Should Chatrooms have more staff than users?

[Deleted member 263960]

After touring several rooms, Ive noticed that a few rooms, have more staff than users. This leads to top heavy rooms, and I suggest moving the small rooms into larger ones, where the staff can actually do things or for the site to impose limits of over hiring.

What is the point in having 5 staff in a room with 3 users?

 

[ban active]

fair enough, what I was asking really was user counts that we see in the room, not total overall. Thanks for replying. Id add that just because a "maximum is allowed" doesnt mean things dont look top heavy,

There would only be about 30 users tops in General Chat if you had got rid of the pedos viles and repeat offenders dear lord stop being a troll

 

[Coyo]

My comment was based on looking at room lists and seeing how many users (of all types) showed as being in room at that time..

At the end of the day (and I can't speak for all admins of small rooms) but to answer your question in previous thread about Mobile Chat:

Sometimes in the day there's 20+ users in room, at least 4 guests. Other times during that same day there are 3 users. The team I've chosen all fit in very neatly throughout the day - hence the different timezones.

Sometimes a mod may have spare time and may choose to dedicate it to the room - which means of course there may be an overlap sometimes, making these rooms look "top heavy".

If you stick around for 5 minutes a day during the deadest part of the day (for Mobile it usually dies off for about 6 hours with 3 or so users) of course it'll always look "top heavy". But if you actually got involved in the community of the small rooms that you feel are over the top with staff you'd see that it balances out.

Never going to be a perfect ratio with huge user count fluctuations like these "small room admins" have.

I know my room well enough to know when it gets busy and when it's going to be dead - something I pride my staffing around. Again - it's never going to be perfect.

Hope this helps to clarify for you.

 

[ban active]

HR shut up dude.

We get it. You’re salty.

Is it that obvisous?

 

[Moose]

Staff are users too. When someone comes to a room for the first time, they’re more likely to stay and come back if there is someone of quality to chat with them.

A room is not going to grow if there’s no one to remove the random spam and that’s all that new person sees. 🤷🏻‍♀

 

[Inkandtatts]

After touring several rooms, Ive noticed that a few rooms, have more staff than users. This leads to top heavy rooms, and I suggest moving the small rooms into larger ones, where the staff can actually do things or for the site to impose limits of over hiring.

Rooms ive noticed this to varying degrees, are sports, live chat , mobile chat and music chat.

What negative experience in those rooms did you have that caused you to make this suggestion?

What would be the benefit of merging these rooms, or limiting staff numbers?

Assuming your suggestion of merging rooms were to be implemented, what would you suggest this room be called, Lively Musical Sports Mobility Chat? What would the theme be?

If you’re looking for that kind of mixed no-topic chat experience I’d recommend www.chat-avenue.com/general

 

[TheLeigh]

My comment was based on looking at room lists and seeing how many users (of all types) showed as being in room at that time.. .

As you’re already aware, the “invisible” feature exists for VIP chatters now, so while visiting a room and checking out their room list, you may not be able to see true numbers of how many are (or aren’t) currently in the room.

Equally, the invisibility feature has already remedied your concern of any room “appearing top heavy” when it comes to staff.

I hope this helps. 🙂

 

[babydolla]

It might be a good idea to have certain site staff able to move around site, as an alternative to overstaffing. At one time room admins could do that if I remember correctly.

College has 5 staff I think, but 1 user at times.

you know what, you’re right 🤷🏼‍♀️

matter-a-fact now that you’re gone lets make @Coyo general chat admin / mobile chat admin, like @TheLeigh is admin of two rooms…

while we’re at it, @Coyo can make me, @Ken_Kaneki, & @Akrta general chat mods too just to spite u 👺

do a better job than your dumbass anyday l0l

believe it ✌🏻

 

[Louize]

It's really sad that you've gone this route of pettiness, when you couldn't keep your own "busy" room in order when you were a UM.

At least the mods under @Coyo wouldn't give a predator a 2nd chance, or be scared to question him, they seem to enjoy modding with him, which usually leads to feeling more comfortable being not just a mod, but a participating member of the chat room, too.

I used to be a reg in Dating chat years ago, and that was a "quiet" room. Sometimes you'd have 40 people in, other times (Especially during UK hours, as the majority of regs were American in DC) there would appear to only be 3 ********.

People who enjoy talking to each other usually manage to figure out what times to catch their chat friends... I'd say you should know, but given you only have 3 chat friends, maybe you never really got the gist of it.

Consider stepping back and rethinking how you approach your pettiness before typing it out and looking stupid.

 

[Kim]

OMFG why are you all enabling him by replying to any of his desperate threads?

 

[Coyo]

OMFG why are you all enabling him by replying to any of his desperate threads?

We don't want him to just walk in the door of the famed bitter ex admin mansion. We want to throw the idiot into your welcoming arms.

We'd like invites if there is to be cake at initiation please and thanks

 

[Louize]

OMFG why are you all enabling him by replying to any of his desperate threads?

Also, it's nice knowing he can't edit, delete, or hide our comments that make him look stupid anymore.

 

[babydolla]

OMFG why are you all enabling him by replying to any of his desperate threads?

bc irony is a cruel mistress 💅🏻

 

[-Luka]

Ironic part is, if this thread was made and he was still UM it’s be closed, edited, moved to mod forum and then resurfaced 2 weeks later. 🤣

He’s dying for Hannah to return in 2 days also now fairy is leaving and Cheryl is getting annihilated by everyone and their man for her dodgy tits

 

[babydolla]

Ironic part is, if this thread was made and he was still UM it’s be closed, edited, moved to mod forum and then resurfaced 2 weeks later. 🤣

He’s dying for Hannah to return in 2 days also now fairy is leaving and Cheryl is getting annihilated by everyone and their man for her dodgy tits

IDK what everyone expected from @SexyCheryl, shes a fuckin’ librarian, librarian’s aren’t sexy; ever

she has exactly the kind of boobies u would expect from a librarian, can anyone here honestly say they has encountered a sexy librarian before? NO!

never in my days, from school to public libraries, has i seen a librarian that is even cute, let alone sexy, for god sakes 🙄

what was @SexyCheryl thinkin’??? this is real life, not a late night low budget softcore porn on cinamax, get it together woman…

jeez louize 🙈

 

[CLEMS0N]

Kwaing BOI is plotting for revenge.

 

[-Luka]

plotting for revenge on a Nokia 3310

 

[-Chopper-]

Or BT Cellnet phone box

 

[emileh]

After touring several rooms, Ive noticed that a few rooms, have more staff than users. This leads to top heavy rooms, and I suggest moving the small rooms into larger ones, where the staff can actually do things or for the site to impose limits of over hiring.

What is the point in having 5 staff in a room with 3 users?

Here's a straight reply to your question.

Firstly, you cannot judge a room by a single or even a few visits. Some rooms may be quiet at a particular time and busier at others. You'd have to be very familiar with a room and spend a lot of time in it to get a feel for how busy it can really be. Secondly, not every room admin enforces modding schedules and times on their staff. Mods can have a bit of free time and just pop on to have a chat with their colleagues or friends in the room while it's quiet. Again, you'd have to be very familiar with the room and how it works to get a feel for how staffing works in that room. Most admins are pretty chill about how their volunteer mods donate their time as long as they pick up a share of the workload.

 

[babydolla]

Here's a straight reply to your question.

Firstly, you cannot judge a room by a single or even a few visits. Some rooms may be quiet at a particular time and busier at others. You'd have to be very familiar with a room and spend a lot of time in it to get a feel for how busy it can really be. Secondly, not every room admin enforces modding schedules and times on their staff. Mods can have a bit of free time and just pop on to have a chat with their colleagues or friends in the room while it's quiet. Again, you'd have to be very familiar with the room and how it works to get a feel for how staffing works in that room. Most admins are pretty chill about how their volunteer mods donate their time as long as they pick up a share of the workload.

ignore him,

he used to admin general chat, general chat has 500+ users…

which looks cooler than it is, bc 75% of those users are bots & predators 🤷🏼‍♀️

 

[emileh]

ignore him,

he used to admin general chat, general chat has 500+ users…

which looks cooler than it is, bc 75% of those users are bots & predators 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh the majority of guest accounts rarely contribute anything of value if my experiences in my own room are anything to go by. It may be different in other rooms of course.