How do you know?

Does anyone know how to find out what room other chatters are in?

trish

[bassethoundbeagle]

ask Lee

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
-Walter Kerr

[Birdhead]

There's only really one; no-body ever goes into the other one. (and it's really hard to catch people at all; 'cause we're quite a small site, you really have to have organised chat times, and while we have them, no-one really shows up at that time.) (Or at least, not at the Pacific chat time...)
Ka Kite
Tui

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
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My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
STRESSING
She Who Is Supposed To be in Three or Four Places At Once every Lunchtime for the Next Two Weeks.

[Aurora]

um, birdhead, I dunno this for sure, but I think you're the only common poster that's out in the Pacific. I'm not sure though..... Out of the 400-some members we have, only around 50 seems to post regularly.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool
-Shakespeare

Even when I was in a crowd, I was always alone...
-Hemingway

[Lee Enfield-Burke]

Just for everybody's information: We only have one "room" open in the chat room. This addresses a couple of user security issues, and is per DD's instructions.

(1) We don't have anything like sufficient personnel to monitor our chat areas in real time, 24 hours a day; it's hard enough to keep track of what's happening in just one chatroom when it's active. And (2) DD very much does not want to provide an environment on this website in which a stalker could get a younger member "off by themselves" in unsupervised live chat to groom them for a later attack. Any live chat that happens here, therefore, happens "in front of everybody else" and is logged every day. Either I, or DD, or both of us, see the previous 24 hours' chat traffic (if any) every morning.

For the time being, at least, members who want to discuss things privately can either use the "private topic" option on the Forums, or can avail themselves of ICQ or another instant messaging client.

As regards chat times and finding out who's where: the only way to do it is to log into the chat area and have a look around. Our membership base is nowhere near big enough for people to be in there all the time, let alone even some of the time...which is why we presently encourage users to sort out their own regional chat times.

[Birdhead]

Well, there used to be a couple of Aussies hanging around. I mean, you might not want to get stuck in chat with a couple of Aussie ockers, but... Now if any of them are still around (man of Limbo, are you there?) thet're gonna start making remarks about Kiwis. or, worse, the All Blacks... Oh well.
Ka Kite
Tui

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
STRESSING
She Who Is Supposed To be in Three or Four Places At Once every Lunchtime for the Next Two Weeks.

The All Blacks are cool. Have you seen that crazy war dance?

[Birdhead]

The All Blacks ROCK!
And of course I've seen the haka. I'm a Kiwi! Rugby is our national religion! The craziest thing about that particular haka is it's not even really about winning, or anything, it's about a guy being rescued from a kumara pit. See, there was a rangatira, a Maori chief, and he was at another tribe's pa (fortified village). Now, his tribe, IIRC, was at war against another tribe, and while he was at this pa, a group of that other tribe came running through looking for him. The people of the pa he was staying at hid him in a kumara pit so they would go past without finding him. Then, when they had gone, a warrior came to get him. He'd been told this warrior had really hairy legs- that's how he would tell that it was a "good" guy- not one of the ones that were out to get him. He was so happy to be able to leave the kumara pit, and to be alive (I mean, he must have been pretty scared. If they'd found him, they would have killed him.) that he made this haka. A literal, if not particularly inspiring, translation would be:
It was death, it was death!
But now it's life, it is life!
This is the man with the hairy legs
who made the sun shine for me again!
Up the ladder, up! Up to the top!
The sun is shining!
- as you can see, it's really not particularly war-like. It does sound scary, though!
Ka Kite
Tui

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
ON HOLIDAY! Wooo!

[Wilf]

Who cares about the haka? England are still going to beat New Zealand come the world cup.... resign yourself to it

[Birdhead]

Oh, suuuuuure. Whatever you say... NOT.
Ka Kite
Tui

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
ON HOLIDAY! Wooo!

[Wilf]

15-13

I shall say no more

[Birdhead]

Shut UP.
T
I really irritated my best friend by telling her "it's OK" She's much more of a fan than I am. She hung up on me. Heh.

Tuibird in Aotearoa
Conservationist, Scientist, and proud of both!
Chocolate lover extraordinaire...
Ahahahaha, ahahahahaha, ahahahaha...
My mission: Bringing Maori to the world!
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