How was the CDC chat?

[aliasp]

I missed it - even though I am a member - was either asleep or busy at work.

What was discussed?

 

[thraxx]

I was at work but there were at least 40 people .. a cluster fuck...... I only stayed about 5 mins.........

 

[aliasp]

I was at work but there were at least 40 people .. a cluster fuck...... I only stayed about 5 mins.........

I haven't often thought how the hell do u get a word in edge wise with everyone just typing away?

 

[HeadKick]

If they want to do a chat like that they need Brent or someone to be a moderator. people should type '?' to let them know they have a question and the mod keeps track of whos next. they ask their question and it gets answered then the next person. so on yatta yatta yatta then toward the end have a free for all and people can shoot the shit.

 

[poker_fan_in_nyc]

This is just some highlights from the transcript I have of the chat regarding their moderating issues (they tried...but this was definitely a learning experience):

buddy_love_bomb says to (15:03):
are we Moderatin this?

SCOTTIAN says to (15:03):
Brent can you wrangle this?

buddy_love_bomb says to (15:03):
who turned on the MOD?

Brenthrax says to (15:03):
I TURNED MOD ON BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FUCKING FAST

Brenthrax says to (15:06):
DAVE - We've got to MOD, the IT'S TOO FAST FOR JEWS

buddy_love_bomb says to (15:08):
Brent you need to get scott and charlie a non moderator account name, because even as we are moderating, they are still getting all the messages just like us

Brenthrax says to (15:10):
I CAN't take this

JoeyB says to (15:10):
i'm a beginner, you guys are too fast for me

SCOTTIAN says to (15:11):
I don't have a green name.

SCOTTIAN says to (15:11):
I think Brent and Buddy are trying to figure out how to moderate this so it's not such a clusterfuck.

SCOTTIAN says to (15:13):
It's like a train wreck on top of a car crash. Kinda like this chat.

SCOTTIAN says to (15:14):
Are you guys moderating the questions?

Brenthrax says to (15:15):
trying

buddy_love_bomb says to (15:15):
I will now scott

buddy_love_bomb says to (15:15):
are yu seeing any questions?

Brenthrax says to (15:17):
IC CAN'T TAKE THIS IS ANYMORE

buddy_love_bomb says to (15:17):
lets just start bootin people!! LOL. JOKING

CharlieB says to (15:17):
this is FUN

They kept switching from "Moderator activated moderated-chat function" to "Moderator disabled moderated-chat function, you can free chat now"

I'm not sure if the guys really knew what it meant to moderator the questions...maybe they were there to make sure no one said anything out of line...I dunno...there was no order or control over the questions, that's what really should have been moderated...but again, this was the first and hopefully it will only get better

If they want to do a chat like that they need Brent or someone to be a moderator. people should type '?' to let them know they have a question and the mod keeps track of whos next. they ask their question and it gets answered then the next person. so on yatta yatta yatta then toward the end have a free for all and people can shoot the shit.

 

[eighteeschick]

Considering there were 40 people along with Scott, Charlie and Joey, I thought it went pretty well. There were some issues with moderating which I would think would be fixed by the next time. But Scott and Charile did a great job of keeping up and beileve it or not, Joey does know how to use a computer.

 

[lokey]

yeah it was ok, but i turned voyeur on it, much easier just to try nd keep up with reading it, as soon as i typed anything, the relevant texts were half a screen away but yeah a blur of text, still pretty cool tho........

 

[Mickenglanduk]

It was mad, I had to give up after an hour and go to bed, I was exhausted. I hope it works better next time when there is an organised chat or the boys can pop in unannounced anytime they want, like Scott does.

 

[aliasp]

sounds like fun

 

[LouieFatterson]

Yeah it was just too chaotic at first, but as time went on people settled down and it was very enjoyable.

 

[ThraxDude]

If they want to do a chat like that they need Brent or someone to be a moderator. people should type '?' to let them know they have a question and the mod keeps track of whos next. they ask their question and it gets answered then the next person. so on yatta yatta yatta then toward the end have a free for all and people can shoot the shit.

We'll figure it out. We tried that. But then there were still dozens and dozens of posts that we (moderators) could see.
Like Louie said, it calmed down eventually.

 

[mrthrax]

no ones fault it was alot of fun,u gotta start somewhere,of course people are gonna type away,i had a great time!!!

 

[ThraxDude]

This one time, at band-chat, Charlie said the new Anthrax album "will be called 'St. Elsewhere'."