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lee said:
CHAT ROOMS are infected with Bots, quite annoying that one using them to continuely to send out messages of a Sexual nature with a complimentary site URL link. From my experience being logged in Yahoo Chat rooms many years ago, you would click on a Hyperling in the Room, or sent one by a Robot which when excuted would infact on many occasions would be on some vay bad site, or worse still get a Trojan. In those days, you did not know this and you find you Windows System would fail. There was know way you could run your PC again unless, you reinstalled your Operating System and son on. However, if we look at just that real Yahoo profiles used to Add a bit of spice to a room, providing they just tryiong to get a Site noticed by others in a room then thsi really is not so bad – all said than done its Free for the public to use, and not monitored so what do you expect. Unfortunately, Yahoo has Ads everwhere, and that is quite annoying too.
If we now look at the captcha code which we have to use each time we enter in any room, or the same room, we’re in around 2-hours, then you’re logged out. I’m sure Yahoo have lost many 1000’s of members, in addtion, losing popularity for having type a code each time ot use a Chat Room.
# 22 September 2008 at 1:56 am

Mike said:
Dude I totally agree, are they even doing anything? I’m so tired of bots filling up my screen with boxes and in the chat rooms. it is so stupid and annoying. Is yahoo even listening or do they not care?
# 1 October 2008 at 3:19 am

The_Cell said:
Its crazy how does the bots get around the captcha code ??
# 20 October 2008 at 10:34 pm

whodat said:
They don’t. I’ve seen the codes and they are anything but random. Any script kiddie would figure that out in a few minutes. Yahoo is being cheap about their security, because they are looking for a ‘white knight’ right now, to save them from the clutches of Microsoft. They will pull it together if they get with AOL. That place is the only other one with more problems.
# 31 October 2008 at 10:18 am

Vicki said:
At least you can get in the chatrooms
# 29 December 2008 at 7:09 am

greeeat said:
my chat history
(12:50:25) shelley_myers611: im good thnx, what are you up to?
(12:50:37) qwertyshy: chatting with you
(12:50:42) shelley_myers611: i’m always up for chat, whats up?
(12:50:50) qwertyshy: youre my friend
(12:50:52) shelley_myers611: of course
(12:51:01) qwertyshy: are you a bot
(12:51:11) shelley_myers611: well i have a cam site like i guess most bots would but mine is actually real
(12:51:34) qwertyshy: bots rock,cams suck
(12:51:45) shelley_myers611: no guy im not a bot.. i have a cam site but im actually a real chick
(12:52:13) qwertyshy: what’s 4+4
(12:52:15) shelley_myers611: cool
(12:52:27) qwertyshy: you are a bot!!
(12:52:35) shelley_myers611: if i were i wouldnt be able to talk to you like this
(12:53:17) qwertyshy: Ok proove it
(12:53:18) shelley_myers611: brb
(12:53:20) shelley_myers611: ill be back on in a few
(12:53:54) shelley_myers611: hey still there? im going to chat on my cam site *link* come over there, k?
(12:59:10) qwertyshy: no
# 26 January 2009 at 7:38 am

wc_wickedclown said:
and dont forget about the arabs yelling HELLO HELLO HELLO ON THE MIC
asking us do we speak arabic omfg welcome to yahell chat
# 7 February 2009 at 4:30 am

Mia said:
Why don’t Yahoo just close the chat rooms and puts them out of their misery?
Once thriving chat community was replaced by pornographic websites and with third world country youngsters trying to scam the old perverts out of money and prostituting themselves in hope for a green card.
I truly believe Yahoo’s intention to expand to those countries is the reason they shut their eyes to the problem. As long the chat rooms are full, the numbers reported back to the stockholders board room are high…that’s all what they care about.
It is a disgrace..
The name Yahoo is tarnished forever.
# 8 February 2009 at 11:59 am

Chris said:
I havent used the chatrooms for a long long time(2yrs) because of bots and to my horror its worse then ever infact disgusting and offensive for those of us that just want to chat with our friends. i certainly dont want to be bombarded with porn sites and others sending their cams. there are those of us that are descent people, we are not all pimps and hookers which Yahoo seems to like in their rooms. it doesent say much for keeping the rooms safe or from keeping them safe from children which i know do use them despite of Yahoo’s so called security. Yahoo must be getting paid large amounts to have all this low life on here. your welcome to join the low life Yahoo im gone.
# 20 February 2009 at 6:00 am

LJ said:
yup … well i dont think yahoo cares or they wud have done sumthaang about it long tyme ago=P
and ya i agree with chris they must be getting paid for all this all i can say is yahoo is the lamest instant messanger .
peace out ^ ^
# 11 March 2009 at 5:12 am

Mark said:
Yahoo Chat has become a cesspool and bots are just one part of the problem. I use a different chat program, MagChat… no bots & some really innovative features.
Spread the love
# 21 March 2009 at 1:09 pm

Anuk said:
I think this is on going problem. I found some article on Krify dot com that explained on how to prevent yahoo bots.
# 5 April 2009 at 2:22 pm

Reaper2k3 said:
Captcha didn’t stop bots from registering, I don’t know what genius thought it would stop them from joining rooms.
# 9 April 2009 at 7:31 am

Fed up said:
Didn’t Yahoo remove the “porn rooms” due to pedophiles filling them up? Well, what is the difference of 1000’s of bots filling them up now? Yahoo is sex oriented and apparently approves this sort of behavior in ALL their rooms. Every single chat room has porn bots and chat whores, not to mention the annoying arabic/indian/paki/egyptian horn dogs pming us with asl and f or m, looking for sexy “femal” crap. Yahoo has hit skid row.
# 13 April 2009 at 4:09 am

bangbang said:
those bots are actually individuals with multiple IDs. Its a big business here in asia and I know 1 here in the philippines thats being run by an american. they hire young people who will chat and post like girls to invite potential clients to visit some porn sites and eventually sign up for a membership and those young people earn money by commission based on how many guys they get to sign up at the porn site.
# 30 April 2009 at 2:37 pm

Chad said:
I have been trying to talk on a all of the yahoo chat rooms and all I get is Bots and more bots if I wonted to talk to a bot I would just talk to my computer and also those ads is there no real people in chat rooms any more. it S U C K S
# 10 May 2009 at 10:47 am

Grover said:
What they should do is have admin in certain rooms and kick all bots out. They did have some type of admin back in the mid 90’s even if you cursed or was rude in the room they would warn you. They need several workers for admin and that would fix lots of those problems. Until then we will always get bots.
# 22 May 2009 at 2:09 am

Phil said:
Sex bots drove most of the people away. More bots than ever before. With the hard economic times, they’re spamming people so bad, being there is a waste of time.
It used to be a pretty good chat community. Now it’s a worthless waste land. If you leave your I.M.’s on you get spammed worse than ever before.
Problem is, I haven’t,as yet, found anything to replace it. In yahoo messenger, and all the other ones,men out number ladies by approximately 40 to 1. It didn’t use to be that way.
In closing, I must say that you’ll have a better experience talking to yourself, than you would going on yahoo messenger.
# 27 May 2009 at 3:59 am

Amber said:
It seems pointless to have to pass a CAPTCHA test, only to enter a room full of bots and annoying Arabs and Indians. The “Admin” itself is a bot, and if you want anything done, you have to fill out a form to report the abuse. The most convenient thing to do is ignore them. It’s especially bad if they’re the ONLY ones in the room.
# 29 May 2009 at 10:22 am

XiaoLin said:
The chat rooms are becoming more and more infested with bots, racists, morons and cam camjerkers. I am soon going to give up on yahoo, it is becoming ever more difficult to find nice people among a sea of imbeciles.
# 2 June 2009 at 5:55 am

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