Yes I remember there used to be a lot fun on here with people from all kinds of places, pity it's gone to the dogs so to speak, but as you say it is what it is..
oh yeah.. we had a BLAST!! *Zee sings* "raise a lil hell, raise a little hell..."
I met REAL people, as you stated, from all over the world.. Asia, Australia and so many more places.. I was always eager to come onto the site at the end of a day to hang out with like minded people, laugh, and simply connect.. now?? again as you stated.. it seems to have gone to the dogs! pity really.. but like everything in life.. things constantly change.. but not always for the good.. sadly!
I feel like I kill more threads then anything else.. people simply don't want to seem to engage..
You are describing the old Yahoo Chat rooms to a "T".
Instead of scammers they had "booters" - immature little shights who got off on causing others misery.
The saving grace of Yahoo Chat was that room creators had admin/mod powers and could kick out undesirables & keep them banned (thus leading to the common practice of creating dozens of user names).
That sort of thing would go a long way toward cleaning out the hustlers, escorts, & scammers (most of them are obvious, blatant, easily detected, & terrible at the whole go on WazzzApp/Telegrift/Googlyeye Chat/Seignail & "send me money" grift - like this is the grift factory on-line training center or something.)
Admins here lose nothing and have a shight-ton to gain by allowing volunteer moderators to detect, process, & decide the fates of all the unfilled profiles that keep turning up in so-called "matches".
Private chat forums for moderators, where they compare notes over repeat turn-ups in matches, when the "match" part is an obvious crock when they haven't filled out ANY of the de-minimus bio categories even, have no photo or one that is obviously not in accord with what their given age/ethnicity is, or if their profile fill-in looks like it was a copy&paste job from a script so many of them use without even attempting to modify/personalize it.
So says Bob
