Frustrating little sod

hi jan

thanks for posting this. i am gonna stay off chat for a while for the reasons above. makes my blood boil, and i dont need it. none of us do.

hope admin sort this sicko out.

Love, C x

Hi jbe If you remember I disappeared and fired of a email to head office and this morning Rebecca (my friend) told me that freak has been banned. So I've been back on and all is well.

And I agree with your post .It is our Room and we well defend it to the utmost (a bit Churchillian there)

Regards

Mick Tax

It's all very well banning Yomi-whatshisname-Koti BUT we are all aware that almost every night now we are seeing increasing numbers of fakes, scammers and some who are just plain odd. I have only been a member of the chat room for about 4 months now but I'm certain that there was not this quantity of fakes there in the earlier months. However I have been told by some members who have been there for far longer that this is an ongoing problem, that they seem to come in waves.

Now surely there must be SOMETHING we can do. It has been pointed out that admin cannot give members the power to ban people as that would cause further problems, which is a fair point...

I have also witnessed a growing sense of paranoia in the room recently, every time someone joins it seems that they are being scrutinised for how genuine or otherwise they may be. I have noticed that the regulars have bound together in our own close net group as a safety measure it would seem. Half the room spends the night in private chat or in the fun room... I know that I tend to be far more comfortable next door with a few members I know well.

Last nights episode with Yomi was particularly distressing as not only did he/she struggle to type at a level equal to my 7-year-old, they blurted out obscene words and when I tried to distract them into private chat, to spare the rest of the room she simply treated me to an account of what she did with her cat in her new house... Which I shan't repeat here!

I must admit, half the time I was sat here laughing at the pure strangeness of the statements. Some scammers are annoying but at the end of the day, I think we can laugh it off. The ones that make me want to dismantle my laptop are the ones who come in pretending to have cancer, with stories that are so unbelievable you wonder how on earth they came up with them (remember angelcountry)

So, all in all, this is an ongoing problem which is simply down to a very weird age of technology....

I propose that we all hereby communicate via pigeon mail and Morse code. Forget Internet, let's get back to basics famous five stylee!

My rant is officially over!

Anna!

I went in chat in the beginning and I found it to be very cliche.

I prefer to blog or PM then I know who I am talking to and that people want to listen to me.

Whilst I realise that we all have our favourites and friends. I had gone into the chatroom for help and found it to be anything but helpful, I was being ignored and the conversation was totally personal between a group of people who had obviously been talking to each other for quite a while.

Take care all Love Julie X

Hi all.  I didn't get into chat last night and am dismayed to find that Yomi was back in there as I had an email from Admin telling me Yomi had been banned!  How did this person manage to still be on there after admin told me they had banned her?  I really hope this gets sorted out.

For anyone else who comes into chat and thinks it is a clique can I just say that once you've been in there a while you make friends with people and so for anyone new coming in it may seem like a clique but it isn't.  The genuine people in there offer fabulous support to anyone new but you have to give them a chance, especially when it's busy.  When you enter the chatroom there may be 3, 4 or more conversations going on but I know we all say hi and if we don't recognise someone we ask if they're new and normally tell them just to chip in when they feel like it.  Some of the members even post a short statement saying who we are and what we do in there and welcoming new members.  When I first went in I found it a struggle to keep up but people were lovely and if I hadn't had that support I don't know how I would have coped with my mums illness.  I for one always try to welcome newbies and make them feel at ease although I must admit Anna is right that we've all become wary of anyone new because of the number of scammers we've had in there.  The ones who have pretended to have cancer being the worst.  I admit I gave someone a grilling the other night because things didn't seem to add up.  I felt bad afterwards in case the person was genuine and just a little confused about things but there have been so many scammers on there and some members have been really upset by them.  

Having said there have been problems in there I would advise anyone new to give it some time to get to know people as their support is well worth the effort.  If you come in and see me and I don't welcome you give me a nudge!!  Caroline XX