Timeline for Toward a philosophy of Chat
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| Apr 17, 2019 at 21:32 | comment | added | user212646 | The power of a name. Questions are closed and posts deleted, but the finality those words imply is non-existent. Alas, they still call it that. But with chat, I think it's pretty well designed as a chat, but maybe all along they were thinking more like "comments overflow". Well, pick one and name it appropriately. | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 11:26 | comment | added | Wipqozn | I don't understand how people keep saying that chat isn't a chat, or that renaming chat will somehow solve the problem. The whole idea that "it's not private"! and "it records messages!" somehow makes it not a chat just doesn't make any sense to me, and seems like really outdated idea of what chat is. | |
| Dec 11, 2015 at 1:44 | comment | added | Catija | I've been visiting "chat rooms" since high school... and there was never any implication of privacy... they were all public spaces. Perhaps I'm just ancient (at 33) but I think the phrase "chat room" is perfectly indicative of what they are. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 19:58 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | How about just "discussion"? That's what it's for, and it's a broad enough term to cover anything from traditional chat rooms (which our "chat" sort of resembles) to forums (which it also sort of resembles). | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 17:22 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox | How about FreeForAll? Or more accurately "Mayhem". | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 16:29 | comment | added | Yvonne Aburrow | I posted a comment under the main post suggesting that it shouldn't be called chat because it is so different from people's expectations of what chatting is. Alternative words/expressions could be Back room, back channel, agora (a less familiar word but sort of related to forum, and implies openness/visibility), public chat, notes & queries. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 13:02 | comment | added | user642796 | Clearly the new name should be Discourse. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 12:13 | comment | added | S.L. Barth is on codidact.com | Stack Talk or Stack Discussions, perhaps. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 7:00 | comment | added | user152859 | StackChat can fit. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 6:59 | comment | added | Jon Ericson StaffMod | @CreationEdge: It doesn't help that our comments aren't like other comments. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 5:06 | comment | added | user287266 | Since our chat is really just an extension of the commenting system, this answer has some truth to it. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 4:46 | comment | added | Shog9 StaffMod | I think we should name it "telegraph". Has a good ring to it, no? STOP | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 4:42 | comment | added | dafinguzman | @Lalaland That's a good question and I don't really have an answer to it. It sounds like something halfway between a forum and a chatroom to me. The permanent nature of the chat messages, the need of additional moderation and the idea that it should complement the Q&A as a discussion space (for example, when extending explanations and clarifications from the comments of a post) make it differ from other chatrooms, imho. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 4:12 | comment | added | Lalaland | What do you want to name it? | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 4:00 | history | answered | dafinguzman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |