Am I missing something with Skype?

[Ed]

As you know, there is an “official” NakedExperiment Skype channel. Quite a few people (probably 3-5 per week) have found our community via Skype, but what I don’t understand is the 2-3 people per day who request permission to contact me (as is standard on Skype) and say “Hi” then, when I reply “Hi” never type another word to me. They are pretty much all male and mostly have avatar photos etc.

This happening occasionally, I could understand, but it’s the vast majority of contact I receive on Skype.

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[Diana]

I don’t know if you are ‘missing something’ other than the fact that Skype has really much been replaced by programs like discord as a video chat community building resource.

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[ptHarry]

I’m not a skype user, so I’ve no way of seeing what a user sees when they connect by skype.

But I think the problem may be that if something is thought to be a “chat”, they’re probably expecting to get a reply from a bot within seconds. Or they assume you have a hundred staff and one of them will answer within a minute. If they still don’t get a reply after that, they assume it’s out of order and don’t bother to come back later.

Anyway, just wondering: have you tried asking them a quick question instead of just saying Hi ? At least then if they do eventually come back later, they may choose to reply with something more than just another Hi.

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[Ed]

Skype has been particularly effective this week. It’s attracted 4 people to the community. I just hope most of them decide to stick around.

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[Ed]

This is still happening almost daily. So many people on Skype have blocked me it’s incredible.

I tried using Discord but I’m not going back. It’s awful.

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[Auxilia]

What didn’t you like about Discord?  It’s pretty much the norm in the online gaming community (although the voice comms are worse IMO than Teamspeak).

[Ed]

I found it unintuitive. The layout was confusing. It had many many options which seemed aimed at things I don’t do, and, on my phone, the notifications don’t work. I also got fed-up of the constant badgering to upgrade to a paid account. I’ve never heard of Teamspeak, I don’t use voice comms and I don’t really play computer games at all. The last thing I played was Oxygen Not Included a few years ago.

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