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– Every room says theres 50 people in it. Not possible!
– Just visited Roamnce 40’s rooms – every single room gives me the message that it’s full..EVERY room. I know for sure this isn’t true.
– Chat took longer than expected error message is popping up all night. What happened to fixing the speed issues?
– Rooms are already starting to get infested with bots.
1) Indeed, it’s a bug with the listings.
2) Probably because bots are stuck in limbo, but they’re counted to the overall room count, causing the room user limits to drop.
3) This happens a lot. They fixed some thing, and created new problems. Who knew?
4) Yes, they are. Nothing lasts forever, and the captcha is proof of that. They spent a great deal of time to release an anti-bot counter measure, only to have it bypassed within a week.
I’m still convinced the only way to handle the bots is through self policing of the rooms. it’s very simple to pull off. Yahoo already has the Spam button…why don’t they use it. Why, when someone identifies a bot as Spam, is the bot allowed to continue? What is the purpose of having a Spam button that does absolutely nothing? Anyway, if a profile gets identified a certain number times as spam or a bot it needs to go away. Maybe set it up somehow so that after it’s been identified and put on hold the only way to reactivate the username is to manually insert a code, similar to what we have to do to get in a room.
I think, self policing is the way to go. Bots have started appearing again in large numbers. Like Jimmy said, the spam check option is not working and I also am wondering why the account is not locked if atleast 5 ppl report any bot as spam. The bot should be chucked out immediately and not wait for some engine to run on ther server to remove them out of the room.
It is going to be interesting to watch Yahoo’s next step in ‘Bot against war’
-gud
@Ven0m 222551 wrote:
4) Yes, they are. Nothing lasts forever, and the captcha is proof of that. They spent a great deal of time to release an anti-bot counter measure, only to have it bypassed within a week.
Publicly and brutally executing the botters would sure be permanent.
Also, I refuse to believe they have spent ANY time working on this, since I spent years telling them to implement a verification system and kick all users who are unverified after a certain number of minutes, that or hire a moderator to kick any nonhumans, but they have not listened.
Yahoo! want an automated service with low overhead, they will not hire moderators or any other functio that requires them to pay a wage.
It’s all about money to yahoo and they must keep as low a overhead to make a profit and they will take the quickest, easiest, cheapest route when working on problems.
Captcha works on stopping most bots, they just need to sort out the prep room system to not allow them to even connect to any other yahoo service bar captcha.chat.yahoo.com till they have entered the captcha, and if they don’t enter the captcha, they should get released/disconnected from their connection to yahoo.
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