stoner? crack head? on chat

[depechemodefan]

Here is a chat session I had with a person who uses our library reference chat service:

Question: Chat Transcript: help
Hxxxxxx PL : Note: Patron's screen name: mimi
mimi: is anyone thereif u r could u plesse help me please?
HxxxxxxPL : Librarian 'Hxxxxxx PL dmfan' has joined the session.
mimi: r u there
Hxxxxxx PL : Hello and welcome. My name is DMfan and I am a librarian in Hxxxxxx. Our libraries share this chat service. Please let me read your question.
Hxxxxxx PL : what is your question?
mimi: did u ever read the weird schoool
Hxxxxxx PL : no, never read the weird school.
mimi: or the boxcar childre
Houston PL : no, I havn't read the boxcar children
mimi: did u ever read the weird schoool
mimi: but diid any of ur friends read or did u ever hear aout this book yes or no? r u there
mimi: is anyone there
Hxxxxxx PL : I already answered your question about the weird school.
mimi: please say ur there because i was waiting a long time
Hxxxxxx PL : are you reading my replies?
mimi: what did u say i forgot
mimi: yes
Hxxxxxx PL : Luckily chat keeps the replies for you to read.
Hxxxxxx PL : Noneo f my firends have read the weird chool or boxcar children, but do you have a quesion about any of those books?
mimi: i dont see it
mimi: yes
mimi: r u there
Hxxxxxx PL : what is your question about either book?
mimi: hello r u there
mimi: i need to write a book report on them
Hxxxxxx PL : ok
mimi: i dont have schhool
Hxxxxxx PL : did you read either books?
mimi: dont woorry att aaalll
mimi: yes
mimi: i did
mimi: r u there
Hxxxxxx PL : so what is the book report about?
mimi: yes or no sorry for asking alot
Hxxxxxx PL : what do you mean "I dont have schhool"? you mean you are home schooled or you meant to type something else?
mimi: none
mimi: i need a book report
mimi: im an orphan
Hxxxxxx PL : what is the book report about? are you told to write the plot? Or what did you think about the story?
mimi: r u there
mimi: the plot
mimi: r u there
mimi: the plot
mimi: i am nan orphan
mimi: this is how i started


Finally I told the person that a book report is beyound the scope of our services. But I can't tell if it's a child thinking it's funny to chat that way, or a child who is indictative of the school systems in the US, or some crack head who just is goofing off.

[Squeaksmyalias]

Can I vote all of the above?
*hands over chocolates and shiny things*

[Cookie]

I get grownups like that in chat all the time. The constand "r u there" makes me want to scream and tear something.

[AtDIelement]

r u guys there?

*ducks*

I'm going with all of the above as well.

[Andara Bledin]

I vote a product of 4chan or SA, personally.

^-.-^

[Stryker One]

Turing test.

[bainsidhe]

I would go through soooo many keyboards if I had to respond to live chats like that. Most office supplies can sub for a sledgehammer.

[Stryker One]

Turing test.

[ZedOmega]

Unfortunately, that kind of behavior is spreading like the plague right now. Anyone on an MMO with a public chat can tell you that. Case in point: I've been playing Uncharted Waters Online lately, and on the channel where new players are supposed to be asking for help on the game, we're instead alternating between that, people repeating questions three or seventeen times in the space of fifteen seconds, or idiots trolling.

[Andara Bledin]

In MMOs, I routinely mock anyone who can't form a coherent sentence.

^-.-^

[depechemodefan]

I forgot this chat I had earlier in the hour. I just don't know why people can't find information on MLK, Jr.

Chat Transcript: who was involed in the boy cott

Librarian 1:
10:58:04 2011/01/27 (GMT-6) Note: Patron's screen name: cyleigh
Librarian 1:
Librarian 'Hxxxxxx PL dmfan' has joined the session.
Librarian 1:
Hello and welcome. My name is dmfan and I am a librarian in Hxxxxxx. Our libraries share this chat service. Please let me read your question.
Librarian 1: Which boycott?
Patron: hi im cyleigh and i am learning about martin luther king jr and what he has done
Librarian 1: ok. Which boycott you had in mind?
Patron:
um
Patron: sry hold on im checking
Librarian 1: go here, http://www.elm4you.org/ and select biographies.
Librarian 1: try that, see if you can get info.
Patron: the bus and about the hole thing
Patron: i mean about the segration lawa
Patron: i mean laws
Librarian 1: did you try the link I gave you?
Patron: yes i am already there
Patron: i looked but nothing seem to hep me
Librarian 1: what do you mean, nothing seem to help (you)?
Librarian 1: 11:06:10 2011/01/27 (GMT-6) you got into biographies?
Patron: like im reading it and i aready
new all of this
Librarian 1: what else did you try?
Patron: i looked but nothing seem to hep me
Librarian 1: Did you try the Social Science Databases?
Patron: i have got into general and all of them i was going to ask you about who, what, when where why =and inportant
Patron: it didnt help me at a
ll
Librarian 1: your question is too general. I understand that your topic is Martin Luther King, Jr and bus boycott, but also you are mentioning segregation, which is very general.
Patron: it didnt help me at a
ll
Librarian 1: so the social sciences database should help you with the segregation question.
Patron: well than good bye i am going to watch a movie and u didnt he
lp me at all by
Patron: Patron ended chat session.
Librarian 1: here's a link to wikipedia
Librarian 1:
11:13:00 2011/01/27 (GMT-6) Note: Set Resolution: Answered

[Sapphire Silk]

Sooooo . . . .

Both these patrons wanted you to do their homework for them, then complained when you wouldn't?

Sucks to be them.

[Kristev]

I think I'll steal the name, Cyliegh. But the rest of that was completely stupid.

[depechemodefan]

I think I'll steal the name, Cyliegh. But the rest of that was completely stupid.

Actually, I changed the names. For Cyliegh, I changed the first letter, which was "K".