This is almost my first chat. Not familiar with this place.

this is probably my 2nd chat in 7 yrs on Stack Exchange

Hi @GabrielStaples. First off, an apology: I should practice what I teach and not engage in long conversations in comments. I was just impressed by Plumo's answer and was taken aback when I read your comments which all seemed like "this is wrong" and " do this better" without showing any thanks. So I expressed myself badly, and left you a passive-aggressive comment. This is not cool and I should know better, so my apologies for that too.

ok cool; thanks

I was impressed with the answer too

@GabrielStaples Yeah, sorry, I just didn't want to continue in the comments. The main thing I wanted to say is sorry, I overreacted there and made a mountain out of a molehill.

I'll be clearing out the comments (mine and yours answering mine) now. And yeah, sorry for jumping down your throat a little.

ok sounds fine

How did you create this chat, by the way?

also, I really didn't see my responses as complaints.

Note sure if you saw my last 2 comments?

Also, for future reference, @GabrielStaples, thanking with the upvote button is indeed much better than leaving a thank you comment! It's just that (I, personally, not necessarily the community or the site) feel that if you do leave a comment, adding a thanks is nice.

That being said, I know I'm a little different than many other people in how I interpret things

@GabrielStaples Fair enough. As I said, I basically overreacted here. I would have liked a "Hey, thanks for this, but..." is all. But sure, everyone can have different views on things like that.

@GabrielStaples By visiting your chat profile and clicking on the "create a new room with this user" button.

interesting. Can I start chats with people? Or just moderators can do it?

No, I think all users can do it.

Although I've been a mod for a while now, so I might be misremembering.

Also, my reputation shown here must be my total combined across all Stack Exchange sites?

yep

And are chats saved?

They all (except SO and Meta-SE) share the same chat server so rep here is the sum of all Stack Exchange sites.

and publicly viewable?

yes, chats are saved and publicly viewable (with some exceptions: mods can create private ones).

Rooms are eventually deleted, but I think the transcript will always be visible.

interesting. I'll try to remember to think more about the human aspect of conversation and begin with a thanks next time.

@GabrielStaples And that's all I could ever ask of you, thanks! :)

Here's my take on communication: Communicating with humans is one of the most complicated, discouraging, enigmatic processes I have ever endeavored to undertake. I speak English far better than I speak, write or code any computer programming language. Yet, I think communicating with a human is far harder than communicating with any computer.

gabrielstaples.com/human-communication

^^ full article in the link

heh, you're not wrong. Not wrong at all.

Ah, by the way, about deleted rooms: yes you can still see the transcripts but only if you have at least 10krep.

I see. Thanks.

Anyway, thanks for taking all this so well despite my initial clumsiness. See you around the site, I hope! :)

You're welcome. Sounds good. See you around.