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.