Is there any possibility of haveing a Live chatroom installed as well? I don't know exactly how these kind of things work, or what kind of costs are involved, or if there are the computer resources to do it, but I think it would be an excellent addition to the Freeze-frame community...
instead of having to throw a post up each time you want to let someone know something, you could catch em in a chat, It'd make talking to the Hosts more personal, with immediate responses, you can actually have a conversation, (Let em know their mike's not on or start a zing fight ) live.
Now I don't know if the community is big enough yet to really warrent a chat room, but it might make it easier to bring in those anonymous folks and register them...FOR FREE.... to the boards...
You know Mo, it's funny you should post this topic.
It's wierd, I was just thinking about a chat room the other day. I was staying away from it for a couple of reasons, but sometimes running the station and the site feels like you're playing the "sims", I was wondering when one of the sims would ask for a chat room :)
I think with only 7 or 8 truly active members a chat room would not be very useful.
Personally I like the forum because it is an ongoing record of the discussion, which allows people to catch up and join in at any time. I also have great flexibility in my ability to ban people from the forum, which hasn't been an issue yet, but there's a listener right now who is causing some problems and if they decided to try and invade the forum I'm equipped to deal with them. A chat room usually has fewer protections like that, atleast a FREE chat room.
HOWEVER, I leave this TOTALLY up to you guys, if you would like a chat-room added to the site I will be happy to do it.
Let's take a poll! (First time we've been able to use this) I'll set one up in a few seconds
Mo I agree I think a chat room would be good. I still like the forum because its the one thing I can have at work without penalty. The chat tho would be interesting.
Hey Jeremy what about a Trial run? see if many people take advantage of it and if it goes off the ground then we keep it and if not then we drop it?