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January 29, 2006 at 5:52 am in reply to: Want an invitation to beta test Windows Live Messenger? #136089CrazyAngelMember
Can I have one please? I guess I’m a little late noticing this thread. 😮
CrazyAngelMemberAs cute as a petition is, I don’t think a few thousand signatures are going to do anything when Yahoo is losing millions of dollars in advertising revenue.
I’m not sure what’s going to become of this, but it will be interesting. Closing user created chat rooms certainly isn’t the solution to the problem, but a mere obstacle. I am 20 years old but have been hanging out in The Girls’ Club:1 (a teen room) for quite some time mainly because of the people I’ve met back when I was, you know, a teenager.
In any case, there are people in their 40s and 50s here all the time. Granted that I shouldn’t be complaining because I haven’t been a teen for about a month and a half now but 40s and 50s seems a little over the top to me. Oh yeah, I’m not looking for sex or to see nudes either. So the problem isn’t just in user created rooms.
I’m not sure what the solution to the problem is other than shutting down all the rooms or hiring minimum wage employees to moderate the chat rooms. I’m not a big fan of chat room moderation since they all seem to be power hungry but I’m not sure what else Yahoo can do. I have a feeling that when all of this comes to an end, user created rooms will remain gone while Yahoo turns the other cheek and ignores the pedophilia going on in their rooms until another investigation happens into Yahoo’s rooms.
CrazyAngelMemberActually, always ask for permission will still show that tv thing by your name when you’re in chat rooms. I’ve been told to do this by a couple of people so I’m not sure if this is just me that gets stuck with the TV, or if it’s some urban legend surrounding Yahoo.
One way that I found to get around this is to sign into Yahoo Chat with a new name. If you are looking at Yahoo Messenger go to “Messenger” and then click on “My Profiles” and create something and set it to active. Next you can click on that chat button and where it says “Enter chat room as:” scoll down and select your new profile. When you join a room it will ask you if you want to use your webcam on the profile you will be using in chat… just say no.
What I have recently choosen to do is use Yahoo Messenger for my real Yahoo ID and use YahElite (http://www.yahelite.org) for the one I use in chats. YahElite was difficult for me to learn but it has a lot of features and has strong boot resistance. I think the only reason I still use Yahoo Messenger is because I like that it has a larger webcam box and the animated similes *huggle*. 😛
As for the number of users that can view, I always got stuck at 30 before people started requesting reset, booting, etc.
CrazyAngelMemberI have this same problem and it is really annoying (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t). Another issue that I have with Yahoo is that they only allow you to have 100 ignores. If there were only 100 bots this would be fine but it can get really annoying at times.
You might want to consider using YTunnel or YahELite.
CrazyAngelMemberIf you are talking to someone and they are not replying, I think it’s safe to say that they are ignoring you. 🙂
CrazyAngelMemberI get that when I try to upload a gif — jpeg works fine for me.
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