invocation of Capra wouldn't have been half this much fun if it had taken place in the shoutbox only, where everything must be said in one or two lines.

Shoutbox: In between the two. As limited in space as the chat, but slightly more persistent. And always around when you post, anyway.

That much on NTSMS media theory. :D

I'm not saying we shouldn't use the shoutbox. I'm just saying that some things go better in the forum, and we should remember that so we can pick the best of everything. Hell, what I'd like most is a humming forum AND a humming shoutbox AND frequent chats! (Though I must admit I visit the official Therion chat more often. I can use any program I like to access it, and I can see Seph and Franz there. Beside that, it's the actual birthplace of NTSMS. :)) So post and shout until your fingers hurt!

Cheers!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Ereshkigal on February 11, 2006, 05:03:20 pm: I think that out of all the resources we have to communicate with each other we have forgotten the chat. I say we come in there more often peep!

At the Therion we can't be too silly because you know who might be bothered
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Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on March 14, 2006, 09:46:29 am: And still... the way we're doing it right now, the shoutbox is killing NTSMS. We don't post anymore, we constrict ourselves to a line or two in the shoutbox. Finally people will stay away because those few sentences aren't worth coming here.

So post, dammit!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Luth on March 14, 2006, 09:50:22 am: The problem is not the shoutbox, but the lack of ideas, oh High Priest from Handel's Birthtown!

*gives a cookie for every post people write, and a truck of cookies for every new thread*

I wish it'll help a little :P
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on March 14, 2006, 10:00:30 am: Partly, oh Queen.

But the way we use the shoutbox now it's a problem, too. Just read it! So much stuff that could have made great fun-threads and even a few serious ones ends up there: Handled in short, reduced to a few single sentences, without any side threads, lost and forgotten after a week. The way we're using that thing now we'd be better off without it. :(

Cheers!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Luth on March 14, 2006, 10:05:30 am: Mmmmhh.... *thinking*... mmmmmhhh... *more thinking*

Ok, we can warn people to use less the shoutbox or they'll be punished. Don't think about deleting the shoutbox although it will be strictly necessary, righ? <_<

Well, as Great High Admins, can warn people, send threatening PMs, change their status, etc... let's be a little evilish :evil:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on March 14, 2006, 10:12:23 am: Hmmmm.... I hoped that people would get to reason - that's why I opened this thread, after all. But now you mention it: Let's be evil! :evil:

Muahuahuahua!

Markus :ph34r:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Luth on March 14, 2006, 10:15:07 am: :evil:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Aluqak on March 14, 2006, 01:58:41 pm: This whole thing sounds like a revolution on the making.... :ph34r:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Elizabeth on March 14, 2006, 02:32:00 pm: A Revolution ... of the Admins?! :blink:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Aluqak on March 14, 2006, 06:22:25 pm: Everything is possible here at NTSMS Livi... even a revolution lead by the admins :ph34r:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Elizabeth on March 15, 2006, 04:11:27 pm: A Revolution attempting what?! :unsure:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Aluqak on March 15, 2006, 04:23:50 pm: That's what we have to find out :ph34r:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on March 15, 2006, 04:33:55 pm: And you´ll find it out the hard way.

Muahuahuahuahua!

Markus :ph34r:

...hua!
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Elizabeth on March 15, 2006, 06:35:25 pm: The hard way?! Oh dear. :afraid1:
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: TheOFFman on May 31, 2006, 11:47:38 pm: I hate shouthbox! Why it has to refresh every few seconds??? Why? Oh God why!?!?! Then I have to click stop and I can't open more windows. I can't read or write in peace, I have to be careful not to refresh, I have to stop it!
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Luth on June 01, 2006, 07:53:25 am: Quote
I hate shouthbox! Why it has to refresh every few seconds??? Why? Oh God why!?!?! Then I have to click stop and I can't open more windows. I can't read or write in peace, I have to be careful not to refresh, I have to stop it!
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I have no problem with the refreshing. I can write while shoutbox refreshes and nothing bad happen. Offy, I think you are paranoid...

Calls the doctors with white robes to hurry.
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on June 01, 2006, 07:56:42 am: I hate it, too, OFFy,

but I have no problem with the refreshing. It refresh independently of the rest of the site, so I can type incredibly long postings without being disturbed by the reloading of the shoutbox. What browser do you use?

Cheers!

Markus
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: The One on June 03, 2006, 05:21:57 pm: Both are fine, the shoutbox is like an eternal chat, while posting is for bigger stuff, like this message you're reading right now. Wow, Markus, I didn't know you hated the shoutbox. And that explains why I almost never see OFFman putting something in the shoutbox.
Title: Shoutbox vs. Posting
Post by: Markus on June 04, 2006, 07:39:47 am: HI One,

well, I don't seriously hate it. But I dislike it because it bears a great temptation to use it instead of posting, but once you decide to use the shoutbox to say something you have to say it shorter. Thus it tends to dry out this place... and actually this is reason enough to hate it, hate it, hate it. :ph34r:

Cheers!

Markus