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It’s been about a month and the rooms are infested with bots again. Time for the folks at Yahoo to ditch the crew they have and hire some competent folks to run the chat. OR, do as been suggested and start deleting the bot profiles when X amount of people tag them as SPAM. Really, what is so difficult about adopting a policy of self-policing? It works on other forums…that’s a fact. If chatters are acting responsibly they will never be affected. If they are acting like jerks or are bots, porn bots even worse, let us tag them off to never never land. THE ONLY WAY TO FIX THE PROBLEM IS SELF-POLICING. NOTHING ELSE YAHOO IS DOING HAS WORKED! Come on Yahoo! Just admit what you’re doing isn’t working and start taking some suggestions from the field. It isn’t rocket science.
just checked out a Nevada room………43 bots….4 real people..,…come on yahoo….lets the chatters police these for you…..is it that hard thswallow thethe truth….WE NEED A WAY TO POLICE THESE ROOMS OURSELVES
The bot issue was never gonna be fully squashed
There are ways around captcha and always will be on the current format
Edge detection, image detection etc
There are already api’s out there to read yahoo! chat captchas
I just ventured into the chat rooms today. There are more bots than ever. Unreal, safe to say not only is it a pain to enter the rooms now but hardly worth the trouble.
Yahoo! will lose a lot of users because of it
However they are blue in the face saying it’s for the best
If Chatrooms actually worked as normal and the bots had actually been stopped at least 90% then captcha would be a welcome refresh but it’s not working..
I reported 600 bots to yahoo yesterday, they told me to ignore them…
ironic that yahoo only allow you 99 ignores..so i ignore 99 and i have 501 more to worry about and can’t ignore anybody else..
I wish upon a star the day that yahoo get someone competant to handle problems and troubleshoot issues instead of sitting all day playing solitaire and using reply templates.
simple way to fix the ignore deal. I have also told yahoo in several emails how to fix the ignores. that is to make the ignore bin client side and not server side. that way users can have up to 10k ignores without yahoo slowing down from loading all the ignores. its not like its going to cost yahoo millions to make messengers ignore bin client side.
That would work fine for the ad bots in chat but not the booting bots
even though the client is ignoring the packets from said id’s you still recieve them
hell some packets still do even with serverside ignore
Captcha was a bad choice to go with. Captcha is one of the older systems and most OCR detection software long ago could defeat it. If you search and read papers on OCR verifiers and programs made to defeat them, you’ll see that Captcha was a poor choice, if only cuz it was one of the first and by now every 13yr old botter and his friends can defeat it.
Someone at Yahoo did a very bad homework job.
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