Questions tagged [chat-rooms]
For questions primarily relating to chat rooms. Chat rooms are interactive channels used to communicate with other people or devices on the internet and are generally about a specific topic.
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Replacing Discourse and Slack with a single platform?
TL;DR: Are there tools/platforms that can replace both Discourse (forums for end users) and Slack (chat for developers) at once for a small open source organization?
We're a small open source ...
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How reasonable is it to hold chatbot authors accountable for their bots' behavior?
In a non-Stack Exchange online community, there is a chatbot that runs with the permission of the administrators. The primary purpose of the bot is to analyze the posts of others and suggest helpful ...
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How can I effectively moderate a chatroom without always being there?
There are many perks to having a chatroom associated with a website. However, the chatroom is fast paced, and there are typically less than 15 users active at once. While there is often a moderator ...
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How To Deal With Impersonation?
Me and my friend are making a website which has a chat room on it. However since we do not have access to servers, and thus cannot use php or other languages used to make profile systems, the closest ...
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Using Slack for Communities with open invites
We are a small community around a bunch of Open Source projects and would like a common place to chat. In the past we've used Slack but Slack has changed their APIs (in 2020 and 2021) so automatic (...
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Support chatroom triggers conflicts. How to build a code of conduct?
We moderate a support chatroom for people with Asperger and autism. We experience that some users are disturbed by the conversations of other users, when those conversations touch on topics such as ...
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"test" chat channel taking over the main one - what are my options?
I'm trying to start a hackerspace in my city. We have a community of about a dozen of people that regularily meet together in person and a chat channel where we socialize between meetings. During one ...
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How to handle communication with user wanting to small talk with admin all the time?
This person is always trying to start a private conversation about pretty much anything with the group admin over Telegram. The questions asked are from those related to personal matters to those ...
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How can I create a community around my Twitch livestreams?
There is a streaming platform out there, focused on games, called twitch.tv. I am streaming my favourite game there (League of Legends), but it isn't that exciting when not many people are watching. I ...
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Handling user that's offended by a joke about a disability
On a chatroom that I moderate, there is a regular user who is deaf (for simplicity, let's call him A), and recently someone (let's call him B) made a joke about deaf people, but he did not yet know ...
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How did you successfully introduce Slack and on-board your community?
I'd like to know about your experiences on-boarding a community specifically related to Slack.
How did you introduce your community to what Slack is, why you're choosing the platform, and how the ...
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How many people should a chat room have to have a reasonable chance of not fizzling out?
If I'm contemplating creation of a new chat room (on SE, but the question is rather generic), one concern to address is: are there not enough people to sustain the conversation, so that the room is ...
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How to celebrate an online community's anniversary (games etc)
I am part of a moderator team of a small online community (180ish members, about 50 regularly active) that has formed on Discord (text/voice chat client) around a specific subject (MBTI* for those ...
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What are the pros and cons of having same/different people moderating multiple community spaces like blogs, forums, and chat rooms?
Many online communities have multiple screens or experiences, such as a Q&A site, a chat room, and possibly a blog with comments. An example is what SE calls "third space", like chat. What are the ...
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What tools can be used to moderate public Slack communities?
Slack is beginning to pick up a lot of growth in places where it wasn't originally intended. While it's focused on teams in the workplace, it seems to be becoming popular with many public online ...
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