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21 June 2005  Chatmag News.
Yahoo Chatters React to Chat Room Closing.

In a previous news article, Chatmag News reported that Yahoo! had closed their user created chat rooms.  This closure was in an apparent response to a lawsuit filed last year against Yahoo! and a KPRC-TV Houston "Troubleshooters" expose`.

The following are excerpts from Chatmag's discussion forum regarding the closure of the Yahoo! chat rooms.

'I've had the internet since I was 13, now i'm 21 and ever since then, i've used Yahoo chat rooms. I've even been into the rooms with the 'questionable' titles recently, and have not found anyone under the age of 20 in them..."

"I believe what yahoo has done is wrong. By removing all user-created rooms, many interest groups have lost out, and people in search of some 'naughty fun' have lost out too." 

"Now the only rooms avaliable are the yahoo created ones, which fill rapidly with 'bots' and people who continually ask why the user rooms don't work."

"I seriously doubt that there was any need whatsoever to close the user-created rooms in the Adult section of yahoo chat. By consenting to enter the Adult chat rooms you are declaring that you are over the legal age in your country; so if you are underage and something bad happens to you in them, then it's your own fault."

"User-created rooms should be removed from general chat topics where anyone can access them. Yahoo have effectively 'carpet-bombed' the yahoo chat facility.... in such a way as the US Airforce is familiar... by eliminating everything in sight but with many civilian losses and only a few intended targets being removed."

"I believe that yahoo will lose lots of clients in response to this closure or usercreated rooms, as this is really the only reason that most people visit yahoo chat, especially as the majority of the rooms are now populated by 'bots'."

"I've been using yahoo for the past 8 years... so i'm going to continue to use their service in the hope that they'll fix it, but for people just starting out in chatting, i'd recommend looking elsewhere for a chat service."

"I've read your articles and I think that your idea of moderation for Yahoo Chat is NOT a good idea... atleast for the adult areas. People come to Yahoo! because they like to say and do as they please.. and if you allow somebody to "moderate" the room.. it is up to that perso what is and isn't okay by their standards. It opens up doors for people to "power trip" etc... Maybe your idea of moderation may be good for the little kids rooms, etc... Something like this will completely ruin Yahoo! Chat if not enabled properly."

"This is the proverbial case of curing dandruff by decapitation. Instead of actually doing something proactive to improve the chat environment (getting rid of bots, moderating) they just cut off user chat rooms altogether."

"What REALLY bothers me though is that nobody knew it happened. Everyone was in the Yahoo rooms going "anyone else having problems getting into User Rooms?" Their help pages had nothing about the change. Only by searching Google news and finding the Chatmag article was able to know what happened and reach the Yahoo page mentioning that the rooms were closed. I'm boycotting Yahoo until they fix this -- moving all of my email to GMail and NEVER clicking on an ad on thier pages.."

"I happen to be an online rper, how am I suppose to meet my group without a room?"

"IF the parents would watch there children properly they would not have this problem yahoo is not causeing it bad parenting is...they just want someone to blame other than themselves..parents r more worried about how much $$ they make instead of who is watching there kids ..we losse out cause of ignorant ppl who should not have kids ...I know this and yes I am a parent and I watch my kids like a hwak if u can't watch ur kids then turn ur internet off Cause ur not a good enough parent to take care of ur kids or watch ur kids ..unplug ur comp put on a password DO SOMTHING MORE THAN BITCH about what ur kids r doing when ur not spending time with them....take the kids comps out of there room...I mean my god how much do u really trust ur kids to let them have comps and then sue other ppl for ur own problems"

--Chatmag News Staff--

External Links:

Chatmag's Discussion Forum.

KPRC-TV: Investigation Shows Big Business Funding Sex Chat Rooms.

Yahoo! Closes User Created Chat Rooms.
 
 

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