Apparently some people have been avoiding registering for the chatroom because they have assumed that there will be a charge to register. This is not the case. As with the rest of this site registration for the chatroom is FREE. We do not require any credit card or personal details of any kind to register you for the chatroom.
For a trial period we are introducing a ‘watershed’ on the chatroom and the need to have a registered nickname is going to be removed before 9pm. If you’ve been having difficulty understanding the registration process then please join the chatroom before 9pm and ask one of the chatroom ops to help you. It isn’t as difficult as some people seem to think it is and I repeat it’s FREE.
If the trial period for the ‘watershed’ is successful then we may make it permanent but if the place starts overfilling with dingbats* then we will be returning to registered nicknames only.
*dingbats can be any mixture of the following which have all been seen in the chatroom at one time or another:
People constantly changing nicknames
People constantly changing sex
People poaching for other chatrooms
Men pretending to be women/couples
Spammers (advertising other sites)
Trollers (pasting the same message over and over and over and over and over)
Racists
Bigots
Clones (people in the room under two nicknames)
Under 18’s
Abusive people
Escorts/prostitutes touting for business
Pay per view webcammers touting for business
People interested in or pictures of it
Journalists
People repeatedly sending private messages without asking
If we find any dingbats in the room then be warned, the chatroom operators will ban you……..permanently.
If a dingbat approaches any chatroom user by private conversation then please tell a chatroom operator who will be happy to deal with them for you.
Steve