When in the bingo chat rooms you will often find a chat host posting Lucky Dust or a Good Luck Fairy by way of a macro but often these can take up a lot of space, which is often limited, and impede on any conversations that are taking place. It used to be that a chat room was the place to share in a bit of banter with your fellow roomies but often it would seem that the rooms are now simply filled with “1tg, 2tg, 3tg, wtg, gl, and ty” rather than actual chat.
Has this come about because of the difficulty in following a conversation when a host, rather than actually chatting, simply posts a macro? Do you find these worthwhile or just an annoyance?
What is a macro anyway? The dictionary definition is “A single instruction that expands automatically into a set of instructions.” A chat host will often have a program that they input their macro into and then one key stroke will place said macro into the chat room.
The kind of thing you might see is:
$ $ $
$. ; : ; ,$
$-. ‘. ; : ; ,` ,-$
$-. ‘-. ‘. ; : ; ,` ,-` ,-$
“-. ‘-. ‘. ; : ; ,` ,-` ,-”
$–. ‘”-. ‘-.’ ‘ `.-` ,-“` ,–$
‘”–. ‘”-. … ,-“` ,–“`
‘”–. .:::::. ,–“`
*~*~LUCKY DUST EXPLOSION~*~*
LUCKY DUST FOR
-:¦:- R -:¦:-
-:¦:-¸..O ´¨¨)) -:¦:-
-:¦:-¸. .•°O´ .•´¨¨)) -:¦:-
-:¦: -((¸¸.•¸M ..•´ -:¦:-
-:¦:-*..•° -:¸.. I¦ :- * -:
-:¦:-¸.•´¨¨)) .•E:¦:-
-: ¦ :- °•..* -*..•S:¦:-:-
As you can see they take up a number of lines when posted in the chat room so you may have asked the host a question or be mid-conversation with another player when the macro is posted and before you know it, what you have said has disappeared from the screen.
Add in the number of players who simply post how many numbers to bingo they need, and the chat room soon loses the social aspect simply because it is impossible to follow a conversation.
In our opinion bingo chat macros are a waste of space and should be banned. Let’s get the social aspect of bingo that you would find at your local club back into the online bingo chat rooms by losing the macros!
What do you think?
