How do I get into a conversation with others? How do I behave properly?

When entering a chatroom for the first time, you should bear in mind some things making it easier for you and the others having a pleasant chat:

After entering a room greet friendly and then keep an eye on what is happening. Do not type unruly right away as the other chatters might feel annoyed even if your "misbehaviour" is unintentional and out of ignorance; for example

constantly typing "i want to chat!", "who wants to chat with me?" or the like cuts no ice with the others and annoys them.
People are already chatting in the room. Read what the conversation is about and think about what useful contribution you could make. That is also a good possibility to get involved by the others. When you do not force yourself on the others, this will work out by itself.

typing text entirely in capital letters is interpreted as "shouting/screaming" and is found a nuisance etc.
Just type "normal" or only small letters, and when you really have to exceptionally shout for a necessary reason by typing capital letters nobody will object.

constantly clicking on the chat buttons without any perceptible reason disturbs the conversation heavily. Of course it is understandable that you want to try out the buttons, but if all the others did that as well, only the same emote messages would show up again and again but no more reasonable conversation.
So, do not try out all the buttons right away. Use them, in case they make sense in the conversation, and nobody will be annoyed with you anymore.

addressing other chatter in a private talk with expressions like "m/f - how old?" (means: "male/female - how old?") is no proper behaviour as well and is found a nuisance.
The best thing would be for you to ask your desired private talk partner, if you may open a private talk to him/her. Or greet him/her with a friendlich "hello :-)" and wait for the reaction. If the private talk is not answered, do not be angry or even call the other one names. Eventually you have contacted him/her and not the other way round.

descending other chatters unasked with the opening of a game is no proper style either.
Ask in the room resp. the private talk, if someone resp. the desired partner wants to play a game with you , and do not be angry, if not.

If you take this advice to heart as well as comply with the following rules, it should be no problem to get in touch with other chatters and feel at home in the community :-)

Rules for SPiN-administered rooms

The actual application of rules may depend on the tone in any given room; preferably first make sure with an operator what will be considered acceptable. Please, also observe the General Terms and Conditions of Spin Chat!

But generally you should comply with the following rules:

Be polite and respect everyone. Do not offend others with your language. Should another user attack you in such a way, ignore him. An operator will deal with him.

No scrolling/flooding/spamming. No pointless repetition of characters, of words or URLs. By the way, commercials are strictly forbidden.

No talk about sex, drugs, or weapons, etc. no cybersex! There could be children around. If you still have to talk about it, open a private talk.

No feuds! Fight it out privately (in a private talk) or in a room of your own.

No misuse of nicknames! Do not intentionally use other users' nicknames or distort them in any way.

No discrimination because of gender, political or religious views, age, etc.