Complain about Yahoo go to function

I believe Yahoo! are wise to have removed the goto on messenger.

It is a privacy issue of sorts and online sexual predators used it maliciously.

This may fall under the category “others ruining our fun”…however..

If i had chat buddies i would have them added, so no matter what my room is they could pm me.

you have to remember Yahoo! “Messenger” not Yahoo! Chat Client

Chat is on non european messengers as a somewhat obligation, Yahoo! can and will remove it without remorse.

MSN chat gets removed now mid october completely, since they scratching back’s now, yahoo! chat could be next.

As for the bot problem, well yahoo! ain’t the only chat service effected by bot’s and it sure won’t be the last.

Well since Yahoo! chat is free offered such as, You have the choice to use it as much as they have to remove operational functions within its service.

However cursing about it on a online community does not make it any better or worse.

The only reason people can come up with is the “find my friends in chat” reason for yahoo! to keep the goto function, however if these people were indeed your friends, they would know your id to simple pm you even if they don’t have you on your “friends list” even since you claim they are your friends and same goes for you and the function to enter an id to private message from Y! Messenger is present.

It’s no secret programs like buddyspy used the function to “spy” on friends and other chatters, which in true fact is just as bad as following somebody about, and the removal of this function and the change in p2p packets have stopped this program working and in fact made Yahoo!’s stealth function Functional as it was made to be.

Yahoo! are making their application “work” and within every entitlement to do so.

As to not having interest in Yahoo! when or if they remove chat is entirely your right and choice as an individual.

lets hope this means something. I sent my complains useing many IM names.

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Messenger.

The issue you have written to us about has been forwarded to our
engineering staff who is currently evaluating it and determining if a
resolution is possible. Typically this means that other users have
experienced this type of problem before!

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care.

Regards,

Something is being done about chat rooms, they removed most rooms that you could not enter, but not the ones I was complaining about. I think today is the start of an upgrade to chat. Told you so, complaining works!

So you’re gonna spend ages notifying Yahoo! so they just remove them from the roomlist server.

There are many rooms unlisted on Yahoo! that have been there years and people use them, mostly old european rooms before yahoo removed chat from that locale, so if yahoo choose to totally update the room lists and remove all these rooms that are and where working, you will be happy?..because you couldnt get into married but flirting?..to name just a few.

The fact is you’re nit picking now to find anything to complain about and doing so on a free service is pointless, granted Yahoo!’s service is not impecable but not many big companies are and specially when you pay for what you get, nothing.

Urging people to mass complain about Chat does not make them go and fix problems, it makes them delete problems, why do you think they are removing features in the first place?, because of complaints like what you’re doing.

After the child and porn offenses injunction on yahoo! they had put in place a list of “remedies” to stop their service being used as a “child sex” program by proving and listing these to these peoples and persons involved that they are doing so.

Honestly, I do not think getting rid of chat will jepardize the Yahoo! market share in the least. They have other function, quite popular ones, both in IM and other realms. I think you are missing the point Dermot is patiently trying to make here. Complaining and wasting the time of busy people at Yahoo! will not achieve what you are seeking…it will just annoy them…people as busy as they are will not try to appease people who annoy them, they fix the problem quickly…by just removing the source of the problem.
And who is to say these updates they are doing have one iota to do with your complaints? They may have already been in the works. There are some things they are finally fixing that people have been complaining about for years.
I have used Yahoo! IM since it was called “Yahoo! Pager” and I remember well the day it turned into messenger. They take their time to correct things, except for the instance that Dermot mentioned, I have not seen them act quickly on many issues. But again, it is a free service…love it or leave it. I think it would be a shame if some of the old european rooms were shut down like Dermot mentioned just because they had to get rid of an entire set of rooms because of complaints. I have good friends I met in some of the Italian rooms and my husband still contacts some of the people he met in the Irish rooms and plans to visit them the next time we visit his family in Ireland. Maybe think about the big picture…shutting down chat and removing particular rooms will not hurt Yahoo! financially; it will hurt legitimate users.

I don’t believe it would make them loose all of their money. However I do believe it would put a nice dent in their pocket. Not includeing all of the people that might not use the messenger anymore because they got rid of the chat rooms. ( if they did ) As Dermot said, they do make money on the ads displayed within the messenger.

Edit: Yes I agree on the part that Yahoo may loose a fair deal of money if they did get rid of the chat rooms.
However, I don’t believe bugging the hell out of the Yahoo Staff is going to solve the bot and other problems in chat.
I have been using Yahoo Messenger for about 9 years now and the bots in chat have always been a problem.
You may be thinking about it in the wrong way, why not suggest to Yahoo that they add a feature like YTunnel,
to add a block feature, so when you block a name it is removed from the chat room instead of being just ignored.

I hate to post things that are too short…. but *sigh*