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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimmykorea on October 19, 2015, 02:43:01 pm

Title: Would a Trollbox be possible?
Post by: jimmykorea on October 19, 2015, 02:43:01 pm
I really enjoy like a lot of people chatting in the trollbox of polinex. Without this social side a trading site can find it hard to maintain interest.


So is it possible in a decentralised system. And if the exchange really grew massive way beyond a Polinex how could it be managed. I can see some difficulties like lack of mods or the need to create multiple rooms for number of people. Maybe even a paid service?

I dont have any answers, just questions but I think its something to think about as the platform develops. Bottom line humans like to connect and communicate and without this exchanges can get a little dry.

Maybe it would be something that is managed by a third party or just individuals clubbing together... but I think having an official decentralised chat would be ideal. 





Title: Re: Would a Trollbox be possible?
Post by: monsterer on October 19, 2015, 02:50:11 pm
but I think having an official decentralised chat would be ideal.

True decentralised chat will cost you $0.4 per message due to the fees. However, a web wallet could offer such a centralised solution for free.
Title: Re: Would a Trollbox be possible?
Post by: xeroc on October 19, 2015, 03:07:05 pm
True decentralised chat will cost you $0.4 per message due to the fees. However, a web wallet could offer such a centralised solution for free.
We had a discussion about adding tawk.to into the wallet .. but loading 3rd party javascript into your financing system is kind of dangerous ..
Title: Re: Would a Trollbox be possible?
Post by: oldmine on October 19, 2015, 03:24:03 pm
Do it! The webwallet is boring right now. People need an extra reason to stick around when there is no trading opportunities available.

As for 3rd party javascript - just copy it locally to the openledger server.
Title: Re: Would a Trollbox be possible?
Post by: pioneer on October 19, 2015, 03:25:03 pm
It's not possible to have an official #bitshares IRC chat built into the wallet? It could be centrally hosted on irc.bitshares.org for example. No need for any third parties.
Title: Re: Would a Trollbox be possible?
Post by: hadrian on October 19, 2015, 03:27:47 pm
It's a good idea for someone to create such a feature, perhaps as a third party wallet or app of some kind. I she that many people would love it! I suspect it won't be put in the reference implementation. The points made in the above posts give some relevant reasons.
Title: Re: Would a Trollbox be possible?
Post by: luckybit on October 20, 2015, 02:50:19 am
I really enjoy like a lot of people chatting in the trollbox of polinex. Without this social side a trading site can find it hard to maintain interest.


So is it possible in a decentralised system. And if the exchange really grew massive way beyond a Polinex how could it be managed. I can see some difficulties like lack of mods or the need to create multiple rooms for number of people. Maybe even a paid service?

I dont have any answers, just questions but I think its something to think about as the platform develops. Bottom line humans like to connect and communicate and without this exchanges can get a little dry.

Maybe it would be something that is managed by a third party or just individuals clubbing together... but I think having an official decentralised chat would be ideal.

Trollbox is absolutely necessary, and would not be hard to produce from a programmer perspective. It would take less than a day to create a trollbox.

On the other hand it would be better to do it right, and integrate it into the forums and into a new communications platform, than to just do a rush job. How could a Bitshares trollbox be different?

Maybe let people subscribe to anyone in the trollbox to get their feeds? Maybe let people charge a fee per subscription or use micropayments somehow?