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1. Again goofing off, creating useless polls? I’ll bet your boss is really proud of you, Sarah! Yahoo! chat is overrun by porn bots and you’re sitting here wondering if messenger is more used during the week than on weekends? You DO have better uses of your time. You should be fired for the sad state that chat is in….you have no sense of priorities…maybe you’re taking kickbacks from the porn industry, what little they make off of ruining chat! (I’ll bet you’ll be a coward and censor this…I’d bet the farm on it…you always censor your detractors!)

   Comment by Tim — August 21, 2009 #

2. Quite rude of you Tim, but I totally agree on the censoring part.

   Comment by Luucky — August 21, 2009 #

3. I find it frustrating when in my yahoo page and I enter Yahoo messenger to make a call from my PC, I cannot. The icon takes me into the download environment for which I am not interested. I just want to click an icon to make a pc telephone call. Why is yahoo complicating this? Just to even make a simple PC telephone call, one is taken through a maze of services and ultimately I lose interest. Then if that is not enough we are experiencing disonnections no more different than drop calls. And we have followed all the protocols to avoid disconnections. Meaning we have latest version and do not use firefox.

   Comment by MG — August 21, 2009 #

4. Wow, that was harsh, Tim. What’s the harm in a fun little poll? It probably took less time for her to create the poll than you took writing your comment, so who cares?

   What I don’t understand is why a poll like this is necessary. Shouldn’t Yahoo have empirical statistics that tell them what days people IM more? I’d actually be much more interested in that than what people SAY they do.

   In fact, I’d like to see unique IM users by day, as well as # of IMs by day. Even better, break it down by time of day, or region, or age group. That would be more useful.

   Comment by Jeff Hester — August 21, 2009 #

5. @Tim, I Couldn’t agree more!

   It’s a shame, because this and your post are bound to be censored, as with all my other constructive comments.

   I hope that some day, this contempt for users ends and Yahoo! start to listen. Only today, it’s reported they trail behind many other leaders in customer service – it’s simple, Yahoo! don’t listen, and have third rate customer services who send random answers and close tickets.

   Comment by BaconAndEgg — August 21, 2009 #

6. [...] participa la acest poll : A quick poll for the weekend . Weekend [...]

   Pingback by Y!Messenger de weekend : Instant Messaging & Games – Mobile & PC — August 21, 2009 #

7. WTF @ Tim

   Some of the people who use Yahoo chat that castigate Sarah on a regular basis have no idea how foolish they look. Firstly, it’s a free service, you’re in no position to make demands. Secondly, it’s just chat — not life support. It’s ridiculous reading about people who are constantly whining about the quality of chat as though it were the lifeline to their only social exposure.

   Comment by stfu already — August 21, 2009 #

8. Tim if your so booooooored! post your own pooooooooll! like “how many idiots like or voted for the obamination of us all?” that might be more up your ally or did I miss your point completly?

   Comment by richard — August 21, 2009 #

9. This is about IM not chat.

   Of course Yahoo! knows about usage trends, probably in incredible detail, but perhaps this was to provoke some self reflection.

   I’m surprised by how many people use IM more during the weekend.

   Comment by Ben — August 21, 2009 #

10. I use my IM 7×7. No difference to me whatsoever whether it is a Monday or a Friday. I use it to keep in touch with my family.

    Comment by Henryk — August 21, 2009 #

11. @ tim

    you may be 100% right. But “stfu” is 101% right.

    Comment by mike — August 24, 2009 #

12. Right on, Tim.

    Chat is a function of Messenger, so this is the appropriate place to express one’s opinion about it. No, it isn’t life support but neither are all the apps and frivolous bells and whistles Next Great Thing that Yahoo keeps coming up with while ignoring on-going and persistent problems.

    One thing is certain: we’ll never see a poll asking what we think of Chat. They know it’s c r a p. They just don’t care.

    Comment by mal_igned — August 26, 2009 #

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