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PLS. READ---> LIVE GUN CHAT!!!!!

treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
i found a link on the home page of gb for a live gun chat. i just visited it and it's dead. i'd think that there'd be more of an interest it that. i was glad to find it, but disappointed that it's not more active. hope to meet some of you guys over there. i think that this is the link.
www.shotguns.info/chat



Edited by - treedawg on 06/28/2002 23:48:56
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I signed up a few months back........talked two or so times......
    DEAD IS NOT THE WORD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    I tried a few times on other live chat rooms but my typing skills leave a lot to be desired and was afraid I WAS GETTING PEOPLE MAD WITH MY SLOW RESPONSES. Therefore,I do not use them much.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I set up a chat link here too a few weeks ago. I had a few good talks with people but there are realistically only 4 or 5 guys on here posting at a given time and maybe only 1 or 2 in the mood to chat about something. Then of course you need a topic. I didn't take it personal, maybe we're just not the chatting type.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    as much as we post in here and wait on a response, it's hard for me to belive that we don't flood into a chat room. i love talking guns, but the post and wait method is soooo slow.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Live Chat Room?
    What are we ROAD KILL?

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Treedawg -

    Please don't take this as any kind of personal slam, just as general chitchat.

    These forums were originally set up as electronic "bulletin boards", quite different, on purpose, from chat rooms. You mentioned posting in here and then waiting so long for a response. Well, that is, after all, the major difference between chat rooms and these forums. I would think that most folks really don't sit and wait around in here for a response. You post something and just go do other stuff, check back in later, the next day, or whatever, and read any responses, hence the term - bulletin board.

    I know, for me anyway, with my slow typing, that a chat room would be a waste of time, not just my time, but for the people waiting for me to finish typing in a response. By the time I could figure out what I was going to say and actually get it typed, the conversation would probably have moved on to completely different subjects!

    As you can probably tell, I have never been in a chat room in my life, and have no interest in doing so. The bulletin board format suits me just fine. Not putting down chat rooms for those who like them, just not my bag, as we used to say.

    (Just as an aside, it took me 20 minutes to type this!)
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think the problem with live chat is that you can actually have too many topics at once, not enough time to respond correctly, the inability to formulate your words articulately, and possibly too many people at once. I've been in chat rooms, and I am fairly competent enough to handle myself in one. The problems I've encountered are as stated above. The thing that I like about GB is that you can go back and read what was stated, think about it, research a question, think of a really good response, print up info. presented, etc. Its like a book, great to read and reference, and the characters are always there in the book, just on different pages. I like being able to come here in my times of inactivity due to darnkness, high temps. outside, etc. I think this is addictive, but I dont want to be cured.

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't think there's much danger of getting too many people in a GB chat room -- at least for now. Mainly, I think people are right when they say they do vary in typing speed, and may even be self conscious about it. I type a decent 35-40 wpm, faster on a good day, but my only practice is on stuff like this. I use all my fingers. I'm not a hunt & peck two-finger guy, but then I know writers of best selling novels who are hunt and peck 2-finger guys, so I don't think it makes any difference, and this is a gun board, not a typing speed contest. As for long gaps in the conversation, hell, I talk to much so I'm likely to fill them with something. But I admit that I don't always have something to say when I log onto a chat room myself.

    I don't see why a person can't log on and "lurk" in a chat room just like we do here -- the only difference being your ID will show up as being "in the room." Like I said before, I'm willing to participate but I'm not going to push it. Frankly, the chat room on GB must be fairly new, because I wasn't aware we had access to one here. That's why I offered the use of mine a while back. It was going to waste. Anyhow, in the words of Yogi Bera, "If people don't want to come down to the ballpark, I can't stop 'em."

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    There is a live Chat Room link on my web page that I started about a year and a half ago. Now has 700 plus members. Open 24/7. Rod and Lisa are the new owners. They own a gun shop in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Some real good folks over there. May not be too busy right now as one of the long time members just lost his wife and that sort of puts people in a mood to not show up for a few days. But there are some really good people there from all over the world and they will talk about anything you want to discuss.

    AlleninAlaska aglore@gci.net

    Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
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  • treedawgtreedawg Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    guess i was wrong again. it does not look like gun nuts like to chat. guess that's why it's so hard to strike up a conversation at my local gun shop. oh well, it was worth a try.
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