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BU
Bunny
I'm ogo staff
I'm a mod on chatogo and will admit some of the reviews here do touch base on some issues,and people are banned unfairly I know for a fact, I also think some of the reviews are previously banned people feeling hard done by, which I understand, there is lots that could be improved but lots of the mods are young and have no experience, we are told what to do by people that I suspect have little more experience than a lot of us tbh but I admit there is room for improvement some rules here are fr stupid but we don't write them only enforce them
For obvious reasons I'm not giving my username although some might guess hehe
TH
TheDude
Fr bad ngl
Fr bad ngl
child mods why are all the mods kids?
awful and incompetant,threatened with mutes for questioning rules,never question the rules here you will get muted or maybe even worse ,nice welcome,thanks,alienated almost instantly
positives.
1.its an pretty chill user interface
Negatives
Rules,rules,rules,some more rules with a side order of rules
only thing the staff care about is rules from what i saw lasted less than an hour before deciding to leave
its crazy stupid its no wonder theres very few adults use this site its all cringy teens.
id give it a zero if i could
AP
Aila P.
I actually found really good friends on…
I actually found really good friends on there, the rules are strict an some mods are interesting people but other than tht it's a really good site for like teens
LB
Liam B.
Horrible conditions, run by child predators
Staff that would rather talk to minors than do their job, more pedos than roaches in New York, several active CP traders, and general poor performance net this a 1 star. Keep yourself and kids away was threatened with bans if I called out behavior on site
OS
Oscar
room for lots of improvement
I would deffo question the person saying the bad reviews r false
some might be altho to my mind banned people or people bypassing mutes or whatever would have better things to do than leave bogus reviews,it requires far to much effort as ive found out leaving this one,i don't leave reviews other than the odd amazon review
I was banned for absolutely no reason at chatogo and speaking with someone on another site that uses it they told me that is very common, the staff if they can be called that are very trigger happy and ban people all the time,in my case i was told banned for bypassing a ban...which shocked me and made me laugh as ive never used the site before,with the exception of people using VPN's it would be very easy to check IP addresses and comfirm id never used the site before,its not exactly rocket science is it,but clearly the people that think they are running this site well have absolutely no idea what they are doing,i would guess many people here are banned unfairly
Could be a good site if it was run better,so its a shame
It also didnt go unnoticed that some of the mods are very rude,and will happily break some of the rules themselves but have the nerve to warn others about breaking them! the rule list which is massive btw and features some very stupid rules,some are actually pretty cringey,i certainly saw mods enforcing rules im positive they just made up,its very bad imo
My advice is re think the site and impliment better moderators
AL
Aleksander
Good safe for work site.
Rules a bit strict but given that it's a sfw site makes sense, most negative reviews appear to be banned bypassers and pedos being salty and simply lying about this site, which I have been on 2 years and have never seen an undeserved ban nor have been unfairly punished. (I originally forgot a rule or two and got muted) Also, the appeals email works now, checked it myself, talked with the owner on it, so you can appeal the bans. (Which are almost certainly all for good reason)
BA
BaldTyres
Possibly the worse run chatsite online rn
I have used the site a few times,won't be using it again.
Very very very badly moderated
I was warned by one of the 'child' mods for calling a bot the C word
A very low level infringement on any chatsite,not here,i got warned,even though it was a bot,bots don't have feelings,it was almost a joke but clearly no mods at chatogo have a sense of humor,the owner obviously wants puppet mods that will do exactly as they say,probably why most are children
Then another user said' STFU,yr a guest,all guests are pedos'
This recieved no warning whatsoever the mods in the room actually defended this person and told ME not to cause drama,if i hadnt actually witnessed this for myself,i would think i had been dreaming.
The mods see fit to interpret the rules as they see fit,and if a friend or registered user is involved they will side with them,guest users are treated extremely badly here
This place is SCREAMING out for proper moderation,from mature adults that know what they are doing,i wasnt even able to try and get them to see my point,as i was threatened with further warnings and threats of being muted,even though id done nothing wrong,these idiots have no comprehension of how damaging calling someone a pedo is,especially when these accusations are unfounded and without merit.
The owner should be appalled and embarassed at how they allow this site to be run.
Do not use this site,i really can't recomend it
i use a few chatsites and this is hands down the worse site ive used in a very long time
creating an account just to leave a review tells you a lot,but after my experience i felt compelled to write one,if it stops just one person being treated like i was then it has been worthwhile
Look elsewhere for a chatsite there are many outthere