Chat

[Antares]

the chat sucks
can it be updated too
AND SECURED!


when i get more energy and patience i will explain

[Maverick]

I think the chat is fine.

[Aηdy]

Theres hardly any difference.

[Antares]

okay heres the story

i was on chat and there was this other person and this person has not been active on VT for 6 months and he got on there and for some reason when i tried to do anything i would mysteriously get kicked off. and that happened to other people too. is there some way he found some way to kick people off? and can that connection expires thing be fixed to because it was mysteriously happening exery few secounds and then it stoped after chrono kicked him off.

[MoveAlong]

Are you talking about Jono? Jono is a chatbot that was installed by Kiros. It messes up the chat and was formerly known as 'VirtualTeen' (he appeared after the site was hacked in 2006). This chatbot was very very annoying and messed up the chat for everyone (slowed it down, made bad connection problems etc) and was removed.

Evidently, Kiros decided to re-install it (after he updated the site to vB 3.6.7, I saw him alone in the chat for a few minutes) and renamed it.

So in conclusion, this is not a ghost member or a hacker, since he does not appear on the 'Who's In Chat' list at the bottom of the index. He is part of the chat! :P


edit: P.S.: after I found out about Jono and noticed that he was a chatbot (did this 2 days ago), I logged out. Now I can't get into chat - it won't recognize my login info

[Antares]

well is this sometype of joke or something
i mean the actual member has like 1000+ posts
this weird and why would you install something like that??? :confused:
I AM CONFUZZLED

[MoveAlong]

Nah, it's not a joke. It's just way too hard on the chat.

Chatbots are made to chat, so when nobody is in the chat, you can talk to the chatbot.

I'm not sure how the name got picked tho :P

[Antares]

well the chatbot has issues i tell ya
it was really creepin me out
i think he should just be fixed! (if that can happen)
becuase hes not helping the people in chat hes kickin them off

[Hyper]

Hmm talking to Kiros's schizo side............ :eek:

[Chrono]

i have no clue, all i saw was a bot named after an inactive member and i just assumed

[Kiros]

The reason I added this new bot, Jono, was because it's a new version of FlashChat (a beta one). I wanted to see if the problems still remaned with the bot, and apparently, they do. I'll go ahead and remove that bot.

[-Silence]

Hehe, Kiros, why the name Jono?

I haven't seen him in ages!! :-P

[Antares]

yeah why not "botty" or "Mr. Chat"