I think I've asked this before....

But I can't remember, so I'll ask it again. (My apologies if I did)

Is there a reason why their is no forum chat room here for collectors to get to know each other? I would love to be able to casually chat or BS with some of the members here without having to PM if it ever came to it.

Is this an option? Mods/Admins? Members thoughts?

 

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You can PM multiple members and keep comments within that group. But not all like the idea and would choose the Leave Conversation tab on the PM. I have gotten to know many members on just the threads alone which keep me busy... chatting would just be a little distracting. I'm not saying it's a bad idea but not all members would agree.

 

I was also just wondering where to go, but I know of partisan lines. I just want to know, is partisan lines also where CT members go to talk about issues they think are important? How do we get to partisan lines?

 

@charlietig

There used to be a chat room, but it was closed because the privilege was being abused by a small group of members.

Chris

 

And that's how Facebook started .. Lol ....

 

A chat is a direct competitor to the Forum itself, taking traffic which could otherwise be in thread form and benefiting the whole membership rather than just the clique participating in the chat. I don't blame them for not wasting the bandwidth.

 

If I recall correctly, there was an argument that got pretty nasty. That is one of the problems that can arise in a live chat.

Chris

 

Was it closed because that small group of individuals were too verbally abusive?

 

I don't know all the details, so I won't speculate. Let's just say that Peter wasn't happy.

Chris

 

www.partisanlines.com

 

Thank's for the info. I just signed up there, so I suppose I must wait for a while before I can post comments.

 

Yeah, it's kind of like a bar. You can "belly up" to the bar all night long, but if everyone falls off their stool, they close the joint.

Chris

 

The problem with partisanlines is that it is too general. It would be nice if there were a place to specifically get into the politics of monetary and fiscal policy without getting into the other boring crap that ends up on partisanlines.

 

Know a good development platform?

 

Right now I'm teaching myself Swift programming for Apple iOS devices, because I have a burning idea for a rump-kicking coin collection management app. The website will need to get in line. Biggest issue is licensing good images of series I don't own.