Chatting

[Panic Button]

It is obvious you don't like us chatting on B & S. You can see there is great demand though. Why not just give up and create a topic called Chat?

[stewey]

Excellent idea, Panic Button..........you beat me to it! A section for people who don't necessarily want to ask specific questions but just want to converse for a while. It wouldn't even need any sub-sections. People could get a "chat" going by simply posting something like:

Anyone interested in making model airplanes?
I'd like to talk to someone from Stoke.
Anyone out there remember "The Goon Show"?

[kempie]

I presume that neither of you were AB Users during the rise and demise of that hotbed of hostility known as Chatterbank.

[dot.hawkes]

is that meant to be veiled sarcasm stewy? lol

[stewey]

No it's not, dot.hawkes. I think it is a good idea that Panic Button has. No, kempie, I was not around then: what happened? Sounds like it was rather disastrous.

[DJerba]

What happened with Chatterbank? and where is it now?

[battersby]

I wish we could have Chatterbank back. I dont object to a bit of banter but I'd like all the inane chatter's to have a place of their own where they can say what they like to each other and swap e mail address's (which I thought was'nt allowed anyway). Let's face it,these folk really need somewhere where they can ask "What do you men find sexy in a woman?" or " What was the last thing you put in your mouth?". Or, "Im bored,will someone talk to me?". Maybe some of these poor soul's don't realise there are chat sites such as MSN,Yahoo etc.?

[Octavius]

I really don�t understand the constant desire for a chat board on Answerbank. Surely if people want to chat in cyberspace there are hundreds of other places to do so?

Although Chatterbank was useful in separating out the clique chatters and monotonous thread-filling �banter�, and provided a place for many desperate attention seeking sex starved and lonely billy-no-mates to get there dose of thrills. It was full of tedious rubbish and the people were offensive.

Why not try MSN or Cerescape?

[kempie]

Chatterbank was born (out of wedlock?) in June '05, had a brief but tumultuous lifespan, ultimately succumbing to the Grimmest of Reapers (apologies ABEd) early January '06.

You can view the carcass (with most of the bile removed) here...

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/

[stewey]

Now I can see what happened to Chatterbank. I guess now would be a good time for all of us to look a "pussnboots" question under "Phrases & Sayings.

[Skreecheeboy]

I would love to try those other options octavius but unfortunately we have tight security where I work and it can't be done! Plus I've only just found the B&S section and it's a bit more entertaining than looking at the BBC news web site all day over and over again!

[B00]

Oi, I resent Octavius's description of us ex Cbers- I may not have had (still don't :-( ) real life friends, thus putting me firmly in the 'billy on mates' category, but I definately wasn't there because I was sex starved.


sulks

[Panic Button]

I don't suppose they will stop the late evening chats, unless Ed does a late shift.

Then next day that thread gets moved to somewhere else.

Our bit of fun the other day was a case in point.

The one where I asked for numbers was moved to Quizzes and puzzles. The alphabet one was banned.

[dot.hawkes]

lol @ stwey, oh I just looked at your chat suggestions and mentally put them in exosting categories lol Chatterbank was a maniac place, 100 threads a day, very fast, surreal i guess, (pssst and B00 was trouble ; ))

[joko]

i'd much prefer all the chat and inane cr*p kept contained in one section, so the ed can watch it and delete any abuse, and anyone who wants to chat knows where to go.

as it is, it is spread all over the site pushing other stuff off the topics

and i am sure we all know quite well that B&S is chatterbank in all but name

[naz_nomad]

There is a section called Chat, but it's spelled wrongly.

Have you not heard of the Shat category, usually sub-titled Body & Soul?

[Octavius]

Yes my point above, and B00 I am sure you are well fed in that department (it wasn�t directly aimed at you), was that although it was contained in one place, CB got out of control and became too much to manage for the poor AB team with constant abuse, threats, profanity and lets face it �trailer trash.

Yes B&S could be the replacement CB and some of the questions are tiresome, but easily ignored. The cult following of inane sentiments such as the regular �in-house� quips about monkey suits and fondant fancies are equally lacklustre, but ultimately innocuous and also easily contained.

Less is more, so me mother told me.

[netibiza]

Yes Chatterbank was fun, but some people misused and it became a sort of Beirut. We even had a local pub called "Chatterbank Arms" where we could meet in the evenings, and it was fun. The poor Ed at the time, was threatened with legal emails, so it had to end.

[crete]

after the watershed there should be a site for anyone who wants to flirt and use sexual inuendos, as is happening on B S at the moment,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and no the posts dont bother me they just take up a lot of space .