Subject: join discussions
I would love to participate in the next chat with
Julie. Is this possible?
I'm registered as (withheld) on your forum.
thanks
Bill
PS I'm a life long Yankee fan. I hope that
won't disqualify me
Bill, great question, and no, being a Yankee fan won't keep you out.
The way I understand it, there are two problems with the chat room.
1. If everybody shows up, and by everybody I mean more than 50-60
people at a time, it becomes impossible to have
a conversation.
If a hundred people show up, which has happened
before,
the system crashes and nobody can talk to anybody.
2. When the ditto-monkeys show up, they aren't interested in debate
or conversation - their only purpose is to disrupt
and insult the others.
I came up with a plan in the last few minutes that is not well-thought
out.
This may come off as blatant money-grubbing, but if the money's not
for me
maybe it'll sound a little better.
If someone were to send a check made out to Julie Hiatt Steele,
they should be allowed access into the chat room, I would think.
Let's say someone sends $25. I doubt a ditto-monkey would spend
$25 for the "privilege" of calling Julie some nasty names. If I'm wrong,
she's a big girl and has heard all those words before, but there surely
wouldn't be a lot of DM's willing to spend that money, right?
Like I said, this is just a fleeting thought, and money isn't the end-all
to everything, but it solves the DM problem and it also gives a reader
a chance, if they wanted, to "speak" with JH Steele.
Sidebar:
Readers have written to Julie at juliehiattsteele@bartcop.com
and received very nice personal replies from
her. You can write to her for free.
Maybe this is a good idea, maybe it's not.
My good idea/bad idea ratio runs about 1/4 it seems, but if I had $25
and I
really wanted to see what the chat room buzz was about, I'd spend the
money.
If a lot of people send $25, surely we can work out something where
Julie
can have a regular Wednesday night chat room of her own, for example.
Let me know what you think.