:)

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

Q: Why is top-posting so bad?

A: Top-posting.

Q: What is the most annoying behavior on email discussion lists?

On 3/3/11 3:02 PM, Gunnar Hellström wrote:
> I have only one comment at the moment.
> 
> I would not like to drop support for group-chat.
> 
> I know it is not completed yet, but let us rather aim at including it
> than dropping it now.
> There are many applications where you have a reason to have more than
> two parties in a chat.

Snarky comment aside, I agree that *in certain circumstances* and *for
certain communities*, real-time text (and, for that matter, chat state
notifications) might be useful in a chatroom. However, I think we need
to carefully consider when it is useful and when it is not.

(I would sometimes find chat state notifications useful, e.g. during a
meeting of the XMPP Council when I really care whether one of the
Council members is about to post a message to the room. Right now I
can't think of a time when I would want real-time text in a chatroom,
but I can envision that deaf people might think differently.)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/



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