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Arvedui · 05-19-2003, 11:44 AM

Being a recent arrival at the Barrow Downs, but a long-time Tolkien messageboard veteran, I have to say the whole 'chat vs discussion' debate is not new by any means. I applaud Barrow's effort to keep his site discussing Tolkien in an articulate way, and the fact that the Barrow Downs part of the story, or anything about Arnor or the Kingdom of the North didn't appear in the movies has led from what I have seen here to be more articulate discussions as opposed to 'actor fandom' and such nonsense that seems to have overrun many a once-fine Tolkien messageboard.

Going forward here, I can see the frustration of Barrow Wight in the fact the messageboard can easily turn into an expensive (on his part) chat engine, wheras many a good chat engines (MSN, AIM, Yahoo) are available. The fact Barrow even provides a chat function on the website is amazing in my mind, but I am sure it helps in cutting down in the prattle in the threads but I wonder about the use of resources/bandwidth.

At the same time, there are mentions of the limit of 10 PMs causing more chatty posts in threads. Seriously, this function is really the realm of email, of which everyone registering has to have. If everyone took the time to set up their emails with the addresses of those they regularly chat with via threads, or PMs, it would serve the common good in cutting traffic hence the use of bandwidth, and the costs incurred from said traffic. In this spirit, if you can donate to the Barrow fund to support the site, great, but I saw many who posted in that thread about how they couldn't afford to donate or couldn't for other reasons. They could contribute by using other means of chatting other than in threads or PM.

So here is what we all can do:

more discussion and less chat in threads.
use email instead of PM
use a chat engine (MSN, Yahoo, AIM) instead of chatting in threads or PM

Every bit of bandwidth saved is like a donation to operate the site.

Ok, now let the excuses begin... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

05-19-2003, 11:44 AM	#33
Arvedui Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Annúminas Posts: 56	Being a recent arrival at the Barrow Downs, but a long-time Tolkien messageboard veteran, I have to say the whole 'chat vs discussion' debate is not new by any means. I applaud Barrow's effort to keep his site discussing Tolkien in an articulate way, and the fact that the Barrow Downs part of the story, or anything about Arnor or the Kingdom of the North didn't appear in the movies has led from what I have seen here to be more articulate discussions as opposed to 'actor fandom' and such nonsense that seems to have overrun many a once-fine Tolkien messageboard. Going forward here, I can see the frustration of Barrow Wight in the fact the messageboard can easily turn into an expensive (on his part) chat engine, wheras many a good chat engines (MSN, AIM, Yahoo) are available. The fact Barrow even provides a chat function on the website is amazing in my mind, but I am sure it helps in cutting down in the prattle in the threads but I wonder about the use of resources/bandwidth. At the same time, there are mentions of the limit of 10 PMs causing more chatty posts in threads. Seriously, this function is really the realm of email, of which everyone registering has to have. If everyone took the time to set up their emails with the addresses of those they regularly chat with via threads, or PMs, it would serve the common good in cutting traffic hence the use of bandwidth, and the costs incurred from said traffic. In this spirit, if you can donate to the Barrow fund to support the site, great, but I saw many who posted in that thread about how they couldn't afford to donate or couldn't for other reasons. They could contribute by using other means of chatting other than in threads or PM. So here is what we all can do: more discussion and less chat in threads. use email instead of PM use a chat engine (MSN, Yahoo, AIM) instead of chatting in threads or PM Every bit of bandwidth saved is like a donation to operate the site. Ok, now let the excuses begin... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ When Elendil fell, Isildur departed to take up the high kingship of his father, and committed the rule of the south in like manner to the son of his brother. He did not relinquish his royalty in Gondor, nor intend that the realm of Elendil should be divided forever.