stompkins Wrote:Why's it seem everyone is only looking towards the negativity of this...
I don't think we're being negative; we're being
realistic. You may think we're being negative, but I think that that may be because our opinions differ from yours.
Yes, we all realize that this could be of help to a lot of people. Not everyone feels that it would be beneficial, but some do. I will concede that point.
However, again, it's a matter of determining if the effort required to make this work is worth the benefit that people who use it would gain. Overall, it probably isn't. We would need to have people dedicated to making this work. If it's a server-side application rather than an addon, that would mean involving the staff (mostly likely Kretol as well). It would have to be coded and tested. The server would probably need to go down. We don't know what kind of impact the code would have on the server.
Overall, the benefit gained from people who would use it is very minimal -- especially since a number of people have posted alternatives to help deal with the underlying problem (it takes too long to reply?). A number of simple and eloquent solutions have already been posted.
And, Clovis mentioned the WoW IM addon. I believe that the conversations held there are in entirely different windows. Why not start using that? Since whispers are in entirely different windows, I believe that you can switch from typing in the textbox to a chat window without losing the content of your current emote or reply.
Check out the video to see what I mean.