Local Chats

[matttren]

Have any of you looked under the chat directory and came across a chat section titled Local? Under this are only about 10 cities I think. One of them being Philadelphia. I am from the Philadelphia area. Now is it wrong of me to believe being that this is a Philadelphia LOCAL chat, which it is intended for people whom are from the Philadelphia area? Is it wrong of me to become agitated at people who come in here from Hicksville Pennsylvania, because they construe this as a "Pennsylvania chat"? Then when I ask them why they come in here they get rather ill mannered with me, saying, "Because I can." Do I have a right to be pissed off that my local chat is being filled with many outsiders?

Ultimately will anyone help me sponsor http://www.trenchik.com/aimchats on a larger scale? More Chat room rooms for AIM because apparently the administrators of AIM just don’t care.

[Jeff]

It is what it is. Not much you can do to prevent people from chatting in a a "local" room. You can get agitated if you want, but it really doesn't change anything. I don't think it's a matter of AOL not caring, either. There just not much they can do about it realistically.

I think the rooms that trenchik has setup seem like a decent alternative. The other would be to monitor the Philidelphia room and invite people to a private chat room (filtering out the bots and people from California).