Suggestion: Chat room improvements

Question

• Whenever someone says you’re name, their comment gets highlighted
• Be able to delete your comments. Sometimes I accidentally paste random things I copied earlier and it’s a real eyesore
• Give the Chat Room a mascot. (Chatot. I stole this idea from SYL btw)
• Make the most active users on chat be able to ban/kick users. Not become a mod or anything, more like just people that can enforce the rules, because mods/editors/experts are almost never on chat. [(Except PX, hellfire taco, and maybe even sumwun (?)]
• Be able to make a status message next to your name instead of “idle” or just nothing. (Ex. Brb, hi, or a time and date for the next time they’ll be on)

That’s about it please tell me one by one why these are all terrible ideas.

EDIT: Seems like number 2 and 4 were bad ideas. Here's new ones:
- Block users on chat (you don't see their messages anymore. They don't get banned or anything, though. Mainly just for spammers, and a simaler idea to #4)
- When you type :) it changes into a smiley face icon (like on Discord)
- You can favorite people's comments, and the comments you favorited can be seen on your wall
- You can "friend" users
- You can have a seperate name on Chat then on Database. Your database name will be in parenthasees next to your name. Ex. Pewdify (EvilTwinNeedle) You now have nickname fields, and can change both during name changing season. Either name will be highlighted when spoken by a different user. (Just on your screen, though.)
- Be able to DM people. So, ATM if user you'd like to talk to is offline, you have to post on their wall, which is problematic because a.) People don't check their wall that often b.) You can only post on walls a limited number of times per hour and c.) Some users disallowed new posts on their wall (like FlappersFlappers). You'll get a notification when you log back in saying "SeeYaLater messaged: Hi is you going whit udder ppl 2 da playce?" or something like that. OK that message was a troll please don't be offended SYL.

Please tell me why these ideas are 100% awful and why you're just barely stopping yourself from downvoting

Comments

I probably wouldn't be able to make good use of any kicking powers. The chat is always dead when I'm on it.

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lol I feel like I would accidentally kick myself lol

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I mean, kicking powers are a bit arbitrary; anyone who has been on chat for a while? what if a spammer stays there 8 hours?

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All of these are fine, except for the thing about deleting posts and allowing active users to kick. I'm positive that both would be abused.

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Whenever sumwun says your name.
                I've never been on chat at the same time as him... I can't see a use for this.

                this is a coding issue. No clue about it, therefore I have no valuable opinion on it.

Deleting your own comments.
                I think HT is right, It would be abused, but I want to know if it would matter. If people post stupid stuff then immediately delete it, it doesn't affect anyone. Anyways, anyone in chat at that time could report it.

Give chat room a mascot 2018
                yes. Honestly tho, I'm kinda surprised nobody has mentioned the Whismur line yet. We could probably put a tiny picture of Whismur for a dead or near-dead chat (normal right now), Loudred for average or above, and Exploud for a really busy chat.


Active users, ban/kick powers.
                    I'm on chat a fair bit. I would be in line for that very same power, if they were handing it out. Tbh, I don't see a need for it.

Status message next to username.
                    another coding thing. No comment.

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GT:Well after reviewing your papers Mr.Weedle
ET:Uh it's Needle sir
GT:Ah yes thats right Tweedle
ET:Nevermind
GT:what was that?
ET:Nothing continue
GT:Ah yes after reviewing your papers Mr.Caterpie we have found that on your first order of business "Whenever someone says you’re name, their comment gets highlighted" We love it!We will get right on it! wave are magic wands real quick and bam! done unless of course Someone doesn't want to type out someone else's ridiculously long name. Then that's a waste of time but surely EVERYBODY will do that!
ET:Well you don't have to be snarky about it...
Gt:Sir I assure you I am not a Sharpedo now lets continue on with this second order of business...
ET:(oh my god...)

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Lol it’s times like these that make me wish I could like comments :)

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Active doesn't mean responsible. The three of us you mentioned arguably are responsible enough but it sets a bad precedent. If PM wanted to give us the ability to kick he'd promote us (we need more editors once Switch hype kicks in imo so hopefully that gets brought up again but I digress).

also deleting messages has already been said that's it's not happening.

the other two suggestions seem good though.

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Higlight if your name is said-
Yeah! I feel this is ok.

Ban powers-
No, no, no! Probs hand-picked people who are pretty active in chat would be good though......

Give the Chatroom a Mascot-
Oh hell yeah!
OrangeWigMan's answer: Oh hell no! Okay that would be pretty fun but I think that is really, but really hard to code.

Able to have a status name-
Yeah! This would be really cool!

These things are all good with some other words with it.

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Yeah. I know that multiple people, including myself, have said that allowing active members to kick would be a bad idea, but I'd like to remind people that there are, occasionally, new, extremely annoying users who like to come on and stay for MONTHS. Allowing these people to kick would be a very poor choice.

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lol glad you liked my skit ET had fun making it!

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There's really no reason to be able to "friend" users. What would it do?
Favoriting people posts also seems like it would be useless. What would the point of it be? If something is funny, just screenshot it and save it.
As for the suggestion for the smiley face, there's not really a downside to it, but there's really no upside. This site doesn't have emojis, and you can't even use emojis in Chat.

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Thank you for your feedback! I disagree with you on the no point in friending people, but other than that I agree with you I'll edit them out later I'm a bit busy ATM

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But what would friending do?

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Favoriting users is essentially the same thing (or can be used for it) :P
DM may or may not be good, IDK about stuff like that.

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because Chatot is annoying, in the PU tier, and only good for breeding in Echoed Voice

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... you mean Boomburst right

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Lol why me :P

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I just want to see Gravatars tbh :P

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Someone hid my answer but it doesn't say who

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That’s what happens when we click ‘reject’. It’s because people used to get really upset at whoever’s name showed up on their post.
I did this because the answer doesn’t contribute much -- it’s just a list of people.