Chat Room Policy

[Norm]

Our wide variety of members may be inhibiting use of the chat room. Novice users, naturally, wish to learn from the experienced. The experienced, at times, may wish to converse without questions that, to them, are like asking ‘How do you breathe.’ In an effort to resuscitate the chat rooms, some minor changes have been made.

There are now two rooms:

Room Général

• This is the room you first enter and is designed for general conversation.
• All registered members may enter.
• When you enter, you will be able to scroll back the previous five messages to get a taste of the current chat. (Feature removed)
• Guest Chats are held in this room.

Room Trèfle

• To enter this room, right-click on the room in the right panel and select Join.
• Members registered for five days with at least five posts may enter.
• When you enter, you will NOT see any previous messages, so you always know who sees your posts.
• Novice questions are strictly forbidden.

There is no enforcement at this time. Let’s try to avoid the need.

When you look at “What’s Going On” at the bottom of the main forum display, a list of all users in chat will be displayed. If you wish to know what rooms they are in before entering chat, in the submenu below the navigation bar at the top, click Community, then Who’s Chatting. The list will be broken up by room.

This policy is not set in stone. Comments/suggestions are very welcome.

[21forme]

I suggest they be called Salon Général and Salon Trèfle (you started it )

[Norm]

Ahh, but can you tell me the significance of the word Trèfle?

[21forme]

You mean being French for Clubs or something else?

[Norm]

French for clover, which the suit clubs represents. And Blackjack uses a French deck. And, the room is also a "club," a social gathering place. And, people that ask novice questions in the club will be clubbed.

[Roswell Crash Survivor]

French for clover, which the suit clubs represents. And Blackjack uses a French deck. And, the room is also a "club," a social gathering place. And, people that ask novice questions in the club will be clubbed.

Always a good day to meet a connoisseur of Double Entendres. Or was that a Triple Entendre?

[Tarzan]

So in the one room I can discuss makeup, eyeliner tips and color of pantyhose that would best hide my hairy legs when in the casino and in the other I can't discuss this topic. This simplifies things for me immensely and now I am completely clear on this...

It's quite often that novice and recreational players ask questions that can be answered by quoting references in one of the many blackjack publications out there on the street on the forum but I don't show up for chat often enough to know if it happens there. Will 5 posts and being around for a few weeks be equivalent to an individual who has poured over at least 5 or 6 popular blackjack books so no longer has to ask basic questions? Maybe so because my 12 year old niece announced to the world at large that she is a better blackjack player than me because she won a few hands playing alongside me one time on my table at home, has never read a blackjack publication of any kind and doesn't even know basic strategy!hahaha Okay, just joking around (except for the part about her winning big while actually playing quite poorly)... I barely get here often enough to read over new stuff for 10 minutes here and there, much less make it for chat. There was a potentially interesting chat that happened recently that I made a mental note to attend and found myself seeing an email about it the next day since I was involved with a blizzard of blackjack during that time and at the tables the night of the chat.

I'm also involved with a writing project that is tedious and time consuming that has had me asking my own stupid questions to myself, causing me to dig through an attic through old boxes of papers from 20 years ago and blow the dust off them. Are you telling me that all I had to do was attend the right chat room and I wouldn't have to dig through my attic for old file folders?

[Ouchez]

Norm,

That is an interesting approach you are taking to the Chats. Props to you.

It is my hope that in time you will surpass the membership of BJINFO, because you deserve to.

Great job.

Ouchez.