Comments on: Bots are back in Yahoo Chat room

By: cor21cam

cor21cam — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:39:21 +0000

The Arabs in the rooms are giving themselves and their fellow countrymen a bad reputation by saying HELLO HELLO on the mic and PMing people. They need to read this post and stop doing that. Are Arab men that desperate for sex and for friendship?

By: inge thompson

inge thompson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:20:18 +0000

Yahoo obviously does not want female custom and does not want the responsibility of monitoring these rooms. Thank goodness there is the ignore button. Oh.. and as for the racist comments about the Indians.. I have found many of them to be well educated and delightful chatters.

By: Tarun Karan

Tarun Karan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:44:47 +0000

Hi all,
You r so rite…it was way back in 2000-01 when i was in school and introduced to this magical world of internet and the very first and hip thing to do was to go online. And of course India only knew one passage to the world i.e Yahoo.
Yahoo chat rooms especially the Indian ones were such a vibrant group of chatters…hordes of issues were discussed and loads of fun. Of course there were sex seekers but they r everywhere and at that time easily ignorable.
Girls were equally leading the change in rooms and it was a nice gender equality.

…… and now..huhh!!!

after a long gap i started logging in after job hours to find my beloved playground all encroached upon by these silly slumlords of porn, filth and pervertness.
Though saving grace is that still indian rooms were little bit in better positions than the western ones. we can still find some real persons thr. And then its Orkut and facebook the current hot n happening ones. Ther are starting a online chat rooms also which may become the next yahoo for youngsters.

I dont know why yahoo dont want to resurrect their once proud domain. Thats such a happening and buzzing place with instant connection. Hope yahoo gets its act in place. Yahoo was such a iconic name for us youngsters at our time. Wat a Fall!!!

Still i know that world cant go back again to paper and calls….so i am sure somebody will find another innovative idea to get connected.
Dont worry and B+.

Take care!!!

Rgrds, Tarun, Mumbai, India.

By: Herman

Herman — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:48:40 +0000

Hi, I had great fun with Yahoo Chat and with yahoo messenger some where between 2005 and 2008. I did meet a lot of people all over the world US , Canada , Australia etc that was before Yahoo just the code. I did use a free software program in the chatroom’s ho did help me to stop about 95 % of the bots and I did work very good. When the ad that code it was no fun any more so I did stop with the Yahoo Chat like many I think

But Yahoo Messenger dos have a vry big leak. At one time when I was buzzy to chat via Yahoo Messenger my pc did reboot and I did’t do that my self. So that most come from a hacker i’m alomost shure course I did see a ip adres in my firewall. I did send a abuse report to the host of the ipadres.

Now to day I did take a look to see in my Yahoo Mail and I have to change all sorts of new things becourse Yahoo says the are change it. I did send a feetback to Yahoo that I don’t like to use any thing from Yahoo any more

The Yahoo time is over

Greethings from Herman In Gent (Ghent) Belgium

By: Micaiah

Micaiah — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:14:57 +0000

Same story here as everyone else. Havent been on Yahoo chat in a long time,but used to go on there often and make a lot of friends. Was wondering why chat is no longer advertised on Yahoo’s homepage and found this thread. Obviously they are doing it on purpose. Sick shit the world has turned into.

By: dc

dc — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:14:59 +0000

I tried yahoo chat today after a long time. Must says it sucks big time. Every single id except for me was a “BOT”. Hav decided not to go to the chat room at all. Complete waste of your time. Also that you are putting your computer at high security risk.
Yahoo chat room is complete bullshit.
Cant believe that a big company like yahoo cannot fix this problem. Maybe they deliberately dont want to do it. Dont know for sure.

No yahoo chatrooms for me from now untill the bot problem is resolved.

By: Julio Brian

Julio Brian — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:54:33 +0000

It has become quite apparent that the “Bot” problem has never been resolved. What is the point of having a Chatroom up, when all you find are bots sending you to pornographic sites, pornographic profiles, and going to cam links, which you don’t even want to do. The reason why these bots have flourished, is because there are people who actually follow and enjoy these links!

It’s really annoying to be talking to someone who you think is a person, only to find them send you a link that you don’t even know after just 5 minutes of talking to them. Yahoo Chat used to be a fun place to be, it was my first exposure to chat rooms, and it was mostly clean. Now, a bunch of idiots decide to kill chat by putting all of their filth on chat. This makes the rest of the community suffer.

Now there is no point to me going on messenger, or chat. Most of my friends use live messenger now (MSN) and we are having so much fun! No bots, and if one does infiltrate, we can just delete the contact.

Yahoo! used to be my hero, but now they have sunk to all time lows. Can they please fix this problem so that us decent chatters may enjoy chatting oncemore, instead of being bombarded with worthless popups of bots that make no sense and waste our time?

That is all we ask…

Help…
Us…
Please…

(Shadow’s last Logs)

By: Alarm

Alarm — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:55:50 +0000

I think Yahoo should put the “create your own room” feature back in. The reason why bots are filling the chat rooms is because the room names are fixed, therefore the bot programs can target the stated amount of rooms. I remember the good old days of creating my own room with my favourite subject, and bots never came, also people would know what they’d expect to talk about before coming in.

Regarding Yahoo’s effort of solving the problem, I think they’re just too lazy and don’t find it economical to fix this problem. They have even cut advertising on the bottom of the chat room as well. I think the days of online chatting is numbered and we will have to go out and meet real people like the old times, or even making penpals through newspaper and magazine. People always said the third world war is fought with stones, and I believe it (I even saved a rather large ‘weapon’ at home just in case).

By: Gooddayshgone

Gooddayshgone — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:00:39 +0000

When i first came to use the internet Yahoo was where i met new people and friends from school, hung out, chatted, had fun. Haven’t used it in years, and the other day i was bored and thought ‘hey… why not go on yahoo chat..?’ well you can guess where that got me. needless to say it led me to this thread, and i’ve got to say, im sad for the demise of the once great yahoo. well, maybe now they’ve signed a big pay-day with microsoft last week they can be bothered to send some one from support down to look at it, shake their head, stick the gun under poor chats head and pull the merciful trigger.

By: IHateYahoo

IHateYahoo — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:35:50 +0000

Yahoo Chat is dead to be sure. It’s disgusting they let it degenerate into a cesspool. It used to be great fun with actual people far outnumbering bots and scammers. Now it’s very easy to find yourself in a room of a dozen or more “chatters” and you’re the only non bot!!

I have no pity for Yahoo and hope they become but a memory of what once was but certainly is no more. They’ve been superseded by bigger, better companies (read Google).