Kevin Blackwood Chat Guest on 7-9-09!

[creeping panther]

Originally Posted by KenSmith

I think our chats are best left unpublished. In my opinion, the chats will be a more useful feature if participants know their comments won't be permanently archived and searchable by Google.

Opinions?

No way should any chat be copied or archived. We can speak freely now, we cannot if it is on record.

CP

[johndoe]

I think you always need to assume it's on record; there's really nothing stopping someone from archiving it and posting it themselves.

Therefore, they should be archived at least for members with good standing (no sense making it too easy).

[Canceler]

Originally Posted by KenSmith

...comments won't be permanently archived and searchable by Google.

If the transcript was attached to a post as a .doc file, would Google find it? (I have no idea.)

[Cherry7Up]

Originally Posted by johndoe

I think you always need to assume it's on record; there's really nothing stopping someone from archiving it and posting it themselves.

I think this is quite true and important to remember.

As to Google indexing, I think that can be prevented simply by using a "robots.txt" instruction but I am no web expert.

[rukus]

Originally Posted by creeping panther

no way should any chat be copied or archived. We can speak freely now, we cannot if it is on record.

Cp

+1

[mdlbj]

Here you go ken.

http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

Drop in /var/www if your running apache or root folder of your web server.

Originally Posted by Cherry7Up

I think this is quite true and important to remember.

As to Google indexing, I think that can be prevented simply by using a "robots.txt" instruction but I am no web expert.

[zengrifter]

How was this chat? Here is an announcement that Ken made in 2005 that Kevin would be a regular contributor here... and then he made like two posts and disappeared. zg

[sagefr0g]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

How was this chat? Here is an announcement that Ken made in 2005 that Kevin would be a regular contributor here... and then he made like two posts and disappeared. zg

it was a great chat zen. right up there with the one we had with you.
during the chat Kevin mentioned that he is currently more into another game, not so much blackjack, anymore.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by sagefr0g

it was a great chat zen. right up there with the one we had with you.
during the chat Kevin mentioned that he is currently more into another game, not so much blackjack, anymore.

And what game is that pray tell? zg

[sagefr0g]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

And what game is that pray tell? zg

well, it was a semi public chat for us all, and you could have been there.
so i guess no big deal if i posted the answer.
but i won't cause i don't know if Kevin would have posted that info, if you had of been there. not that i think he in anyway wouldn't have trusted you with that info, but as far as others who could read it here, i don't know.
maybe, if i don't tell you, then maybe you'll start attending more chats.
then maybe we'll have the benefit of your presence more often.