Sunday, April 13, 2008

Insecure Koach.com Censors Chat!

so, today we finally broke down and visited the koach.com chat line. koach.com is the chat service formed by the clowns who were so terrible in managing msn's chatline that it was eventually closed down due to lack of use. (their shoddy management style ran off all msn's chatter/subscribers).

to say that koach.com is dead would be generous. we went in many rooms which had just a few chatters that werent chatting at all. finally we wound up in the koach's workshop chat room, which, despite saying that it contained seventy something chatters there was actually only two or three chatting and chatting intermittently at that. no host greeted us, in fact, a gaveled host was on "away."

as the following screen grabs show, we mentioned buzzen and phriek and immediately we were muzzled. koach.com seems to be so insecure that they muzzle then disconnect their users who make the mistake to merely mention another chat line.

former msn chatters might remember how then sysop_vsi and admin_koach deployed this technique against them shortly before msn chat closed. recall how koach.com was the only alternative chat line allowed to be promoted out in the general chat. mention of, for instance, buzzen immediately brought a ban.

however, buzzen to their credit does not seem to possess this childish insecurity, as we've documented in the past they have allowed koach.com personnel such as "global moderator/sysop" kiwigirl to come onto their chat service to promote koach.com with no adverse action taken against them.

as you can see, we actually made a typo and our text which should have been interpreted to mean, merely a comment by someone who was lamenting the loss of chatters across all chat lines and was actually complimenting koach.com.