Is Yahoo Chat Listening

By Ashish Mohta

Yahoo Chat rooms had been famous for years for having filled with 80% of bots beating out the human population there. Soon they came up with not so good idea of setting up a capthca check when a users request to join the chat rooms. Well it served for a while but then again it was seen by many users that bots are still able to access to free yahoo chat rooms or as we say free online yahoo chat. I got this first comment telling me about bots access to chat rooms

LC |

bots can still go in. that verification thing is useless.

The worst scenarios of Capthca Checks are:

  • Every time you change rooms you have to do a captcha check. Now that’s really stupid , would you use gmail if you have to signin everytime ?
  • Users are not able to login to chat rooms even if they verify capthca correctly. Here are some messages which I received as comments on my Yahoo Cpatcha posts and I still get it.
  • Bots are everywhere in chat rooms now

prince |

when I say I can’t get through, I mean if I get to the chatroom
and I click on the link ,to get to the security check, nothing happen
so I can not enter the chatroom

Fedup with Verification |

this code verification is an useless thing especially for people like me who frequently change chat rooms.first of all when we click the verification link it takes atleast 5 seconds for the browser to open the link[sometimes when the processor is busy the screen freezes].

when U don’t type the code within 5 minutes or something U are not taken to chat room,instead it gives some error message when U try to verify it after 5 minutes

This is an irritating process indeed.Yahoo really needs to find a way to control the bots on the server side not on the user side.Give the users the liberty to chat without interruptions[Bots R even better than this verification process which always interupts]

geraldine c domingo |

today yahoo is too hard to enter chat rooms what’s happening? hope U could fix the crap…even how many times I click the captcha.cha on the screen it wont really work,i could not really enter its getting hard for us

I would like to ask the yahoo messenger blog :

Do you have a solution for all these problems users are facing ? I know you are aware of it but we would like to hear from you if you are doing something ? Is yahoo chat room going to be just for bots or Humans will get an entry . We all hope to hear from you


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    • Brown Baron, November 22, 2007:

      Wow that’s crazy. Maybe they should create specific channels for bots heh. I don’t understand why they made it so difficult. They need to test things more before implementing.

    • Mig, November 22, 2007:

      Well, Yahoo! has many issues - the ones you mentioned are just some of them. I’ve been sending them feedback many times and got no answer. Hope you do better.

    • Ashish Mohta, November 25, 2007:

      @Mig: I hope they listen

      @Brown: its way beyond that. Even I dont get how come its difficult for them to stop or they just dont do it

    • Unknown Singer, January 27, 2008:

      Well please inform me about its solution as soon as possible.

      waiting

      Unknown Singer !

    • Tisha, April 1, 2008:

      I don’t get Yahoo at all. Let’s make it harder for our users to use our chat because that makes sense. Even their email system doesn’t work all the time. The only things that I even use anymore on there are the messenger (sometimes) and search.

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