Yahoo Chat Closes it’s User Created Rooms
Well folks, one of the last free open communities online for chatting and playing around on webcam has closed ’some’ of it’s doors.
Yahoo bowed to pressure from advertisers and a law suit in regards to some VERY disturbing chat rooms. The topics were so disgusting I won’t post them here, but the jist of it was in relationship to young people getting together with adults for inappropriate behavior 
And that’s putting it very mildly.
I’m not shocked that they eventually got sued for this problem, as it’s been a plague to their chat portal for years, but what I am shocked about is that they didn’t merely use a word/phrase filter list to ban all users from creating rooms with those horrid titles and topics. Also, last time I checked yahoo made a few bucks, why couldn’t they simply hire or outsource a few posisitions to moderate their rooms? It sure could use it even now.
Although the obvious chat spam is annoying yahoo chat and their webcams are really one of the nicest out there, if you use a program (3rd party yahoo chat client) you can simply put all the ‘ chat bots ‘ on ignore and it allows you to find other like minded adults to chat with about all sorts of topics from racey to business to religion.
The regular rooms are harder to find people in, as the spam is a little nuts, but they are still useful. I’m guessing a flock of chatters will leave yahoo now and find other places to go like paltalk.com etc…
If any of you know of other good chat portals, please drop a comment on this post, I’d love to go check them out and do an honest review.
Well that’s all for today’s update, take care and…
type-atcha-later,
