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Yahoo! Closes User Created Chat Rooms

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-so-hooful dept.

karvind writes "Chatmag News reports that Yahoo! has disabled all the User-created Chat rooms. According to Yahoo's chat log page:'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'. This may be true but Yahoo! is also facing a $10 million lawsuit that accuses it of cashing in on some disturbing chat rooms. The companies are paying huge fees for their ads to appear on Yahoo!. But many are now canceling those ads because of the report."

6 of 306 comments (clear)

  1. who cares? by parawing742 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've never used a Yahoo chat before anyways. There is nothing useful about public chat rooms. Oh, and FIRST POST!

  2. In Societ Russia by rockie5785 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, rooms chat through you.

    1. Re:In Societ Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I am sorry, I dont know why all russia jokes are modded down these days. Mine was modded down as well. Oh well, this is slashdot.

  3. Re:Distubring stuff in chat rooms? by RickPartin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are advertising "Elegant, Sexy & Daring Lace Tops, European Lingerie and Swim wear" in your sig on Slashdot.... Huh?

    How's that working out for you anyways? :-)

  4. Wfirst7 post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Flaws ign the BSD comE Here but now

  5. pokemon kiddies. by rudydog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I loved going in there and pissing off the pokemon kiddies. They always told me that they were great hackers. And I told them stuff 'like what is ram?' but they never had an idea what I was talking about.


    Sorry about the off topicness... I'm tired as hell and cant think...