What is the shout box?

[Jackrabbit41]

I always have red notifications from the shout box, what is it? thanks 

[Eagle]

Personally, I ignore it.

[cruiser54]

Personally, I ignore it.

Me too. 

[yellaheep]

Yeah, I don't get the purpose of the shout box either.  It's like live-blogging I guess....... but trying to follow what's going on in there most of the time is like herding cats....... 

 

Plus, info gets lost in there.

 

I say scrap it personally.

[Doc.]

Isn't that what they used to stand on in the olden days to speak up on politics and what not? Oh wait, that was a soap box. Don't know what a shout box is, never heard of it.

[HOrnbrod]

Seems like mostly newbs use it. I guess they find a use for it.   :dunno:

[Eagle]

Another forum I belong to has an area for "Blogs." Like our shout box, I never even look at it. If I wanted to read blogs, I would go to a blog site. If I'm in a forum site to discuss, I'm in a forum site to discuss.

 

Seems pretty straightforward to me, but it seems like the people/companies that create forum software think they have to be like a Swiss Army Knife of Internet software. IMHO we would be better off if they would just focus on making their forum software work better, faster, and more reliably.

[cruiser54]

Another forum I belong to has an area for "Blogs." Like our shout box, I never even look at it. If I wanted to read blogs, I would go to a blog site. If I'm in a forum site to discuss, I'm in a forum site to discuss.

 

Seems pretty straightforward to me, but it seems like the people/companies that create forum software think they have to be like a Swiss Army Knife of Internet software. IMHO we would be better off if they would just focus on making their forum software work better, faster, and more reliably.

Agreed.

 

Just a note here:

 

to those using the shout-box, don't expect any  good advice from it. 

[HOrnbrod]

^^  For sure.

[Pete M]

I wish I could make it go away, but I don't have the skills to change code.