I have a suggestion for the IP.chat Devs which an IPS Tech (Hi Jason H.!) has suggested I post as he agreed it would be useful.
My suggestion is that the "You have been kicked from the chat room" system message is changed so that the member(s) can see WHO actioned the kick-out.
At the moment, we have an a small issue on my board where member's are being randomly "kicked" for no known reason. It's no doubt just connection issues, but with the message to the removed member and the chat room just being "You/<Member Name> has been kicked from the chat room" it can cause conflict between the member base and the admins.
This weekend we had such an instance where a member's connection dropped with the generic "kicked" message. A heated discussion then followed about why the admins had kicked the person out and which one had done it. We tried to explain the situation with random disconnections but I get the feeling the members do not believe us, and I'm sure we can all appreciate how quickly conspiracy theories can soon explode on forum communities.
Unfortunately, I didn't realise at the time that the kick message did not show who the kicking admin was (which shows how rarely I have to kick anyone out - I've had to do it with IP.chat, and we've been using it well over 6 months now!) and so I jumped at the chance to actively kick someone when a member offered to be kicked out so people could see the difference in the kick message from an admin and one where the connection has just dropped. Of course the messages were identical, so I didn't help things by doing that sadly. lol
Another suggestion is maybe to change the disconnection system message grammar so that it says "Your connection to the chat room has dropped" or something, so that it's less confrontational that "You have been kicked out of the chat room".
Anyways, that's my couple of suggestions for IP.chat. I'm sure it would be a very useful addition for a lot of people - as well as me, of course.
Thanks for reading this folks. Have a great week!
Jason D.
