The dreaded filter and the unusable chat facility. | kecodger's Blog

It is practically impossible to send anyone a message of reasonable length, I've found, because there is some sort of unbelievably stupid automated filter that blocks them, on the vague off chance that someone might be sending something that the recipient might find offensive. Even though they have exchanged messages with each other several times and neither of them have set their filters to block adult content or anything and people can always block messages from any given individual if they choose to. Bearing in mind the fact that the filter can't actually tell what the messages contain because it's an automated program of some kind which can't actually read. What on earth is the point of that? And what is all this about people being unable to exchange email addresses all about? Set up a messaging service that no one can really use to any useful extent and prevent them exchanging the addresses of services that they can????????????? The chat facility is completely unusable in my experience, you can click away forever and nothing happens. I'm not the only person experiencing these difficulties, other people have commented on them in the very brief messages that have managed to get through. Is it all deliberately designed to be unusable in order to encourage people to sign up to the advanced membership, or whatever it's called, at a cost? If so; it has the reverse effect on me, sort out all the technical difficulties and I might consider it, I certainly won't unless things improve and I think I will probably stop using the site at all if they don't. Which is a great shame as I have "met" some really nice interesting people here.