We have live chat during the match and I hate it, cause it has no GM's (at least in my country). Too many insulting, childish spam, childish insulting spam...
And just imagine intensity of global chat. No one would see what a hell are you writing, because chat speed would be 5-10 messages a second. Thats how I imagine it.
The main idea is good, theoretically. But virtually is too complicated I think.
in fact it is not. We only need some motivated people.
I offered every GM channeloperator rights in any registered chat-channel, some did reply they would want to operate them, or some of them, others didn't reply. Not every G knows how to operate a chat channel.
Would chat be more and easier accessible, I could easely look for competent users to help operate the channels. They do not need to be GMs, just like Mods moderate forums, could Ops operate channels.
The problem would not be in world chat as only English would be alowed, and it would be easy enough for the operators to kick users trying other languages there.
It's for the country-chans that we need locals that understand the language and it's variations.
I can safely say the I Belgium and the Netherlands, chat runs very smoothly, and people comming there realy enjoy it.
If there is enough interest from the community, chat can work. But the BBs need to be convinced chat will add value to the community, or they will not be tempted to set up an active chat.
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