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Of course these tyrants of the chat room have given birth to what I have coined the "@"-HEAD pronounced "AT HEAD" (A.K.A. Op-aholic and @-Noser), truly the absolute lowest form of life on any chat server. These small-minded devotees are the perfect complement for the totalitarian room host that has a god complex. The "@"-Head can be spotted a mile away: in established rooms on any chat server they will be seen proudly strutting their "@" all over the room as if to say "Don't screw with me I have power!" While at the same time giving a boost to the ego of the room owner. Also they are the ones that no matter what room they are seen in they have to have an "@" displayed before their nick, it almost seems like a compulsion that only dominance of the room can diminish. As if they would virtually die (pun INTENDED) without that most sought after Administrator status. Then of course there are those too that have absolutely no sense of humor what so ever. Dejected persons that are so anal retentive that one would think that they were toilet trained at gunpoint. Yes, those that do not enjoy a good joke because they are pissed off not merely because they had it so bad, also for the reason that so many others had it so good. Not unlike the former smoker that becomes the militant non-smoker since quitting because they can't endure to see anyone else enjoy a cigarette. When these individuals are the ruling class in a chat room, it is "You MUST stay on the topic of discussion!" Making a joke in one of these rooms can just about guarantee you a trip to the computer-generated dungeon of solitary confinement.

Additionally, in recent years more and more servers have offered "Voice Chat". I will not go into to much detail about voice chat now, you will just have to wait for my piece on voice chat to hear more about that. Nevertheless I will bring up two things about voice chatting now. The first is that some DSL Dictator will generally put a three minute time limit on each person to give everyone an equal chance. You can have faith in the fact that this rule is stringently imposed, well that is if you do not have the "@" in front of your name. Evidently this rule is null and void for those that are have that little symbol, many of them feel that they must articulate a twenty minute reply for every three minutes said. Have three or four "@" in the room and you will be lucky if you get you three minutes in two hours. Naturally by the time you do get to speak, it's a

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