why did yahoo get rid of all the "user" rooms?
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the user rooms are being misued like forcing children for sex.\nsome concerned groups sued yahoo for not monitoring........for more information check these articles\n \nhttp://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=7600&title=Yahoo!%20Closes%20User%20Created%20Chat%20Rooms.\nhttp://www.betanews.com/article/Yahoo_Shutters_User_Chat_Rooms/1119538447
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Yahoo shut down its user-created chat rooms after a TV station reported that some of them were being used by adults to promote sex with kids. This happened about half a year ago.
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YES...\n\nIt's been resolved and the whole YAHOO is back to normal\n\nMust be some kinda upgrade to bring down the whole Portal...!!!
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yahoo recently changed their system, you've got to go finish your profile again.
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since when did yahoo answers bcum a chat room
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Why do you want to close it out?\n\nRealistically, Yahoo! Mail has one of the largest data stores anywhere in the world.  (On the order of Petabytes, which is a little less than a million times bigger than your computer's hard drive.)  It's just not cost effective (today) for Yahoo! to try to reclaim space by deleting abandoned accounts.\n\nSo what prevents you from just opening a new, unconnected account? If you ever want this one back, all you need to do is log back in.
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Why delete them, they will be used for a person looking for an answer to a similar or same question. That is the reason that the search area is there.
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when u enter chat......choose user rooms.....not the yahoo rooms. that simple.
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YAHOO SEEMS TO BE DELETING THE ACCOUNTS OF THOSE THAT ARE OPPOSED TO THE DEMOCRATIC AND LIBERAL VIEWS. WHY HASN'T JIM W BEEN DELETED THAT GUY SAYS SOME PRETTY CRAZY STUFF YET HE IS A STAUNCH DEMOCRAT. BUT IF YOU AS MUSH AS OPPOSE A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRATIC VIEW YOU GET A VIOLATION NOTICE. THEN YOU GET DELETED. IT IS BECOMING A JOKE. THE POLITICAL FORUM IS ONE SIDED.
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You have to delete the entire account. There is an Account Deletion page at: \nhttps://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
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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.
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Yahoo is displaying that based on IP. so probably its directing one pc to the new site and the other one to the old
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Not sure if there legal, and there is a way of making them i believe. Not many people know about it. I think there legal, but whenever yahoo see's one, they will usually deactivate them
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I've been on Yahoo since the 90s.  Before last summer, there were user/private rooms available in chat.  From what I understand, last summer pedophiles were caught in Yahoo chatrooms, in a room that was sponsored by a major soft drink corporation.  User/private rooms were pulled down in 24 hours, and the ability to make private rooms is now restricted.  Plus, as you say, your IP address is collected.  \n\nMy idea is that this is a make-nice token effort to do something, anything, about the problem of online pedophilia.  It's easy to just change Yahoo IDs, or login from another location or even own multiple computers.  However, chat now is only public rooms, although people can still use private/instant messages.  So for better or worse, since pedophiles know the law to protect themselves from it, I'm pretty sure that that particularly evil brand of sickness is still going on, unfortunately.  \n\nSo due to Yahoo's negligence, pedophiles' sickness and their natural predatory natures, the sick, evil people have once again messed up everything for the rest of us.\n\nK, longtime Yahoo user
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go to the yahoo account deletion page\n\nhttps://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
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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.
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Deleting Yahoo accounts \nI have received several requests (not here) on how to delete your Yahoo accounts, so I am posting the solution here. First off, Yahoo doesn't want people to delete their accounts so they can claim that they have x number of users. For the longest time, the only link to the "Terminating your Yahoo Account" page was in help. Then, a couple years ago, they disabled that link...\nSolution: First, sign into Yahoo. Then, go to https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user