Chat room on the website

I would like to suggest to add a homeowner chat room in our HOA website.
I would understand that the publishing of comments could be oversee by the board to control polite language. However the chairman and sole person controling the chat is a board member and the board does not approve volunteer.
How can I have the chat room approved and the sharing of language control not on the sole hand of a board member.

I agree with Joe. You are asking for trouble, most of these type of HOA chat rooms just become a place to gripe, gossip and complain. False accusations come about without real facts.

Bernard H: Start your own web site. If your board is restricting open communication there probably is a reason. Call them on it.

Don,
I understnd where you are coming from but the issue here was a Chat site.
I think chat site breed discontent, I think site like this one breed knowledge.
Our board has seen fit to take a comments page off our web site. My feelings about that action is just because someone complains or vents on a comments site about the HOA, they (the Board) fail to understand that a lot can be resolved when people have different sides of the story. I even go so far as to suggest that complaining is a sign of a healthy association. But what do I know, just MHO

DonN,
I don't have anything agaist "Chat Rooms". It just reminds me of trying to close a tight business deak at a busy Starbucks, as opposed to a nice quiet face to face meeting looking across a desk. I would like to think the kind of conversation that goes on here is indicitive of the common sense of the posters. Some site fail miserably, some flourish with an open forum, and maybe it has some luck connected with the whole thing.
I do think that the conversation here requires a good deal of thoughtful consideration where a chat doesn't. Which means you have to be interested in the subject matter. Chat rooms are full of personal agendas.

Of course much credit goes to the moderateo and supporters of the site. The availability to be able to talk with a more qualifed person is a great draw, as seen from the numbers of entries. I can come on this site, be assured that whoever is posting is trying to help, even if I don't agree with the opinion. It may be that open forums are self regulating, but only if the folks posting are helping regulate, and the subject is interesting to those posting.

Don,
Sorry---you were not asking to set it up here. I apologize for the error.

I'm no expert about chat rooms, but it is apparent the name that some consider threatening, for a lot of reason, good and bad. So is life.
More to the point I can't say I consider all Talk (I like to say Talk) sites to be the same. We have elections in HOAs no one pays attention to and five years down the line we are in the caca. We pay no attention to how our Board operates for the most part and now we are saying the owners don't have the sense to tell good from bad. I contend we are more disinterested than coup oriented, and that's bad. You have a HOA web site with a comments section it in and the board spins like a dervish. If it is a HOA web site, don't put anything on it without crediting the author. It take two to argue, if the board wants to post on there an argue, more power to them. "Oh, you just don't know what we have to indure because we are on the Board." Look Boards, I can take whatever any owner dishes out. I have been yelled at, cussed out, slandered, belittled, ignored, and bullied, and come so very close to phyusical abuse, someone talking about me on the web site sure is not going to bother.

I also know we have a great source of talent and professionalism in our owners and no doubt in my mind the resources are there to run a tip top association, with me or without me. Lets drag some of this resource out of the woods, lets say to the Board, "Listen to me." We don't even have open Board meetings for God's sake and they go get bent of of shape because some equal endowed owner wants to rant a while. Give me a break!