Agree with the above posts.

all other forums i patronise have chat rooms, one i've been a member for 10 years and i still never pop into the chat room simply because i never felt the need to venture out off the main forums but i never have felt a grudge towards people who rub their  friendliness in, it doesn't bother me, if you feel something mentioned would benefit you you can simply ask although my personal policy in here is to not ask specific questions  because previous questions have been unanswered so i have learn't my place and pulled up my seat  comfortably. in my preferred corner. overall a chatroom would not bother me.

Aw...  Don't read too much into that CB, it happens but not for any reason in particular - very often it just gets missed or there is no answer at that time and then it kind of moves down the list without being noticed by those who may have a response.  A good example is a thread I started that got a reply fairly recently, a year after I posted it  :mwaha:

I've never used a forum chat room  as they move too fast for me - I chat with my friends on msn but even then I can only cope with 2 windows at most!

ETA oh my status has changed! I've turned gobshite the last few days  :mwaha:

If you read a lot of the threads around this forum, you'll see them end up as 'chat' anyway, straying away from the whole point of the thread.
There's also the Naughty Corner for other bits and pieces.

sarah, i'm definately not 'instant messaging' with you.

no worries H,

Happy with what we have here it works so why fix it??

In another forum, writing related, we have a chat which we use only on chatty nights... the time and date have been decided beforehand and we chat just that night. The chat should be related to the texts (short stories, poems etc) on the forum but it doesn't always. It has been very nice. I take part only a few times a year.

I don't understand why anyone would feel bad about others meeting in a chat or in real life... not hearing/seeing everything that everyone else says? Hummm... is this somehow culture related? Heresides we don't want to hear/see everything  

I like it here! Never been in a chat room - always thought it would be a bit like this because when I'm posting, i feel like I'm talking to everyone anyway. You can read posts since last visit to catch up with what everyone is doing and if you want to, you can PM people. you can also view replies to your posts to see what other people have contributed to the same topic.
Also, fresholi is a really useful resource - can you get the same access to info in a chat room? for example, if somebody gave some advice a year ago about a problem you have today could you read it, and see what others thought about it etc.

Personally it wouldn't bother me but on another forum it really caused problems - some people (one in particular) really felt they were missing out on something, I suspect they thought we were talking behind their backs which we weren't - says more about them than us I imagine. 

hmm, i dont know why most people so far are against the idea of a chat room, i wouldn't patronize it myself, but i see it as a platform for those who want to get buddy to extend the exchanges. i find it tedious and time consuming  but i dont see how it would harm how the forum is run, i presume people in chatrooms chat about the weather  and the mundane things in life. i have  afriend who met his wife in a  chatroom about 6 years ago, and they married after about 5 years of  cyber dating and travelling to meet each other. looking on the bright side, we could even have the first fresholi marriage via  a chatroom.