Idle rooms (in General)

I seem to recall some policy against using idle rooms. If that policy is still current, then why do I see this when my chat starts?
Existing rooms:
Twilight Castle: 1 users
recluse: 1 users
hiding: 1 users
supreme: 1 users
New Zealand: 1 users
chelon: 1 users
null: 1 users
new players: 13 users
carnage: 22 users

You're correct Bart. Some chat ops routinely cleared out the idle rooms as a result of a request made by Jon a long time ago.

I guess we need to reinforce that creating a room and sitting afk is not to be encouraged and will result in a little "love tap" (kick) from a chat op.

I'd suggest chat ops get back into the habit of popping into user created rooms on a regular basis just to greet the occupants with a friendly smile and a "hi". If the occupant is afk and doesn't respond then a kick to close the room is not inappropriate.

A kick is no big deal and if you're just on a toilet break don't get all angry folks, just come back and make your room again.

Likewise, remember that unless you have a reason to be afk in NPs (ie you're an admin / op) there's no need to hang about afk there either :)

I don't _pop_ in! First I casually ping from outside once or twice, at 3-5 minute intervals because that is polite.

Then I barge in and kick the bodies a bit, to see if there's life in any of them. Then I rifle all the closets and cupboards looking for pocketable valuables. _Then_ I send out the dead.

You better not mess up my room, Bast.

You better not leave it unattended, Seran. :P

well i am active most of the time in my room, so thats not allow?

That's OK. Some of those rooms may be used properly, but the list was so long, that I didn't believe all of them were...

They were mostly idle.

There's a big difference between mostly-idle and all-idle. Mostly-idle is slightly active.

With all-idle, there's only one thing you can do: /kill them and rifle their accounts for loose change to send to Central Bank.

I am guilty of using an 'idle' room.

My reasoning is that from home my internet service is basically crap and the wait times to get it corrected are about 3.5 hours. (nice customer service)

I create my own room because my cable modem reboots about 3 times an hour but sometimes it will 3 times in 5 minutes. People get a bit fuzzy when you bounce in and out of carnage that much.

Oh yeah i have a 8 month old kid resulting in me going afk very often at her schedule. I was checked once and responded :)

So turn off chat?

I was going to go and start "enforcing it" but every time I do that, people get all pissy and start posting threads, so rather then worry about it, I figured I would let someone more important bring this up before acting on it.

Haha, Frod. Princess Bride?

:-)

As you wish.

removed null from frodbot's list of channels. my bad, forgot.

Well sometimes I don't always like seeing all of that chat crap, but I do like to be available if someone wants to chat with me. Make a room for Idlers so that we can sit in peace.

I'll second that - a permanent "idle" or "afk" room would fix this.

I will do my part to help with this imaginary problem.

afk, room would be nice.

that would be great!

What's to stop people from chatting in the AFK room, thus destroying the point of it?

They should just like make one room named AFK, if people wanted to stay online and in chat, they go there, that way there's not 8 different rooms. I think that's what they are trying to get at.