Admin & Mod overkill & no chatters.

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295Hawkins's review of VariChat - www.varichat.me

“Admin & Mod overkill and no chatters.”

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written by 295Hawkins on 04/11/2017

I joined this site originally when it was new in late 2016 and left after a couple of weeks because it was dead now almost a year on I decided to give it another shot and I really don't know why I bothered it's still dead.

My number one criticism is that there are far far too many staff and hardly any real chatters.

The Forums - These have 2 dedicated forum admins and a forum mod plus 3 or 4? site admins but most sections have not been posted in for months, some since 2016! Those sections that are posted in have post after post by staff members.

The Chat Rooms - These are modded by the 3/4 site admins and 2 dedicated chat room mods yet the highest number of people I've even seen in a room (including mods/admins that never leave) is 9 it's overkill.

Whilst it looks like you have several active rooms to choose from you will find that every room has exactly the same people in, this is due to admins constantly requesting that chatters log into all rooms at once to make the site look busier. Some admins even stay logged in 24/7 so you think people are there to talk to but they are not.

In conclusion the moderation is too strict you don't feel safe you feel like someone is going to pounce on you for any tiny thing.

Yes the other review is correct when it says no trolls and no spammers but this is due to there being no chatters!

I feel I should also point out that more than one review here is written by admins/mods from the site so aren't exactly unbiased.

You ask in your forums for reviews here so you've got one.

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Phoebe1193's Comment

Written on: 09/01/2018

This person seems to have a grudge because there are claims that are not true.
1. There is only 1 forum admin and no forum mod
2. There are many more chatters in my experience than there are mods or admins
3. There moderation is not strict at all . I in my time have not seen a mod or admin jump on anyone. Mainly because all the chatters are decent people who don't need to be. The Admins and mods if anything join in on the fun banter. Its a lot of fun.

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Peterbut's Comment

Written on: 09/02/2018

295Hawkins's Chat room run by childish people who think they have power, Big fish in a tiny pond, I think it is called.

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Varichatme's Comment

Written on: 09/02/2018

There is some miss information on this review.

This is our admin and moderation structure.

There is one forums admin only not 2.

There are the site admins one who covers the North American time one who covers the UK/Euro time zones and one who covers the Australasian time zone. It would be crazy for one person to try and cover what our admins are responsible for over a 24 hour period. Most of this work is behind the scenes administrative and technical work not chat room work.

We have a number of room moderators who are chosen to have a coverage of all time zones. You rarely see more than one in a room as they chat at different times. They tend to be responsible for one room, but have the ability to help out other rooms if needed.

The comment the moderation is quite strict is not true, it is very rare for a moderator to take any action including warning people. None of our chatters seem to fear anything as there is, when we are busy, a constant chatting with freedom and fun. If you read our rules they are pretty clear and not over the top for any reasonable person.

None of our admins or mods have commented here when they we working for varichat. The 1st review written here is a member who recently became admin of our forums. She wrote the review about 12 months before becoming the admin of the forums.

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Calcasper's Comment

Written on: 15/07/2018

what is fishy about this posting? i am writing this reply on July 15, 2018 and this post was Written on: 09/02/2018

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