Question

chat icon should be a chat bubble, not the math pi icon?

Answer 1

Agreed. If we start having chats for every subject the math pi icon should be for math.

Answer 2

we shouldn't have more than one or two community chats :P
maybe one for off topic chatting, and another for strictly question/study based

Answer 3

Yes I agree. But like brainly and OS, they have a chat for every subject. I don't think we should go that route but I was just giving an example.

Answer 4

mhmm I don't think brainly has a chat :P
but yeah, people have been suggesting on openstudy for ages to cut down the number of chats ^_^"

Answer 5

Yeah. it makes to much spam and eye problems

Answer 6

We do not need that here.

Answer 7

One for the major subjects, Math, Science, English, and Social Studies/History?

Answer 8

Yeah, but that is still going to cause problems and spam. Look at openstudy, every chat has spam...

Answer 9

Good point... Maybe only being able to access 1 chat at a time?

Answer 10

You can't moderate chats like you can when there is only one or two. That would work also but then we would need a mod to moderate all of the chats to make sure problems are solved and no conflicts happen. In OS there is fights like 24/7 in chats.

Answer 11

PA at least there's just the Global chat. But stuff still goes down in there even with Mods

Answer 12

True,

Answer 13

But then again, we have censoring stuff so things might not get as out of hand

Answer 14

True, that would help. I think there also needs to be a message timer, like a 10 second one or something so spambots don't work here.

Answer 15

I mean it isn't top priority because we don't have a huge user base but when we get bigger people are going to start having bots and such. We don't want that here because you can cheat the smart score system with spambots.

Answer 16

Cheating the smart score was how a few higher ranked people on Open Study got high. Shouldn't the site check to make sure multiple accounts that have the same email aren't for that?

Answer 17

Yes it does do that but spambots can spam on posts or in the chat box which can overtime gain you smartscore.

Answer 18

Kinda like how people would just post random stuff? They were being greedy and wanted extra points?

Answer 19

Yes! Exactly.

Answer 20

I understand now. Thank you

Answer 21

No problem.

Answer 22

the first suggestion, whale im working on it...
originally it was the math chat, but it was suggested to make it a global chat, and NOT have chats for every subject.

Answer 23

Wow, great discussion going on here... x'D

Answer 24

Yeah, I think it was very helpful.

Answer 25

one main chat.. and the ability to make private chats, only one at a time, ones that u can invite people to, maximum of 20 or so in those chats

Answer 26

That would work too.

Answer 27

Yes!!

Answer 28

I'd say 2 chats. Look at PA and their one chat, it gets overloaded sometimes, or hard to keep up with

Answer 29

I agree with your suggestion

Answer 30

these are all great ideas but it would take @Ultrilliam a really long time going back and forth from support land and doing all that coding..im looking forward to it though

Answer 31

^^