I don't think I've ever seen a suggestion for a shoutbox.
It would probably be too chaotic to imagine at a site this large, but what the hell, I'll suggest it anyway. There's a really good hack on vBulletin.org for vB3.5 that manages to update instantaneously without having to refresh, which should kill the bandwidth concerns somewhat.
What the hell are you talking about?
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I think it's that box at the top of some forum pages that sort of scrolls through what some of the post are, but I more than likely am totally wrong. If that's what it is though, I don't like them. They're way too busy looking.
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A saybox is, in my experience, generally at the bottom of the site. It's like a universal thread/faux chat. People can put in their names and post replies and such. With as much traffic as we get, it'd get really chaotic really fast.
It's kind of like a chatroom. It has nothing to do with what's in the posts; there's one on FG if you want to go look. xD
edit: bah, Void beat me to it.
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Something like that would still require moderating and I could see that as being like trying to moderate usernotes. More visible, but way busier with everyone posting in one place. Not something I'd like to do.
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...No thanks.
It would be filled up with spam just like all the other tagboards are.
While it would unquestionably be spammy at a site this large, a possible side effect of its creation would be to reduce unnecessary spam on the actual forums. Which would probably please some or a great number of forum users.
I'm all for the idea, but not on this site. It would be way too busy and most of the posts would probably end up being requests for help in some Final Fantasy game, or something equally annoying.
It has it's novelty, but not something we need. I think it would clutter up the forums index. If people want to chat they can go to the chat room.
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Excess spam is reduced by the usernotes so this would be reduntant.
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It is?
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