Why are there bots allowed in the chat rooms..Idont care to know their sex preferences..im just there to chat?
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Well, I have to say, I don't chat in Yahoo anymore at all, but  from around 1998 - 2003, I was in there all the time and there were PLENTY of SexBots back then as well. \n\nAll you can do is block and report, then hope Yahoo will do something about it - but they'll always find a way around it.
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All user rooms were eliminated from yahoo chat due to alot of perceived illegal activity. Only the yahoo rooms themselves are left, and they're filled with bots.
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this is not the place to find a friend or what u call a girlfriend because this is all about question and answers and u couldn't react privately because this is a public domain where everybody is ananymous. maybe it is better if u would go to a chat room where u can find somebody whom u can chat in real time.
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What chat room you want? Your information not enough, can't help you... sorry.
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I like the smartass Refresh's answer: duh, time for an Yahoo revolution. Real bright, huh? Just like when he answered my question about the sexually explicit questions being asked by young people on this site. Telling me to "get a life" because I was concerned that pedophiles might use the site to stalk some of the teens asking questions about sex. Hey, Refresh, Are you a pedophile? If not, then why did you attack me so vehemently, accusing me of being of the censorship mentality. By the way, yes I am all for censorship when it comes to minors combining sexual conversation with open internet sites that can be accessed by pedophiles. Looks like you should freshen up on human ethics, Refresh. How ironic a name, by the way.
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Boy do I hear you!  I used to use the chat rooms alot back in the beginning of my computer useage, but it became such a hassle to sort thru who was for real and who were 'posers' just out to cause issues with you that I had to stop.  I have not had any chatting for a long time now.  Good luck, and best regards.
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As far as i know all the chat rooms are filled with bots...it requires a lot of patience to catch a real person..
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It is unfortunate.  Yahoo is working on controlling them through reporting.\n\nThis is how bots work.  These people are paid well to do this.  A person creates a program to be able to function in a chat room and runs down the list of chatters and sends them a message hoping to get them into their site.  These programs are sophisticated enough to create multiple anonymous accounts that Yahoo finds difficult to monitor.\n\nIn the future, to prevent these from happening, Yahoo can create email verification or "characters in image" verification to slow these down, however the people who use bots will eventually create technology that surpasses that.\n\nI do not work for Yahoo, but I am confident that Yahoo is tackling these issues daily and trying to find ways to make the Internet a better experience for its users.\n\nI used to have AOL and Netzero.  SBC Yahoo has been the best provider for me and they seem to take bots and spam more seriously than other providers.
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what forum banned you? I have a list of proxys you might not know about or I can join just to find out why you were banned(as long as its not a sex related or gay site, which I wont join)I have been banned from forums myself...most times I asked for it though;)
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there might be codes that you need, for private messages. ask the bot.
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Yahoo chat used to be, but women stopped doing that lately, and too many bots are there.  When I told people of the ones left doing it, they didn't believe me--they thought I was advertising something.
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Well, if you can find such a chat, so can the trolls.  Trolls like nothing better than to smear their -- ahem -- dirt on nice, clean things.  The only way I can see to avoid them would be for the chat to have sufficient delay in it for monitors to review and censor all incoming messages.  That's not a chat, however, since as I understand it, the very nature of a chat means virtually instantaneous participation.\n\nMaybe you know now why I do not participate in chat rooms.
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bots. maybe porn bots. nasty little things. click ignore.
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yes I use chat rooms every day love them most are great but alot of bot's to contend with is the only down side I can see.with ytunnle and other programs it can help to download them before you go to chat rooms to protect you and your pc
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Bots aren't just in chat rooms,  they're everywhere.  They log into places where people congregate,  and post messages  (advertising).  Often the messages are about porn,  but it can be other stuff too.\n\nThat's why alot of places  (like Yahoo Groups,  for example)  have an encrypted security screen,  where you have to type in the random letters/numbers  they show you.  Only a live person  is able to read, interpret,  and type the letters/numbers.
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there is nothing wrong in chatting with moer than one males.\ndont males chat with several women
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I did some volunteer moderating for an english virtual chat site. I don't think of them as any different, other than the slang they use. Frankly, I can't STAND it. IE: "wot fancy fit fab lad wold like 2 bloody snog me???"