I KNOW many of you have probably dealt with this, yet I couldn't seem to find a thread...
This has happened to me numerous times but it's a really sticky situation right now and I'm not sure how to approach this. It seems to happen almost cyclicly in the 4 years I've been camming. I get a good group of regulars (usually during a slow point during the year of course) that hit it off in my chat room. They become room buddies, which I think is awesome BUT at some point it always turns into a frat party, and they start being boys with each other, taking over the chat and it absolutely KILLS the room.
It's one of the slowest pay periods of the season so money is really scarce and last night just absolutely killed it for me. They are all great guys - but they just take over and make it hard for new spenders to interact. We will be having a good time joking about something stupid but they just take over. They will get into it hard (which I get - they are having fun and I will admit I get sucked in sometimes so it's partially on me), but when a new spender comes in they just keep going and can't seem to remember that I am in there to make money and don't realize that they make it hard for others to interact when they take over.
Usually I will put them in a time out during busy season or just get rid of them completely if they are being completely ignorant of what they are doing but it is all of my long time regulars (and the only guys that are consistently spending) right now so it's a bad idea to get rid of them, I just CAN'T do it right now. Both of my Mods are involved too....
So, needless to say it's "touchy" because I would be fucked without them right now but they are taking over to the point where new spenders are getting ran off because the guys are straight up being stupid. I had one guy start tipping HARD and they wouldn't STFU and I HAVE to keep interacting with them because they are regulars, and the new guy just got annoyed (he's in there to jerk off and they are doing a comedy routine) and left. This happened TWICE last night.
Any ideas on how to handle this with kid gloves so I don't run off my income flow and piss them off (like I said great guys - they are ignorant of what they are doing) but get them to realize they need to calm the fuck down when I get spenders in there...... I guess my first thought is to start ignoring them when a new spender comes in but yet again, don't want to piss them off because they are my only consistent spenders right now.......
UGH.




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He says he's broke. Or worst yet. Just exits my chat room.



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