Shoutbox

Maybe some sort of timer then, say... 5 seconds or so, just so that if it was a quick message then it's possible to view it if really needed. I know there's a plugin that closes conversations every 30 seconds I think, I'm not sure how that works but to me I only want it to work when the conversation is closed...Not all the time which is what I assume, that plugin does. Some sort of timeout would end the problem of short messages? Not sure..