Fireside Chats With SneakyPie

[SneakyPie]

I had a blast chatting with you all and would like to continue it.

How often should we have these chats?

If you missed today's chat you can check it out in DropBox.

[SachielOne]

Just a note that the first recording is now uploading to the Dropbox. A lot of the recent drama is dealt with, so it may find it worth listening to. Just set aside a large block of time, as the thing is nearly two hours long.

I'll play with the encoding settings later to see if I can lower the file size.

Also, is that what I sound like to you guys? Damn.

[Godavari]

Bi-weekly sounds like a good number. It's not so often that there'll be nothing to chat about but not so rare that a lot of topics get dumped on you at once. I haven't listened to today's yet but i'm looking forward to it.

[Lord_Mountbatten]

[SneakyPie]

How did you know about the outfit I was wearing at the time?!

[wokka1]

Nice job sneaky, maybe you can share it around with the other team members.

[SachielOne]

While doing that was a fair bit of fun (I've never done anything even REMOTELY like that before), I feel that there is room for a great deal of improvement. I'm open to suggestions as to what I can do to improve this. I've got a few ideas about what I can do to streamline the question submission process, but I would like any input you guys (especially those who listened live) can give me.

Also, for future incarnations of this, I will try my hand at editing the recording to remove all the dead air. I felt that the information in this one needed to get out quickly in order to defuse the tension surrounding the Haxx Conspiracy. Also, I had to leave as soon as I got the raw audio uploaded to Dropbox to attend a tabletop gaming convention.

[vallorn]

well if we keep it so people have a space to comment without being told to stop typing that would be good.

and the question process seemed to include only a few individuals who made a lot of questions and many individuals who made very few questions.

[Blackadder51]

I might be going out on a limb here and this might not be the smartest thing to do, however maybe not muting normal players and letting them ask the questions. I found that once the mute ended it was not a massive shit storm like i thought it might have been.

[SachielOne]

There is a way I can manually unmute people, though it involves manually muting each user as they enter the chat instead of disabling ability of guests to transmit in that channel. It's a bit more work for me, but if I can figure out a way to streamline the question submission process, I'll have the time during the chat to actually do that.

[vallorn]

um heres an idea :

1 Mute every user except Mods before the Chat starts

2 in the Chat say whos gets thier turn next

3 introduce them in the Voice server

4 unmute them

5 after thier question is finished (question or answer) remute them.

if Sach does 2 and 3 and another person does 1, 4 and 5 this could be a very effective process

[SneakyPie]

Alright, It looks like we'll be doing this on a Bi-Weekly basis which is good.

I'll setup a sticky explaining more details and asking for questions for the next event.

[DuplicateValue]

I'm nearly finished listening to the recording - it's interesting hearing the different users' voices.

Also, it's nice to hear everything explained properly, hopefully I'll be able to attend the next one.