Many of the paragraphs below were written several weeks ago, and today, Talk City has changed a lot since then. WebTv users should note that Talk City has a home page for them to enter. No comment here about the quality of the WebTV user`s experience from this computer-using chatter. But the new features are appreciated: lists can be compiled for favorite rooms, entering a channel causes it to float in a new window. But the changes have seen ChattersAnonimous to be void of users...at least during daytimes?
Why can`t people find Room ChattersAnonimous?
Pc users should be empathetic toward the situation mentioned below concerning MsnTv and Talk City's banning of it/its users. Why?
An editor re-wrote one of the chapters of Viva La Talk City. That editor transformed the markup language, which was the bulk of his transformation that day he edited. Suddenly, the page contained nearly no information about its styling or presentation. The markup language is not directly read by the reader unless the reader views the source. The editor then designed a page to artistically present the newly-transformed page in an attractive manner. He then viewed the page in popular browsers, such as those most readers of this page are using. He found that most of the browsers could not display the page at all, only error messages, as most readers would find, and that one browser available to him could only present the page as black text on a white background...no attractive presentation.(MSNTv users would not be able to view the page) He visited a site written in the same language. His browser rendered it white. He looked at the page source (CTRL + U on his computer) to make sure the site wasn`t closed? He read the text, however, on the source viewer. ...How would unsympathetic pc users feel about making that chapter, or all the chapters in this book, be made available to them only if they each upgrade to a futuristic browser which may not be available to them? Suddenly, no reason would exist to write this book at this time...and pc users would feel the frustration of TV-screen Talk City chatters who can not now arrive in Talk City or other pc-only areas. That edition of that chapter represents future writing for the Internet!! Thus, new techniques in Web publishing are being explored by that editor. As an aside, the editor created that aforementioned "presentation" page (actually a file never directly viewed by readers) which is likely to define the styling of all pages on this site at some near-future time. ...Watch for a more uniform look on the site.
Today, and for no good reason, the room ChattersAnonimous is frequently near-empty and barely used. What is it often used for? Some chatters who seem to refuse to leave the area after the latest Talk-City-style clearing of ChattersAnonimous are mostly there to "park" their nickname/identity, while private-messaging to other channels, or to explore the Internet, even to chat in the CoolChat rooms, recently formed from fragments of recent Talk City happenings, while watching ChattersAnonimous for certain other chat users/friends. The writer of "Absence Makes The Heart Go Longing" has not changed his reasoning and purposes in arriving at the supposedly privately-rented ChattersAnonimous. No matter where he chats, and no matter which server, his reasons to chat remain the same.
Reason For The ClearingThe company Talk City, Inc. should know from experience what the writer has been claiming of them for years now. Yet, Talk City fails to learn it. How can one contact the ones in charge at Talk City? ChattersAnonimous stands as evidence:
Talk City continually reformats its rules and policies. Earlier, for example, Talk City attempted to "ban" the use of chatting scripts by WebTv users (mistakenly yet commonly called "irc's") of the Talk City servers, correctly because the scripts often contained material being sent into family-friendly chat channels which was obscene and vulgar. ...As a side note, there were actually "crusades" to cause newbies to type VBIRC (a pc-chat script) at a time when such a script was not permitted to be used or even mentioned in Talk City. The newbies would foolishly type VBIRC in those moderated rooms, only to be thrown out. Of course, some in the know, would laughingly participate in the silly foolishness. And, today, those same MSNTv users can not enter it seems Talk City without violating policy, a policy which almost certainly still stands, but as throughout Talk City history, the policy can be "bent". For what reason? What about MSNTv users who have subscribed to ChatSafe? What about ChattersAnonimous-like room operators who are on MSNTv and have "paid their rent"? Indeed Talk City blocking of such users is scaring them off. What kind of selling is that? And also the actions prevent other users from desiring to do business with Talk City in support of those users which cannot enter Talk City now.
Since many Talk City users have left that server, where have they gone? Many in the example have skated over to CoolChat, and formed rooms such as Courtship. "Wooooweee," they say. "Check out our newfound Coolchat capabilites we never saw in Talk City!" Excitedly, they spend up extended-length chat sessions altering their identities into hopefully sillier identities for no greater reason then they each have nothing better to do with their time and life. Make no mistake, the convenient "/nick" feature available at CoolChat and other servers can have a purpose. For example, a lonely chatter entered his nickname into the CoolChat nickname requester and then failed to enter a channel name before connecting. The result was that the chat user was kicked out by entering a no-room area. Unperturbed, he typed "/join (room_name)",: and entered a real room but lost his nick. Because of the "/nick" feature, he was able to retrieve the nickname without reloading the screen, without leaving the room for even a brief moment.
These beginning articles are designed to as purpose and direction for each Citizen of Talk City: such people are online, on the Web, and are superior candidates for finding an exciting purpose for being online.
Consider the writer of these documents, Mason L. Mikosky: to many in his hometown, he lurks/walks/exists as almost a quiet nobody: almost each who crosses his path offline, in "the real world", as Net residents like to say, are 100% unaware of Mikosky's online achievements: achievements far beyond almost all who he interacts with online. Consider Mikosky's chagrin when, as he chatted, a former Courtship2 proponent, now in hiding, lamented about how "cybercash is insufficient to pay the bills." That same chatroom proponent was supposedly a "victim" of online/chat-channel/e-mail "stalking". Of course, to someone like her, cybercash fell far short of a sustaining income. For, she only dabbled in online activities with a potential financial profit, such as replying to mass e-mails regarding business opportunites. Certainly, she never approached any activity, online or off, in a business-like, goal-directed way. So how could she expect cybercash to pay her much beyond the hobby-like way she approached any means to acquire it?
Now, to check over those above problems and troubles: Aligning those supposed troubles and problems with chat/IRC creates opportunities for each chatuser: users can show less-experienced users the art of locating those who cause troubles and eliminating those troubles. See Chapter Two as an example. Chat/IRC doesn't stand alone as a forum for solving its troubles...also available are home pages, like this one, e-mailing, and many other options. Communication is key to start.
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