Proposal for a NEW Cannabis.com Chatroom

[thcbuz]

I say if you want a chatroom on IRC thats called cannabis.com,you can have it.fairly simple task.then you can invite who you wish to join you there.but you can't expect www.cannabis.com to consider itself affiliated in any way,shape,form or fashion.my personal humble opinion of mirc is a big waste of bandwidth with thousands of trollers and flamers sitting back waiting to drop ya a trojan or some other hack.been there ,done that.mirc's older than the trolls that go there.I too don't have the highest post count at the site either;but I'd rather rock back here first and support the site's new owner's to see how they upgrade this site before I try to fix something thats not quite broken yet.see ya in the funny papers,'Buz

thcbuz Reviewed by thcbuz on 06-19-2006. Proposal for a NEW Cannabis.com Chatroom Hello Everyone, I'm posting here, to make a proposal (and somewhat a petition) for a new chatroom! Getting bored with the long, java load times? Simply fed up with constant disconnects, or insecure java applets? Let's work together to make a change! Please vote on the poll above, It helps to get a very general idea of the support I have on the subject, but please post as to your reasoning of your vote, and your suggestions and comments! Now, first of all, I'd like to tell you a little Rating: 5

[Zandor]

Hey Zandor,

Any chance in the proposed upgrade of giving us the ability to edit or delete our messages?

I know we can edit our posts up to 5 minutes after posting them, but after that we are SOL.

I understand what you are asking. Even moderators posts are treated the same way.

The administrator sets the duration of how long a thread can be edited. Moderators have no control over that feature.

The old rules of donâ??t say it if you will regret it later is still the rule here too. Not that I agree totally with that, but there needs to be more of a middle ground. I understand both sides but even I don't have an answer as to where the middle ground should be.

Think what a thread on growing would end up like if every third post was not there but they were the ones that had the correct information. Now you have a thread that had no point to it and the information was wrong. So some where there needs to be a middle ground.

I just wish I had a better answer.

[Brother Schenker]

Cheers for the reply, Zandor.

I guess the middle ground would be unlimited time to edit your post.
It didn't seem to cause many missing posts at Overgrow. Once in awhile you might have to scratch your head and figure out what had been said due to a post having been edited to nothing, but that would usually only happen in the Lounge rather than the Grow forums. It's the Lounge where we usually fly off the handle and say something we later regret and want to remove.

[Cylon]

Well....as I've said before...I don't expect Cannabis.com to open a server, I suggested they affiliate themselves with an already popular network...I wouldn't pay for the extra bandwith you're right, but then again, I have to pay for my own bills long before I'd pay for a websites. I know I'm new here, but that doesn't make my opinion any less valued, why should it? If I honestly didn't care about the site, why would I even suggest this, and do the research I did? I'm a big supporter of open source software, you'll find that I'm very anti-capitalist and commercialism. It's not my limited funds that prevent me from paying, but also, I don't believe people should have to pay for services rendered on the internet, I believe the fee we pay to our ISP should cover that...

Now, as to the File transfer thing, that's hardly an issue for the chat, people have the ability to disable or enable CTCP (Client to Client Protocol) file transfers with every IRC client i've ever used...Security is hardly an issue if you know what you're doing...It's the same issue with anything in relation to a networked computer, as long as you know what you're doing, you're safer than most. As for "Dropping a trojan", please...be real here...I've been an IRC user for almost 7 years now...I've been friends with computer hackers, and network administrators ever since I started using IRC. People honestly don't prowl IRC, looking for people like you, to hack. Honestly, what makes you think you're important enough to attract the attention of a hacker? These people you refer to aren't true hackers, they are script-kiddies, who use other people's software, and research, to "hack"...

As to the chat not being an issue as of yet, I find that hard to believe, I already answered on a thread that was related to someone's problem loading the Java Applet. Java is an unreliable means for chatrooms in my opinion, if you want to talk about security, I think we should address Java exploits! :P

Besides the obvious issue here, I want to address concerns, a lot of people have agreed with me on this matter, and I don't suggest we give up the web-based chat completely at all! A web-based IRC-link can be used on site, and those of us who use IRC clients, can connect via a way that would benefit us...

I understand your arguement, and I wanted to make it clear I wasn't talking about running your own server! I've been there, it's a difficult and rather tedious process, hardly worth the attention. I suggested that we use an already established network, to host a #Cannabis.com channel, If you truely look at the ParaChat software, I don't see how you can so completely oppose the idea.