Should JustChat reform chat registration?

@mrs_teapot wrote:

Maybe it would stop cloning Jen? Also it would be more difficult to just enter with a random name as each name would have to be registered with a unique email address.

When I was there yesterday I saw people saying oh thats not really this person or that person its someone using their name… that would stop. I saw a person say.. please be aware there is a clone using my name and saying inappropriate things, gosh that must be so frustrating, that would stop.

Yes it would make cloning more difficult, but not impossible if someone really had a mind to.

Some people (note I say some, not all) claim to have been cloned when in fact it was them letting off steam or saying what they really thought. I guess it would stop that happening.

There are also regulars who are nice as pie in their own names then come in on other names to abuse, however they’re not clever enough to change their style…they could simply register an alternative name and no-one would be any the wiser.

Yes, each name would have to have a unique email address, but as far as I’m aware hotmail and yahoo have no limits on the number of email addresses you can have. Ergo, no limit on the number of chatnames you could have.
@mrs_teapot wrote:

It maybe people are OK with the chat system as it is. Could be that edginess and chaotic regime is why they go to chat…. I dont know? Would a proper registration make chat too tame? interesting huh?

And there’s the dichotomy.
Everyone complains about nastiness on the boards, yet it is the nastier threads that get the most views and the most replies. When a spat breaks out here, it’s amazing to see how the number of hidden users and guests soars, then no spats and there’s hardly anyone viewing.

Same in the chat room; everyone moans about the nastiness but when a spat breaks out people just can’t use that iggy button and can’t tear themselves away, afraid of missing something. Then when it’s nice and quiet and peaceful, as it was last night, either people don’t chat and go off to do something else or someone will (apparently) deliberately start a row with another chatter.

So it seems we all want a nice happy peaceful chat environment but when we get it we find it boring. :?

I guess people will always be more excited by the nastiness, rows and the gossip, whether here or in real life, after all if they weren’t then the soaps and reality programmes on TV wouldn’t be so popular would they?

@twistinmymelonman wrote:

Nothing will ever change on JC, FACT!

Unfortunately true.

The site makes money (not much, but enough to put up with the complaints) so while there’s no ‘need’ to change things, they won’t.

IF however we were asked our opinions… Here’s mine.

1) Registration for all. And not using email addresses with ‘hotmail’, yahoo, etc. Use PROPER ISP e-mail addresses to register (btinternet, talktalk, sky, etc). That way the abusers and racists can be easily tracked down.

2) The website is for 18 and over, ONLY. Treat us like we are over 18.

3) Scrollers can be stopped by having a set time between posts. Having a 3 second block between typing things in the chatroom will bore the scrollers completely. And if it doesn’t, it still gives other chatters the chance to put them on ignore before they completely flood the screen.

4) Give ALL chatguides the ability to be invisible in a chatroom, not JUST the hosts.

I’m sure there’s more, but I’m sat here at work and want to go home, so I’m going to. :)

@themaster wrote:

1) Registration for all. And not using email addresses with ‘hotmail’, yahoo, etc. Use PROPER ISP e-mail addresses to register (btinternet, talktalk, sky, etc). That way the abusers and racists can be easily tracked down.

Well that would rule me out, I never give my proper ISP email address when I register on sites, that way I can keep the spam off my personal email address which is linked to my business.

Tracking down abusers and racists is easy, it’s doing something about them that’s more difficult.