written by Stephanie41 on 02/09/2017
As a mother of a teenage daughter who is looking to expand her horizons, I take her wishes seriously. For her safety and my own peace of mind, I always look myself at any websites she wants to use to see if I think they are suitable and worth it. In the case of this chat site, I can honestly say no. I can appreciate what is trying to be done here, with registration, as yes it does keep out trolls and so on. I also like the Arcade idea - this gives things to do on the site if it's quiet. However this is where it stops. There are many negatives that I can see here, and it points to general activity of the site. I have looked at the rooms several times over the past few days and only once did the room activity show more than 2 people logged in. So I looked at the forums. Many boards haven't even been posted in for months. There only seems to be a handful of users. And what appears to be an admin almost begging people to log in longer to catch new people - this sounds desperate. The usage was much higher looking back ealier in the year but there appears to be a large amount of banned users. This is looking like a case of if you aren't liked you are chucked out. The news page repeats the site name with "free chat" so many times it's clear this is an attempt to get more hits on search engines. The associated facebook page is utterly dead; very few posts and only by site staff members. Looking at a number of reviews they also seem to be written by staff members. For a site that seems little used, it seems very sluggish at loading the web pages too. I know my daughter will be banned from this site early on, as if people ask for a picture I tell her "Never ever give one of yourself" - so if she IS bullied into producing one then because it's not her she will get banned for keeping herself safe. This looks like a dying site with very little activity and very little going for it, barring the arcade. Promotion seems to be non-existent, and one or two other things I have read and heard make me think this isn't the place to be.
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Flamingjade's Response to Stephanie41's Review
Written on: 21/09/2017
No one is ever asked to give a picture on this site. As a matter of fact it is frowned upon by the mods and regular members to do so.
There are only about 10 -15 banned users at most. They were people caught breaking the serious rules as listed and were a danger to other users.
The site is growing weekly with new chatters joining every day.
This review is totally inaccurate as to what really happens.
Peterbut's Response to Stephanie41's Review
Written on: 09/02/2018
You hit the nail on the head," This is looking like a case of if you aren't liked you are chucked out." I also found out, there is a sacrificial kicking to make a conversation point.
I am sure they are happy in their little world, I was happy to ignore and move away, but I have just received a Very Slanderous allegation against me from my review,take care
Varichatme's Response to Stephanie41's Review
Written on: 09/02/2018
This review has a number of inaccuracies.
No one asks for pictures and to my knowledge never do. If someone was asking a person who didn't want to they would be warned to stop doing so. At no stage has any of the Admins or moderators asked such things, it is not our policy to do so, nor will it ever be. If you read our safety pages we give warnings about sharing pictures on the net. We also talk about actions you can take if someone is making you feel uncomfortable or feel bullied.
As far as banned users, there is currently 7 banned users in total for the site(out of 780 registered chatters). Some who used multiple accounts trying to hurt our chatters. Some accounts on forums were spam accounts that all forums get, they tend to be from people trying to advertise pornography. None of those forums accounts are from the main chat site. We have since found a better way of dealing with these nefarious registrations and they are removed and banned before they get in. This is standard procedure for the vast majority of forums on the web.
I note that the largest independent chat site on the net who has 1000s of chatters in its room at any given time, their forums are used about as much as ours are.
We do not ban because we don't like someone. We use evidence base procedures. We actually work very hard to make sure we do not unfairly ban someone. We also do not over moderate the rooms. Interestingly our members are really good chatters, they don't do anything that requires a warning mute or kick in general. Being good chatters means the room can seem busy with only 10 in a room.
The forums are used by far more people than site workers.
You are complaining about standard SEO(Search Engine Optimisation)practices that all sites use in order to get a better ranking on Google. That is an effort to grow the site for the benefit of our chatters. Interestingly it is working with new registrations and chatters daily. SEO is a standard thing all professionally run sites do. You would be silly to not do so as search engines is where people find businesses these days. Google even helps you to do this. I note at the end of this comment you say promotion seems nonexistent yet you complain about the use of standard SEO practice.
That brings us to the dying comment. We are a new and growing site. New chat sites are never busy 24/7 in the first 3 years of existence especially sites that use safe practices (there are very few). Even the currently biggest independent chat site(which does not use safe practices for its chatters) went through this at its beginnings. I note at certain times we are busier than a number of rooms on this site.
Phoebe1193's Response to Stephanie41's Review
Written on: 09/01/2018
I think this person has never been to this site as it isn't my experience or the experience of my friends there. No one is ever bullied into anything from what I have seen