Regarding live.yahoo.com /deafread
 | By Tayler Mayer Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 |
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A friend of mine created the DeafRead chatroom at live.yahoo.com by mistake. She was searching for the chatroom that Amy and I experimented with last Friday, and accidentially created the chatroom by the name “DeafRead.”
She and I videophoned earlier today and she mentioned that she received some e-mails accusing her of trying to steal the DeafRead name. I am assuring you — it was simply a mistake and an innocent one. Knowing Arezo for some years now, I know she wouldn’t do it on purpose. There, I hope that helps clear some things up. 
I’ve e-mailed Yahoo! asking that the chatroom be transferred to DeafRead. We’ll see if they will or can.
The video chatroom has taken off in a bigger way–beyond expectations. But be sure to find time for your friends and family–that are physically present!
RE: trolls. Those are users that come in and offend everyone. Rudely. I haven’t tested it but I think each user can ban or block another user. The channel moderator isn’t required to do this. Test it and let me know if it works.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Tayler,
Thanks for your explanation for this deafread chat. It’s cool.
In regards of trolls, we the users couldn’t be able to ban or block them except flag them to wait for Yahoo to step in to kick them out. That’s the problem because sometimes it takes a while for that trolls to be kicked out.
Misha
February 19th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Hopefully Yahoo! will be generous enough to do that for you. I can believe it was a mistake. Just the other day, I typed in a random name and ta da, a room appeared. Apparently I created it by mistake.
Hopefully it will work out for the better and with more features. Like being able to scroll up in the text chatroom. It’s a fantastic experiment as far I am concerned.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Sometimes a mistake could be good!
Thanks for informing, Tayler
February 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
It was a luck of the draw that it became a hit. I think it is what deaf people need to connect one another that is soo far away.. I’m glad and thank you that you try it out and it was a explosion that took over in this community.
I’m glad most of us felt it was addiction but we are smart enough to step back and say ok. We need to balance our time to come and go. Also include our real world along with Vlogs/blogs. I think it was so new and people are not sure what to do next. With lot of discussion and sharing.. Everybody feels not alone and understand what to do about it. Advices are given about it.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Did you know your chair needs some adjusting? You seem tilted to one side eh? Grins.
I can see in the near future some scheduled and structured soapbox or a “workshop” sessions. The main larger window on top left could be the presenter, and one person takes care of moderating the chat session. All folks can come online and select whatever folks they want to watch on their bottom 4 panels, but the moderator could “assign the floor” to a person (via chat or video), so the person can ask questions to the presentator.
I could envision topics that you had at DeafRead be “vLog-ized” this way, and live!
February 19th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Mistake would make deafread to become more famous….
February 19th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Tayler,
I think the Y!Live site has blossomed into something bigger than anyone anticipated and it has extended ramifications that are all positive. You stumbled on something good.
I think Y!Live probably benefits us more in the Deaf Community than in hearing community because we’re able to chat in ASL and communicate easily. If hearing people use it with all the microphones on, it would be hard for them to follow with all the sounds jumbled together from everyone’s voices.
It represents an interesting form of advancing to the next level of social networking.
Another benefit, it allows hearing people to look into our world as if through an aquarium to see how we interact and communicate with each other. More effectively to see how we interact than a vlog which only shows one person.
There’s already another benefit. I have been working on webcam compatibility in the Linux world. And I invited some developers to take a quick peek into Y!Live and they understood far better now that webcams aren’t just a cool gadget to be used by some, but a true necessity to be used by many. It motivated them to continue their work on developing better webcam services out there. And your experiment was only launched 4 days ago!
Bryen
February 19th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Hello,
Everyone does make a mistake! It’s part of life.
I agree with White Ghost’s comment.
Take care.
Cheers,
Ms. Katrina