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yahoo chat is the biggest joke of the internet.   I have conducted my own survey to find real people but so far only bots, web site hustlers or other assorted promoters  of dating services  etc  now probably yahoo gets away with this or does not care since they   " hold up" their site visitors volume  on the search engine to  sell ads of their own...
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Yahoo Chat Rooms... Scum Of The Internet

TaurenShaman
Does anyone DISagree with me on this?

I mean, the yahoo chat rooms are FULL of guys looking to cyber, older guys looking to cyber, guys pretending to be girls looking to cyber, and porn bots. People are VERY VERY fake in there. Granted, people aren't always what they seem in chat rooms, and I guess you can say everyone is a bit fake in one way or another online, but, I think this really takes the place in the yahoo chat. Also, the booters? Seriously, Everyone spending their time loading mass 10 id booters and mass IMing people until they drop? Then everyone has to get an anti-booter. And then Someone looks for a better booter to get through the anti-booters and Y Tunnel... Its ridiculous.

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PC Astray
I don't agree. It depends on what kind of chatrooms you join too so all you have to do is to drop into one chatroom with a decent name and see what's going on in there and leave since that's what I normally do but I seldom use Yahoo! and spend my time chatting with people I know on MSN Messenger.

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Due to the overwhelming response, I think I will have to disagree probably because I'm not too exposed to Yahoo! dry.gif

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l337 Nurse Pedestrian
I agree with you, Tauren. I go on chats alot, mostly Xbox chats. Then I go to others, and it's crazy. I'm serious, they are a bunch of heathens, if you ask me. Then what's really annoying, when you leave a chat, a bot pops up and says "singles.com/67832683.(yourusernamehere).asp , I'm waiting for you."
Then the irritating toungue emoticon. Very disturbing... AIM is worse though. As for the booting, been booted before, then again, I've booted someone before. I honestly think that that's too much power. Yeah there are mass Im'ers too, that keep Iming you until you have to cut off your computer by pressing the button, instead of start>shutdown.

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overture
i 100% absolutly agree with you TaurenShaman! Yahoo messenger is full of people with false identities and misleading UserNames getting in to rooms and pretending to be people they are not. I think Yahoo should take a note from MSN cos they stopped or seriously supervised or whatever their chatrooms cos there were too many pervs in their grooming kids and what not. There is far too much being gotten away with in those chat rooms but nothing or very little is being done about it.

There is no or extremely little moderation and with all the software available out there for yahoo people can do a lot of damage or view private webcams and even record them without peoples knowledge. i stopped using Yahoo years ago before things started to get really really bad with YM. i just think it is disgusting what happens there and what the children who genuinley use it to chat with their mates or whatever get subjected too.

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rapisten
I was for about 3 years in an yahoo room and I know what you talk about everyone there wants to find some *********.
But also in AIM they got chat rooms like that they are full with perverts.

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megsi25
QUOTE (TaurenShaman @ Apr 1 2005, 09:24 AM)
Does anyone DISagree with me on this? 

I mean, the yahoo chat rooms are FULL of guys looking to cyber, older guys looking to cyber, guys pretending to be girls looking to cyber, and porn bots.  People are VERY VERY fake in there.  Granted, people aren't always what they seem in chat rooms, and I guess you can say everyone is a bit fake in one way or another online, but, I think this really takes the place in the yahoo chat.  Also, the booters?  Seriously, Everyone spending their time loading mass 10 id booters and mass IMing people until they drop?  Then everyone has to get an anti-booter.  And then Someone looks for a better booter to get through the anti-booters and Y Tunnel...  Its ridiculous.
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I totally agree with you on this, i've been in yahoo chat rooms before and all you see are old guys pretending to be girls and trying to cyber with everyone, its rather disgusting because all I want to do is go into the chat rooms and talk to my friends but all the bots and cybering guys ruins all my fun. To top it all off everyone is getting Y Tunnel and other anti-booters and it just makes the experience worse in my opinion, makes the computer go slower and they dont always work in some cases. One time I had this guy who booted me and at least 100 ims popped up on my screen and it was so bad, which made me so mad but o well what can we do?

 

 

 


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TaurenShaman
Its ridiculous. I mean, right now I just looked under the games category user rooms, and I just counted 6 with uh, bad names or themes. ITs disgusting. And yahoo does nothing about it. What's even worse I think is how a 13 year old can just go in there, and all of the sudden have a 34 year old woman send a cam invite where she is doing innapropriate things on camera...

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tothefnmax
i'm sure people have their reasons to do that... i can think of one, because they're bored outta their mind and have nothing else better to do than go on yahoo chat and mess around with other people...Myself, even do that before and i thought it was funny. But i've grew now, still, i act like a little kid sometimes. :/

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Indy_tunes
All that goes on is the questions of Sex? Age? Location?
anyone near my area?

And the rooms have been over ran with bots selling sex.

And then that one guy who talks trash to everyone.

Not worth my time. I would much rather be a part of a community like this one, with people whom have common interest and actually like to help eachother.

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noonster22
Yahoo Chatroom is very downgraded. AIM chatrooms are not any different... These days no chatrooms are worthy to even chat in.

I think the best chatrooms must be that of AOL. It offers supervisions, and it would not let to spam.

Unlike its counter-part that it owns, AIM, it does let you spam, have bots in, and all of these other unmentionable features.

AOL has kept it a good place for people to chat friendly.

Although there are some reports of sexual harassments going on, they can be reported.

And since AOL has your credit card number, reporting the harass'ers username is like putting their name to shame.

AOL can locate your information via your credit card, and take the appropriate measures.

This is the case, and it is the ultimate deterence.

Thusfar it is working, and hence AOL has the safest chatrooms yet. Even though it has those who are 50-years old "rebels," they can easily be taken care of... via suing.

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yahoo chat is the biggest joke of the internet.   I have conducted my own survey to find real people but so far only bots, web site hustlers or other assorted promoters  of dating services  etc  now probably yahoo gets away with this or does not care since they   " hold up" their site visitors volume  on the search engine to  sell ads of their own


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KiLLerxQu33n
I definitely agree. Chat rooms are pretty creepy... I try to keep out of them as much as I can.

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msabas
there is no differenece between yahoo and AOL rooms.. it seems like where ever you go its gonna happen.. and its sad to hear or say that.. but its true.. and ive seen on tv where they are finding some of these people. and im glad..

but it is pretty bad that the yahoo and AOLpeoples re4ally cant controll it.. there should be something that sets of an alert like adding banned words.. soemthing that will notify yahoo everytime a certain word is type and who typed it ..

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tansqrx
To my knowledge there is only one way to “hack” a Yahoo account and that is done by cracking. Simply put, an attacker tries a list of possible passwords (dictionary) until he finds the password. The sure fire way to avoid this type of attack is to use a password that is not a common word or even a word at all. Another downfall to this attack is Yahoo limits a user to how many times they can try a password before they get blocked (999 HTTP response header). One can possibly lengthen the search space by using proxies but this can become quite difficult very quickly.

I am not trying to be harsh to your girlfriend but this time make sure she uses a secure password. This includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters and is at least eight characters long. I highly doubt a cracker could get her password any other way. To validate my suspicions, ask her what her old password was.

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Pharoah
Yeah, there are two kinds of people you'll find in chat rooms. People who are really offensive and annoying, or peole who really don't talk about anything. There are exceptions, of course, but this is what i've found. When I join my friends' chats they're all immature and make wierd little jokes that arent funny. For some reason, you're much better off with 1 on 1 messages, which is why I'm very glad Google Talk didn't even try to put chat rooms in.

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