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Chatiw

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Chatiw Reviews Summary

The company's reputation is significantly marred by persistent complaints regarding its platform's functionality and moderation practices. Customers frequently report issues such as arbitrary bans, poor chat functionality, and a prevalence of scammers and inappropriate content, creating an unsafe environment. While a few users express enjoyment in making connections, the overwhelming sentiment highlights frustration with the site's management and lack of adequate customer support. The overall impression suggests a need for substantial improvements in moderation, user safety, and technical performance to enhance customer satisfaction and restore trust in the platform.

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18
shipping
9
returns
9
quality
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New York
1 review
111 helpful votes
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Chatiw is flooded with pedophiles and scammers. Reporting people does nothing and they don't seem to care about privacy on this website.

Date of experience: August 9, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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VERY GOOD
August 7, 2022

This site is very casual,
Only problem very hard to stop scammers fakes an underage, also guys trying to be woman to scam you out of your hard earned money, so beware don't get sucked in for the sob story's. ( my mother in hospital aan iv no money for food an electric, o
Or il come an visit you if you send money for journey, or loads hookers want 300£ to spend the night with you,
Oh I'm at airport an cant get through customs till I pay my fine, £600,)
THESE ARE ALL FAKES SCAMMERS

Date of experience: August 7, 2022
France
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Avoid at all cost
June 29, 2022

Absolutely worst type of man possible on this site. 95% are married. 95% are looking for lewd chat. 99.9% are very unattractive physically, semi illiterate, unintelligent and very, very dull to interact with.

Date of experience: June 28, 2022
NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The rules of the site state that:
"- Users with an inappropriate name will be banned from this site.
- Conversation non respected will banned."
It also says:
"! Use BLOCK BUTTON, it will help us keep the chat clean.
Use block button, it will help us to keep the chat clean, Thanks."
Yet there are paying VIPs with names such as DOMforU.
Beyond this, the general chat is filled with names such as iRapeuNSA or UApicsfor$ and K9gifsSwap.
There are clearly NO MODERATORS. If there are, THEY ARE PEDOPHILES, RAPISTS, and SEXUAL DEVIANTS of the most depraved ilk. (And there are plenty of scammers on the site as well.)
I DON'T EVEN NEED TO MENTION HOW USELESS THE SITE IS IN RELATION TO GLITCHES, LAGGING, FREEZING AND CRASHING. THE FACT THAT IT IS OVER-RUN WITH THE LOWEST SCUM OF 'HUMANITY' SAYS ENOUGH.

Date of experience: June 18, 2022
Nigeria
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Please one more chance please I you please just allow me use this app for one last time promise to use good name

Date of experience: June 16, 2022
District of Columbia
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Used to be an enjoyable and active site but it has been overrun for a couple years now and the site owner/admins have no idea or no interest in fixing it. It's dead.

Date of experience: May 24, 2022
Mississippi
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Sickening site
May 21, 2022

This site is definitely filled with sick perverted men and pedophiles most people are bots most of the men on chatiw are rude obnoxious sociopaths who feel entitled to your body and the privacy of it this site needs to be taken DOWN ASAP.

Date of experience: May 20, 2022
North Carolina
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Its not a bad app
May 20, 2022

Chatiw isn't a bad app my main problem with it is that it randomly ip bans me for no reason. I mainly use the site to make friends (and I've made a lot) but it always wants to ip ban me for apparently (looking at to many profiles) I think they need to just fix they're moderation system

Date of experience: May 20, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Why block me
April 24, 2022

Been banned from chat all because asked for pic they said they would be barred if sent one totally unfair I thought it was child let me back on

Date of experience: April 24, 2022
California
1 review
7 helpful votes
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I've been using chatiw for about six years now, and the amount of pedophiles i've met is absolutely horrid. Many of them have sent me actual, real life childporn, (to which i've reported to cybertipline.org). Not to mention the fact that most folks on the site are violently bigoted, whether theyre racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. i spoke to one of the coders of the site and they told me that they specifically made it easy for children to access. If you get banned, all you need to use is a VPN, and you can put "UA" in your name to let all the child predators know that you wanna be preyed upon. It needs to be shut down

Date of experience: April 19, 2022
GB
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Unusable
November 9, 2021

This site is completely unusable, with constant time outs, non-functional chat history and unreliable blocking. On top of that, you can be barred from having a 'rude' chat name, but this doesn't stop some utter filth being used by some people. I wouldn't recommend this site to anyone.

Date of experience: November 9, 2021
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Great site
November 8, 2021

There is always men looking for "fun" no matter where you go. That doesnt mean you have to look for "fun" to chat on chatiw. I only have platonic chats, and I let the perves know, or I tell them "luck in your search".
Some like to use it as a dating site, I use it as a chat site. Yes with free sites, there is issues, you want no issue create your own free site. There are always scammers, to avoid them stay on the same site you met them, don't give out personal information. It is an anonymous chat site, and if you need to be anonymous you can find people on there who are the same, but people don't want what they fit.
Yes there are guy always asking for pics, you don't have to send just tell them no. You don't have to view their pics, I don't.
Men if you want to know how women are treated in life by men and what men think of women, log in as a female, you don't need to reply to the guys just read what they say, remember it isnt all men. No one can see you, no one will know who you are, don't be scared guys give it a try.
Women you can do the same, and see how long it takes to a man to receive a reply from a female.
Married females will have a great time, more so the females who are in a rut in their marriage, it will remind you what is out there and may cause you to appreciate the man you have.
Like all chats sites, dating sites, social sites, there is always men trying to use them for "fun". That is life, it is the same offline.
You meet someone face to face they make a "fun" offer, or you exchange numbers and they make a "fun" offer on the phone, or you go out on a date and they make that "fun" offer. Online is the same as offline meetings, for females and males. What you find in real life is the same as you find online, except more to go through.

Date of experience: November 7, 2021
Greece
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Should not exist
October 25, 2021

The worst site ever made. Bots all over the place. Server crashes constantly. Cannot chat at all.
You should put a sub rating as well.

Date of experience: October 25, 2021
Rhode Island
1 review
8 helpful votes
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There is absolutely no way to continue a conversation after a few PMs. Without fail it stops working and then crashes totally resetting everything. There is also no shortage of fake accounts to help waste your time and seize up the site. The dev's should be ashamed allowing this gatbage

Date of experience: October 6, 2021
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Pathetic
September 10, 2021

Your site sucks It's slow, it jams, it doesn't upload pictures, Used to be good now it's pathetic. Fix it

Date of experience: September 9, 2021
Malaysia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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A total garbage
July 25, 2021

This is so awful, everytime its just crash, crash crash and CRASH. It wont allow you to enjoy chatting because it's just crashing ALL THE TIME. Before this, it just took few seconds before I can normally use it, but this time it took more than 20 minutes to get working normally.

Date of experience: July 25, 2021
New York
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Once again while I was enjoying some clean conversations, the monitor broke into my chat and cut me off from those I was talking to. Mind you, there are planet ads from children stating they are under age, and there are many who advertise various sex sites, however I know the monitors do nothing to block them because the same user names appear time after time. Amongst all the trash there are a few diamonds, however the monitors are destroying this site.

Date of experience: July 6, 2021
GB
1 review
14 helpful votes
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I think they're using a vintage second hand Amstrad for their server. It freezes every thirty seconds for minutes at a time. It's impossible to have a flowing chat. You'll spend most of your time browsing YouTube to keep you amused whilst you wait for it to unfreeze. It's awful. They also ban you for no apparent reason.

Date of experience: June 5, 2021
Arkansas
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Pure evil
June 4, 2021

This site when it's working halfway right is the devil's playground and I wouldn't be surprised if satan himself was an admin! I only gave 1 star cause it wouldn't let me select no stars! ‘Nuff said!

Date of experience: June 4, 2021
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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It's run on the cheap. Its servers can't cope so it locks up every couple of minutes for several minutes. That's if the site isn't down. Also, they will ban you for no reason. You will also be inundated with fake messages from spammers promoted by the site.

Date of experience: June 3, 2021