why do yahoo allow bots in chat rooms and games room?
82078
there way of controling things and besides  they get payed for it
533518
There are search engines like this and there is a firefox extention which does something simaler to this.  I would not trust this because companies would higher companies to have bots vote for them.
448814
Yahoo! User-created chat rooms are no longer available.  According to Yahoo's chat log in page: \n\n"The ability to publish user-created chat rooms in the public Yahoo! Chat directory is currently unavailable. We are working on improvements to this service to enhance the user experience and compliance with our Terms of Service" \n\nYahoo! chat users can view this notice by logging in to Yahoo! Chat via your web browser, and navigating to the chat listings. Once in the listings, click on the "user rooms" link. A screen shot of this notice is available, click here -> http://www.chatmag.com/news/yahoo_chat.jpg. \n\nIn recent years, the Yahoo! chat rooms have been inundated by "ad bots", automated programs that deluge users with private messages containing links to commercial web sites. Online predators have also utilized the Yahoo! chat rooms, seeking children for real or online encounters. \n\nPetitions to Yahoo! to create moderators, or chat room operators have been submitted to Yahoo!,  with no positive results from the Yahoo! staff. \n\nSeveral online vigilante groups, most notably Perverted-Justice.com have also used the Yahoo! chat rooms seeking "wannabe" online predators, and in most cases, publishing transcripts of private conversations conducted within Yahoo! chat. The closure of the user created chat rooms will in effect stop Perverted-Justice.com from operating within Yahoo! chat. \n\nThis closure of the user created chat rooms is system wide, in all Yahoo! chat categories. No further information is available at this time.
883750
EXCELLENT Question!!!!\n\nI stopped chatting in yahoo rooms long ago because of that. It really sucks. On Y!A you cant call a rooster a c0ck without it being edited or deleted but you have porn ads and bots all over every chat room! Obvious where yahoo decided to spend their money, yes?
1124741
I think most of the "people" in the chat rooms are bots.  Bots are "robots", they aren't really people, they are programs that try to get you to go to a pay site somewhere.
999805
Well, Yahoo! doesn't seem to like getting sued for things that go on in the user rooms, and it's pretty hard to think of a way to prevent it from happening again since they don't have the staff to moderate every user room, and the posts are automatic so people will always see them before they get removed.\n\nThe conferencing feature works pretty well, though, if you already know people you want to invite to chat with. All you have to do is invite whomever you want to join in.
226091
i dont think yahoo is allowing to use multiple profiles when entering  chat room -- both at the same time. you can use either one of your profiles, but not both. there are users slash hackers slash booters that use other software to have multiple accounts on one room. if you want, you can do that thing to. go to google then search for yahoo bots. or, go to www.booterworld.com i dont think its still operating though.
544779
"Bots" are auto-programs that wait for a certain trigger and activate. You got hit with some bad ones. "Flood" is to get someone off a channel used for private or illegal purposes, like spamming. Report this to the proper authorities and let them deal. Meanwhile, find a new chat room.
1061564
Those are to keep out 'bots' from websites that might want to mass produce profiles or email addresses... This way if they (the websites) want to mass produce profiles or email addresses they have to complete them in person.
549205
Make sure you aren't running any programs to help you cheat in games. Yahoo will disable your account if they catch you, and your text won't show up in the lounge.
673966
i get the "joining a chat room took longer than expected" message every time i try to join a chat room too, so i no longer bother with it because yahoo has screwed it up.\n\nso i just go to http://www.yahoochat.com to chat now because messenger is absolute rubbish!
1012011
They think youre a bot. They accuse people of being a bot when you dont respond to them and if youre playing games really well. It happened to me during Pogo Bowling. A bot is when someone goes away from the keyboard and a bot program is basically playing the game for you. Yes, they are cheating programs.\n\nJust ignore them. They are just jealous pie-holes.
124800
So someone cannot make a "bot" that makes different accounts over and over.  It's all messed up because a software program that reads print and duplicates it cannot read it the way it is made.
297867
Yeah. At least if they (ads) are adult-themed, vulgar or inflamatory. Chat rooms shouldn't be censored, however I think chatroom controllers should create chatrooms separately for adults and children, this way there is less interaction between them and thus less of a chance for pedophiles to contact children.
1061496
Their fake usernnames. Their usually bots. I know in order use Buddy Spy you have to make a ghost name.  Mines always says I'm in idle. You can make them say different thing.
125145
You dont. In the most recent server update that also came with the newest yahoo messenger, they removed the option to create your own room because of a lawsuit related to someone stalking someone else. Because these rooms were private and unmonitored (The public rooms are recorded for just this reason), yahoo is afraid of liability.
512605
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.