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 What are the chat rules? | | The main rule of the chat is not to break general person.com rules. You can see them here. Besides, try to stick to the topic of the room. Remember that the operators of each room can forbid access to it for other users at own discretion. Breaking these rules will result in banning you from the site.
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| How to start the Chat? | | Simply open this page and select the room you'd like to join. Click "join room" to get in.
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| Contacts Panel |
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1. Private Chat Request. It shows the number of unread private messages from users who are not in your contact list.
2. Private chat section. It shows the list of users you are chatting with in private right now.
3. The envelope image shows that you have an unread message from this user. Webcam icon means that user's webcam is on.
4. Current chat room.
5. Switches IMS into one of the chosen modes - Chat for group conversation or IM (Instant Message) for private chat.
6. Room operators (people who moderate the room).
7. One of chatroom users (left click user's nickname to open the menu).
8. Actions menu. Set of actions depend on what kind of rights you have.
9. The number of users in the chat room.
10. 'Join the room automatically' button. Press this button and you'll always join that room automatically after starting IMS.
11. Turn on/off sound notification when new messages arrive.
12. Turn on/off chat window pop up when new messages arrive.
13. Hide/Show search panel button.
14. Swap the panels.
15. Press this button to view/edit the Chat settings.
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| Chat rating |
Rooms are sorted by the rating value in the "find room" window. That total rating value is build on 6 rating values, based on:
- visitors from certain country (who can enter the room);
- number of messages in the room in the near past;
- newness of the room;
- age filter (who can enter the room);
- gender balance of room visitors;
- who controls the room right now.
1. Room name.
2. Room rating.
3. Basic rating parameters (rating is calculated based on them) – from 4 to 12.
4. The less users from the allowed country the higher is the value; it is ignored if country filter is not set to allowed in the "room settings". In this example, there are 7247 users total on the site and 1208 from the allowed country.
5. Group of message weight. Message weight reflects the chat activity in the room: the more messages are said in the room the higher is the value. Regular message weights 1 point, whisper messages weight less, operator's messages weight more. If number of messages is too high, so it is hardly possible to read them, the values decreases instead. The number in the braces is message weight before message quantity filter, so if it is higher that the value before braces you can be sure that the room speaks too much.
6. Message weight, calculated for the last minute.
7. Message weight, calculated for the last 5 minutes.
8. Combined message weight, used for further calculations.
9. This is bonus, given to recently created (new) rooms. Bonus is given for 3600 seconds (1 hour) and constantly decreases from 1 to 0 during the time. The newer is the room the higher is the bonus value. Note that user can create a limited number of rooms per day.
10. The less is the allowed age range, the higher is this value. Allowed age is set in the room settings (by default, it is from 18 to 100). In this example, allowed ages are from 18 to 45. Note, that there is no much sense to allow age range less that 3 years (this will not increase your rating as compared with 3 years).
11. This value depends on the ratio of male and female users in the room: as they are close one to each other, the values grows; the maximum value is when number of males and females are equal in the room. It does not depend on the total number of room visitors.
12. This value depends on the number of active users with escalated privileges (creators, operators and sops) currently being in the room. The more – the better, but having 10 operators is not much better than having just 2-3. Creator weights 2 points, others weight less. In this example numbers in braces mean that there is 1 creator in the room, 3 operators and 1 sop, and ops and sops all together give 1.329 points.
13. Rating values summed all together give the room's total rating.
14. Country rating, based on the country's parameter above.
15. Messaging rating, based on the messaging weight above.
16. Newness rating, based on the new room bonus above.
17. Allowed age rating, based on the corresponding parameter above.
18. Gender balance rating, based on the (11).
19. Control rating.
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| Active History Panel | 
1. Current chatroom name.
2. Hide/show timestamps.
3. Hide/Show system notifications. By pressing this button you can make system notifications (user has joined the room, user left the room and the like) visible or invisible.
4. View the list of all chat rooms available at the moment.
5. Press this button to create your own chatroom. More information you can find here 'how to create a chatroom'.
6. 'Room settings' button allows you to view/edit the current room settings if you have enough rights.
7. Press this button to view the chatroom history (200 latest messages).
8. The private message (whisper) from user Foxy to user mike_uk.
9. System notifications are written in green & red.
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| What will be my nickname in chat rooms? | | Your nick will be the same as your Person.com one. A number will be added to it if such nick is already taken by another chat user.
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| Operators. Who are they? What can they do? How to become an operator? | | Operators are the chat room users with special rights. As a rule operators moderate chat, set topics, ban users who violate the rules. The user who creates the room becomes the operator automatically. The creator of the room can make any user in the room the operator as well.
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| How to create a chatroom? | Every person.com user can create a room. Before creating a room you should have IMS window open.
To open your IMS window click the number of new messages or 'My messages' link at the top of the page.
And then press 'Start Messanger' button at the right top of the page.
If the IMS window is open and you are not in any chatroom, press "chat" tab:
and then click "create room" button at the bottom of the page:
If you've already entered some chatroom press "create room" button at the top of the chat room window:
Then fill out the form and click "create a new room":
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| Can I personally decide who can chat in the room and who can't? | | While creating a room you can specify some filtres according to which the chat will let the users get into the chatroom. In particular it is possible to limit the number of the users chatting in the room at a time, allow or forbid the access to the room for users from a certain country, users of the certain age and gender. You can also make a room invisible or even set a password to access it, if you need.
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| How long do you keep chat history? Can I delete it? | | Chat history is stored for 30 days. Chat history of the deleted room is kept for 3 days. You can't delete or edit the history.
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| What are system commands and how to use them? | | System commands are special words which we enter as "/command" in the text area. Using them you can perform special actions (e.g, show the emotion/action by the special message, interact with others etc). Only current chatroom occupants can use its system commands. You can find the list of commands bellow.
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| Will I remain my room creator forever? When the room is deleted? | | The room is deleted if there are no users for more than 24 hours. You can't restore deleted room but you can create a new one with the same name. Apart from that you own the room forever until it's active so that special privileges will be given to you every time you enter it.
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| Do site admins moderate the chat? What should I do if someone abused me? | | Site administration will do their best to block spam and flood messages. However our main rule is as follows 'if you don't like the way you've been treated in a chat room just close it and find another chat room or create your own room'. But first of all it's creators and operators who are responsible for chatrooms moderation.
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| I've got a death threat. What should I do? | | We are very much serious about such statements. The user will always get banned from the site if the chat history really contains such messages (sent by him). If it happened to you, report it to our Support System ("Complain about User" section) immediately. Make sure to give us the ID or link to the profile of the user that threatened you, the room where it occured and aproximate time. Support Staff will check up the chatroom history and if it contains the threatening the user will be banned from the site.
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| The list of special commands, available to all users. | /join #room_name enter the room #room_name
/leave leave the current room
/quit quit all the rooms
/ignore ID You will not see the messages from this user. The user will not be notified. You can use nick instead of ID
/unignore ID cancel the command /ignore for the user
/me some_message The message some_message will be given in the room in third person (e.g. bull likes Long Island Ice Tea)
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| The list of special commands available to operators and room creators. | /mute ID mute the user. The user will be notified that he was muted and his messages will be invisible. You can use user's nick instead of ID
/unmute ID cancel the command /mute for the user
/kick ID kick the user out of the room (he/she will be able to join the room again if he wishes). You can use user's nick instead of ID
/ban ID forbid the access to the room for the user. You can use user's nick instead of ID
/unban ID cancel the command /ban the user
/op ID set the user as the room operator. You can use user's nick instead of ID
/deop ID cancel the command /op ID
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