Timeline for Toward a philosophy of Chat
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| Dec 14, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | ChrisW | I think that talking about Questions and Answers (i.e. the things on the Q&A site) is what comments are for. But then some people go off on a tangent and (want to) start a conversation based on something that was said in a comment ... when the subject is e.g. a comment, and is no longer the question or answer, maybe that's when it's too chatty. Some moderators think it's their job to delete chatty message, which distract from the Q+A, I'd rather be able to push such messages off to chat, especially if the target of the chatty comment were still notified that there is such a comment for them. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 7:39 | comment | added | Jeffrey Bosboom | Your three use cases are what I think chat is for -- talking about things on the Q&A site in an interactive way. It's a way to get help editing a question to be on-topic (or checking topicality before posting), for discussing tangential matters that wouldn't belong in an answer, and for maintenance (such as SO's close votes room). I don't see it as for socialization -- that's what forums and IRC are for. It's telling that you don't find chat useful for core Q&A-related purposes. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 5:14 | history | answered | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |