Are Any Other Guide Bothered By All The Prank Searches Lately?

I am new. I just started two days ago. But I am honestly amazed at the number of prank queries. I am in training still. But I keep getting a lot of crazy search requests. It is very frustrating, because I am trying to learn the ropes and I certainly dont need people posting prank queries and the like.

Yes, I am a guide and annoyed by the pranks as well! Not only that but chacha is now researching our past searches and deactivating any accounts of people who went along with pranks or whatever. So now the guides are even having to pay for the pranks. Rude trainers are the reason if took me almost 50 searches to promote to pro! They were so rude and offered no help whatsoever! When I train others now I try really hard not to come off that way!

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one getting annoyed with all the pranks! I was on yesterday & the amount of people that were calling me obscene names was starting to get horrifying! I reported them all...but then that makes ChaCha look into my activity & if they feel I did 1 little thing wrong, I could be deactivated! I have had a few really rude trainers as well which is why I haven't added any new keywords in a while. But I try to be really nice when I'm training people. They're supposed to have a "rate the trainer" system in place soon. Hopefully that will solve some of the problems. Now if only we could get rid of the dumb pranksters.

It is very frustrating that people are doing prank searches and being very rude but I just keep telling myself that (hopefully) they'll all just get bored of doing the same thing every day and leave us alone. As far as the trainers go, I've never had a rude one and I myself do my best to train others so I can only hope that that doesn't last long. Hang in there!

oh yeah i so know what you mean. last weekend i kept getting this one search for weird al. i got the search like 5 times, i thought maybe it was the same person, but i know it wasnt. they all wanted something different, all were pranks. it was getting really annoying. also with trainers, i had a trainee like a week ago, and he was just out right rude. i told him to hold on cause i needed to look at the last result he had (my daughter also woke up and i had to put the bunky back in her mouth) and he thought i was trying to milk it for more time. well for one it had been 10 mins.. why the hell would i milk for more time when we only get paid for 6 mins now!

I'm also a chacha guide. I'm at master level. I have noticed trainers that milk the system and/or are impatient, rude, and impolite. If I find trainers behaving this way, I just make sure there are no results and end the session. When I am training other guides, I talk immediately. I do not wait for the other guide to say hi so I can milk the system. I say, "Hi. What is your guide level?". Then wait for their response. Then ask them to find information on their keyword. While they are finding it, I tell them to let me know if they have any questions. If it's a new guide, I spend a little longer with them to make sure they understand and comfortable with the guide application. ChaCha needs to do something about the time limit so we are not working for free. That's what I am concerned about. We should get paid for our efforts.

I can not imagine how annoyed you are. I just hit Pro level and in the last 15 minutes I have declined at least 8 prank searches. I don't understand why anyone would even bother playing pranks on someone who isn't in front of them.

Ok, I was getting mad about all the pranks....but I've decided I'm gonna deal with it & have fun on ChaCha. LOL I just say all kinds of stupid stuff & tell them to stop being an idiot & then say "bye". LOL I haven't gotten in trouble for it. So this is how I'm going to handle it. They think they're gonna get on ChaCha & make all the guides look like idiots while they're playing their games...well, I'm going to make them look like idiots 1st. That's how I'm handling this whole prank thing.

I am also new to Cha Cha and have been discouraged at the amount of prank search requests. It is clear to me that somewhere some kids are home with nothing else to do. The thing that bothers me the most was the rude trainers. I thank you for the tip on not having results and closing out so they can not rate you. I got my first bad rating today and it was a prank of course. I did not know about deleting the results then closing out. I thank you for that. Good luck, and they did start the rate the trainer yesterday (yeah!)lol