mccPOLL: We are having a conversation. I mention a previous discussion which I say took place "in vent". Would you understand what I meant by this?
Yes
Mmmmmaybe
No
Poll ended at .
I would also be very curious for age bracket crosstabs on this one, but of course Discord has no such feature.
This is referring to Ventrilo. I use "vent" as a generic term for group chat, even though I never really used Ventrilo as far as I remember. "Vent" is the plural conjugation of "Skype"
Erin@mcc I understood Ventrilo but not as a generic term. interesting
Tathar is dragons! (public)@ChateauErin @mcc Same. To me, the generic term is VC.
Steffo (moving)@mcc oh! i forgot that existed, everybody i knew at the time always used teamspeak, mumble or skype, nobody ever used ventrilo
2WaterGuns@mcc As others probably said, I interpreted this as "my vent channel in Discord" rather than Ventrilo.
GFD@mcc ah, i had answered “yes”, but i thought what you meant was a “# vent” channel in e.g. a Discord server
Klara in the hidden land
Nogweii@mcc I wasn't sure if you were referring to that, so I said Maybe. But after reading your explanation, I would have said Yes.
Erika (and co-conspirators)@mcc I was a Ventrilo kid back in the day, but I haven't thought about it in so long that I assumed "in vent" was similar to "in jest", as in "I said this as part of a venting session"
Farce Majeure@mcc well, I voted maybe and the answer was no.
PunnO)))@mcc I'm 44 and know what you mean, but have never used it. I only know because of the Duke Nukem soundboard pranks which took place there.
Kojack 🦎
Jason Petersen (he)@mcc 38 and yes
Mister Dave
Spindley Q Frog@mcc 42. Never actually used Ventrilo but I would have if I could have self-hosted a server on my Linode. Instead, Glorious Trainwrecks had an official self-hosted Mumble server for a while. (It... never saw much use.)
Greg Titus@mcc 51yo, and yes, this is the terminology my DotA and WoW groups all used to mean "in voice" (whether or not the particular software was actually Ventrilo, which it usually but not always was) as opposed to in text.
Nicole@mcc 26 and i said "mmmmaybe" because I thought "in vent" might be "while venting"
salt@mcc 29, was reasonably confident of what you meant and voted "Yes", but probably would have done a double take in normal conversation. Have not personally used ventrilo myself.
@mcc just to make sure, you were not playing among us, you were venting verbally, right?
@steffo This is not referring to the ability to enter a diagetically physical duct vent in Among Us.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@mcc basshunter just started playing in my head
fraggLe!@gsuberland @mcc *thousand yard CODEC stare*
I was once upon a time a minor contributor to Mumble, and joined a WoW PUG in like 2014 I think and they made everyone use vent and it was *dreadful*, like absolute hot liquid dogshit in my ears, utterly offensive.
halcy 
@gsuberland @fwaggle @mcc you’ll be glad to hear that in terms of hardware, in 2024, absolutely nothing has changed all computers still have absolutely dogshit microphones (now wireless! so you also get some unpleasantly low sample rates plus an absolutely dogshit codec *before it even reaches the computer*), we’ve just trained the computer to mostly paper over this fact
@gsuberland @fwaggle @mcc oh also since they’re now on laptops if they’re not wireless, they are also right next to a fan, which doesn’t seem loud to your ears but to the microphone? Sure is!
@mcc but were we playing dota at the time
Doofus Canadensis
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@mcc Ĉu ekzistas kanalo nomita vent ?
HeinousTugboat@mcc at least you weren't mumbling.
Bee O'Problem 
@mcc the other reference I was going to make was "that's classified" but I think that might actually be too niche even for the majority of people who know what vent is
@mcc although, perhaps... belt, leather belt 🎵
aeva@mcc I'm unfamiliar with the term but it sounds self explanatory. I assume it refers to something said while venting?
@mcc like "in anger" but much less agitated
Farbs
Jima 
Moss@mcc ventrillo?
Neia masks@mcc but only because of Basshunter
bob@mcc I used teamspeak back in the day so I probably would have said "in TS"
Jack@mcc Over 30, would assume a "vent chat" as are fairly common these days... unless I am talking to someone of a similar age to me and contextually the discussion took place some years ago.
Then I'd assume it happened in Ventrilo, lol.
Then I'd assume it happened in Ventrilo, lol.
Luke (Shiv)@mcc Ventrilo [30-39]
Rae@mcc Ventrillo?
Ellie@mcc I used ventrillo but certainly never called it "vent". 41.
nebunez 
Emily Fox 
@mcc I was wrong then. I figured it was about a small rant/vent made while emotions were high.
Kyle Rose@mcc took me a little bit
Morten@mcc Vent sounds like it should be the name of a city in Flemish Belgium.
`Da Elf
turmoni@mcc it took me a while and once wrong interpretation (I thought it might perhaps mean something you said whilst venting), but I got there. I think never having used Ventrilo or heard that abbreviation both played a part (I used TeamSpeak then moved over to Mumble)
Am 37
Static@mcc this one takes me back but, whew, a verbal shorthand i'll always know
eyajpng@mcc i assume it went something like “come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…”