I would be interested in our members' opinions of our chat room. I seldom go there, but spent a couple of hours there last night. It was Sunday.....a long list of members in the room.....with three active moderators on duty. In other words, things were jumping by Jackinchat standards.

And yes, watching paint dry would have been more interesting. In many chat rooms, members actually greet and talk. Moderators speak to new arrivals whom they may recognize. Conversations actually occur.

In our room, a member's comment is almost always ignored. There is the occasional request for a pvt. Moderators may interact with other moderators occasionally, but seldom with the members......except to make snotty putdowns when a member says something stupid or inappropriate.

Our chat room is dull and unfriendly, devoid of any gratifying human interactions. Our moderators apparently have no interest in it being any other way.

SO, my vote....YES....It sucks.

I notice that after I've been there for awhile, the activity drops to nothing. Maybe I'm being timed out or something. All of the people I've pm'd so far never responded, no big deal though. However, "pornjackers" gets kicking sometimes.

Isn't that the way most chat rooms are; I mean the ones that aren't populate by 12 year old miscreants calling everyone around them "asshats"? I think group chats are a mixed bag to begin with.

My vote, the chat room sucks only in the fact that chat rooms suck in general.

It seems to me that the people who think they suck is those that are looking for instant gratification. To me the chat rooms are more just for meeting someone initally and the fun stuff usually happens later if the people mesh ok. My main complaint with chat rooms is the lack of women in them. Then of course weeding out the guys pretending to be women adds more frustration to the whole thing.

I think this is one of the easiest of chat rooms to use.on nbn chat they are mainly crossdressers.My chief complaint is that when your talking with someone they just drop out of the picture,no goodbyes,or will be going,no nothing just gone and I think thats very rude,if I have to leave I always say why and going off now,what do you think,right or wrong?

I agree, the guys pretending to be women is very, very annoying.

I tend 2 agree with Danny on many of his points. No one talks at all so maybe the people who don't have any activity after about 5 minutes should be kicked. Some of the moderators (like Ben and Timmy) are kewl and one in particular needs a kick in the @$$ for being condescending and rude to people. Come down from ur high-horse. Ur a moderator for a masturbation chat room; not CEO of Microsoft.

Do you guys really want the moderators controlling the chatroom that much? Kicking people after 5 minutes of inactivity?

I'm sorry that some of you think the chatroom suck because of the moderator staff. Believe me, we'll try and spark conversation, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. And honestly, I've had people complain when we do that at times.

Danny, I'm sorry you dont like it when we correct someone for being inappropriate or disruptive. I know how much benefit it has to the chat to leave a pedophile alone and do his thing. Or let some guy talk about how he likes to touch his young daughters. Or the person that spouts off hateful, slanderous statements.

We're trying the hardest we can to make this both a fun, and a safe place to chat. If our visitors aren't always peppy and full of conversation, I'm sorry about that.

At any given moment, there are over 20 other rooms on the same network. I visit them regularly and let me tell you, they are either COMPLETELY void of any conversation whatsoever, or they are so full of cliques that new users are shunned and not welcome.

I've been involved in various chat services like Jackinchat for many years, and yes I am biased since I help run it, but it really is one of the friendliest, entertaining chats around. If I didn't like it, why would I stay on for so long?

And Danny, I know just about every moderator will personally greet many of the regular visitors to the room. I personally don't greet every single user when they join because it is impersonal and honestly it floods the room with as many people come in and out of the chat.

Lastly, if you've managed to make it to the end of my post, congratulations. If you feel you have been wronged by anyone: user or moderator, take it up with me personally. Either send me a jackinmail on here, or a message on the chat. I'm almost always connected and I use Ben_Away if I am not actually at the computer, so dont expect a reply immediately. I will try my best to remedy the situation for you.

It would be interesting to see Danny try to make conversation in the room. I have attempted multiple times and it falls on deaf ears. Most people are only interested in people to get off with, someone with a cam, or for phone. And it is really hard to sit there and say hello to everyone that comes into the room because frankly, people leave the room multiple times returning with a different nick two seconds later. Why say hello to the same person over and over when they do not respond.

I think one thing that is important to point out is that the moderators are not what makes the room boring. We are what- 5 out of 80-100 people? How can 5 people ruin the room and make it boring? The problem is that people do not want to chat when they come there- they want to get off- plain and simple. I dont get off when im there- so typically i will talk to people. But- not everyone is that way. Users of the room have no one to blame but themselves- because you get out of the room what you put in. Additionally, every chatter has equal "blame" because very few people try to strike up conversation in the main room. Also- if you dont like it- and it sucks so bad-- then uh-- Dont come... its pretty simple really

Probably the one thing I'd change if anything is get it to be more co-ed. I've seen over half dozen times of guys come into the room expecting there to be a bevy of women but find the room is all guys. I do get the silent treatment from ALOT of people. And I am not sure if it's just me or they are really busy. If they are just take a quick second to say "sorry I am in another chat" or "sorry I am busy stroking to porn". When you are looking at porn and you are just basically sitting in the chat room leave the room when you know your attention will be divided. It's just about being polite and courteous to other people like in any other public forum. I've also noticed ever since the new chat room was created that people get put on ignore by error. They put the person on ignore and then shortly log out.

surely it is up to us, the wankers, to make a good chat room, no use us complsining if we do not say good controversial things in the chatroom

Yes the room gets quiet and yes people are rude at times (asking your asl and then ignoring you instead of a polite "sorry you are too old for me" irritates me intensly) but believe me as chat rooms go, this is by far and away one of the best. As for the moderators, I see no major problems, we dont want them policing the rooms with draconian measures, they do a fine job

Just my two cents...I agree that it is not the moderators that make a room good or boring. As Bluedog said, they are only a couple people. It has been my experience that most people go into this chat room to find someone to help them get off. Obviously if you are chatting elsewhere, in a non sexually focused chat room, you may expect less of that and more actual conversation. In this chat room, I have found times when the main room chat is great and others where it sucks. But that is the nature of chat rooms, it's only as good as the mix of people in there at any given time. And speaking from the female perspective, since so many men say they want females in there, why is it that we get ignored when we are there? It's like every day I go in it's like bicurious day or something....lol. (which is fine btw, actually turns me on) I have noticed that some of the other chat rooms here are clicky, which I didn't like at all, but life is like that so....? The other thing that will effect how people feel about this chat room is what they expect out of it. With so many people having limited time to play privately, it seems that people pop on for a quickie and don't have time to have a long-winded conversation. Just have to accept it for what it is or do your part to make it better!