Obviously, Yahoo! makes a ton of money on online ad sales, but some folks are saying that those advertisers are funding under-age sex-chat rooms. They’ve since pulled their user-created chat rooms from their site, saying (officially) that they “are working on improvements to this service to enhance the user experience and compliance with our Terms of Service.” In other words, they’ve worried they’re going to get their butt sued.
From the story, many advertisers have already dropped their ads on Yahoo, which is going to put an ugly dent on Yahoo’s bottom line.
From what “L” (who’s a volunteer in the Yahoo! chat help room and the person who sent me this link) told me, all the folks who hung out in the chat rooms are now bombarding (tens of thousands of users) the Yahoo!’s chat help room, asking where the hell they went. I’m sure there are legitimate folks using the chat rooms, but its interesting, nonetheless.
Update on 6/23: More video/news here. According to people that are still using the rooms, you can still get into the user-created rooms by issusing the “/join (insert user room name here)” command in the chat room. So the pervs are still there, but they’re just a bit harder to find.
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Thing is, outta boredom, I tried creating a room, and you still can. Least I could an hour ago.
Yes you can still create a user room,Yahoo however doesn’t list those rooms ( since last wednesday evening they were all shut down and help rooms were flooded with complaints).. Under most catagories user room lists do not show-apparently this is “being worked on to comply with Yaoo!Inc. Terms Of Service”-better yet it’s a watch and see situation..reminds me of what took place not so long ago when MSN went through the ropes with Messenger and closed public free rooms…it’s a perverts paradise..about time they straightened it out…needless to say it took some intervention before Yahoo did anything–I always did like that lil jingle..”Things go better with coke”
The “non listed” user room feature is gone, although it make a breif appearence in mid november. But many of the subjects that used to be in the “user rooms” have come down to the numbered yahoo rooms. For example the foot fetish room is fetishes:39. These “hangout rooms” are listed at a website http://www.yahlist.net
I worked at the Tumalo store for a short time back in 1985. Does anyone know if the store is still there and what the address was. Who the owners were etc?
Does anyone know if the Tumalo store is still there?
I worked there briefly back in 1985. I need to know the address and who the owners were.
Thank You