Ghostchatter and The Haunted Diary Website

www.ghostchatter.com must be closed down.

This site was originally set up to help others share their stories and personal experiences on the paranormal activity in their homes. The rules of the site state they are 'serious' about the paranormal and they included a chatroom which is basically used to flame, abuse, bash, embarrass, belittle, accuse, attack and bully the chatters.

Upon entry to the room, a profile must be created within 20 seconds, literally, or you are BANNED! This is no exaggeration. Many chatters have entered and had the countdown by the hosts and members alike. When a chatter is banned, the whole room erupts in applause to the hosts for banning yet another innocent victim. One suggestion of you being a writer or a serious paranormal investigator in your profile, and the hosts attack unmercifully. They've accused many chatters of being there to spy, spam or steal material on many many occasions. Any giving out of email addresses - banned. Any chatting about topics other than what THEY want to hear - banned. Any suggestion of your personal life - banned. Chatters are asked to donate to the site to keep it going, which isn't allowed on a non-commercial site such as this. They are also asked to make donations in the chatroom once the hosts are confident they can trust people. The list goes on and on..

The site itself is promoting merchandise, ie t-shirts, sweaters, mugs and caps. One of the terms of use with MSN is no business links should be linked to the group. The merchandise is sold to keep the site and chatroom going, it's a form of business. Another breach of MSN contract. If upon entry, the hosts don't like your nickname or think you may be there to spam, they attack that person, throwing accusations their way and once they've had their bit fun, they ban the member indefinately. The ban is being thrown out of the room without the chance to defend yourself, then shown a huge dustbin/trashcan with the words BANNED splashed across the screen. Its undignified and disgraceful for adults to be behaving in this manner to people who go into the room for a serious chat on paranormal activities.

The subject in the room has got to be something the hosts believe in, otherwise members are grilled about why they believe something which isn't proved. Orbs is a big no-no subject even though they are unexplainable, ie paranormal. Chatting about Ouija boards is forbidden. This is supposed to be a 'safe haven' for people to chat about their experiences. Many ex chatters to the site have claimed their PC has crashed soon after being banned from the ghostchatter site. Many allegations of 'hacking' have been made against these hosts.

They also have access to your IP address, which they claim to use as a way of knowing who has been banned. As far as UK law goes, anyone storing IP addresses to use as 'evidence' is illegal.

There are also claims of emails being passed forward and back with details ammended to suit the hosts. The sole purpose of this is to cause harrassment between members and distrust each other. Any swapping of email addresses is forbidden. The hosts will not allow members to become friends with each other off the boards or out of the chatroom. Paranoia plays a big part in the reasoning for no swapping of email addresses and whispers being turned off in the chatroom.

This room and the website are linked to an MSN group which is against MSN's ToU. MSN have been informed and are investigating the claims. There is copyright material posted in this MSN group and the artists have been informed. On the message boards there's flaming and bashing going on constantly. The managers of the group/owners of the site are basically bullies. If a subject is posted which they don't agree with, they get their chatters to go into that group and flame the member responsible, so they don't have to take responsibility should the site be reported.

The site has been reported many times, as has the MSN group. Neither companies are taking action yet until evidence can be given to the illegal activities going on here.

This petition is therefor created to give MSN and Go Daddy evidence of past members who have been abused and attacked in the group and site. We urge you to sign it with comments about the reasons why you were banned and anything you can add to show them exactly what's going on in the sites aforementioned. Ghostchatter.com must be closed down for the protection of innocent victims from which I personally deem to be nothing but paranoid bullies.

Thankyou