Chat room
A chat room is an online forum where people can chat online (talk by broadcasting messages to people on the same forum in real-time). Sometimes these venues are moderated either by limiting who is allowed to speak (not common) or by having moderation volunteers patrol the venue watching for disruptive or otherwise undesirable behavior.
Chat systems include Internet Relay Chat (or IRC, where rooms are called "channels"), Jabber, and several proprietary systems on the Microsoft Windows and Java platforms.
Chatrooms are often confused (especially by the popular media) with Internet forum (or discussion groups), and even with the various IM(Instant messaging) systems being used; all are similar in some ways but different in significant ones. Forums in particular, do not take place in real-time and are usually run over the World Wide Web, while most chat rooms are independent of the Web, though there are browser plug-ins for many systems.
Several chat rooms with a BDSM focus are hosted by bondage.com, and Fetlife.com is essentially a BDSM chat room writ large.
SM-201 chat rooms
SM-201 maintains chat room software to allow users to interact with each other. It is strongly advised you check Online dating article before ANY online service. Do not exchange personal information. Although we tend to monitor chat rooms occasionally, we can't be online 24/365.
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Chat_room ]
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