Last Updated: October 5; see recent changes at end of post.

Hello, everyone! We're now back under new management, and are in the process of clearing a huge backlog of spam, as well as updating the information in the sidebar, rules, and menus. Thanks go out to those who have been reporting rule-breaking content; please continue to do so, and reach out to us by messaging the moderators if you see anything amiss.

We plan to get things back on track, and ensure the community remains free of scams and rule-breaking content. I'll try my best to explain the new changes (important bits in bold for those who don't want to read a boring wall of text), and am soliciting feedback from the existing community to ensure they are in everyone's best interest. None of this is set in stone, so any feedback, questions, concerns are welcome, please leave it either in the comments, or by messaging the moderators.

Rule changes effective immediately

• The no-selling rule will be strictly enforced: Any mention of exchanges for money or goods, or of commercial activities, will result in a ban. This is not the place to buy or sell camshows; you will get scammed if you try that here, so for your own sake, please head to r/Sexsells for commercial shows. Do not mention commercial or prohibited services for any reason, even to ask people not to respond with them; this can trigger our bot to ban you! Scammers will not read your post, so asking them not to spam you will not be productive. If you are banned by mistake, you may appeal the ban by replying to the ban message.
• Posts and comments containing or requesting contact info are now strictly forbidden. These are overwhelmingly being used by scammers to side-step account suspensions, and there are privacy and safety concerns to allowing people to include contact info in posts that we cannot verify is their own. Like most similar communities, we will not be allowing contact info to be posted publicly. Please specify if you'll be using a platform other than Skype (and see below for more on that), but the username must be exchanged in private, and your post cannot ask users to send their usernames. Attempts to circumvent this in any way will result in bans.
• Only posts seeking live video and voice calls are permitted here. If you're not willing to go on cam or on mic, please check the sidebar for the many other communities and resources that already exist for text-based chat. It is permissible (and recommended) to want to chat in text before going live, but posts seeking only textual conversations should be reported, and will be removed.
• Titles must now include some details on what you're seeking, and post content must include a minimum of 25 words. We may increase this to 50 words. We intend for this to ensure posts include enough information to be useful to those seeking, and to weed out low-effort posts and spam.
• Posting will be limited to once per 3 days (currently; we'll re-evaluate the time limit as post volume grows). This will allow everyone to get their fair share at posting, and avoid people spamming the same ad too frequently. It is likely we will reduce this to 24 hours once things are running smoothly.

Things We'd Like Your Feedback On

• Should we make location/time zone a requirement for post titles? A common challenge we've seen with people trying to arrange live chats is time zone differences; it's a little hard to call someone when you're asleep or at work most of the time they're awake. While not perfect—people have varying schedules and work different shifts—finding someone in the same time zone is a good starting point. Unless there are objections, we plan on making this requirement a new rule. We will not require locations to be more specific than time zone, to allow people the choice of keeping their location private, for safety and other reasons. Please let us know if you agree, disagree, or have a better suggestion.
• Should we continue to allow alternate cam/calling services, or keep this strictly for Skype? The status quo appears to be that a number of users are seeking chats on other services here; while this does kind of contradict the community name, we don't see any actual reason to limit people to just one service. If we allow multiple services, we may require app tags in post titles to help users find those on a compatible service; e.g., [Skype], [Zoom], [Discord], etc. We're leaning towards simply requiring such tagging rather than restricting what people can seek here, but let us know what you think in the comments or by messaging the mods.
• We plan to require users who publicly post or request photos to verify; this will remain optional for those without public photos, or sharing them only privately. We will also likely apply this to "unequal exchanges". This will allow everyone to confirm publicly-posted photos are recent and of the author, and prevent use of stolen and misleading photos. This feature is still in development, though you may reach out to us now if you want to try it out or give feedback. By "unequal exchanges", we mean arrangements such as where a post is seeking someone to go on cam for them, but is offering only still photos in exchange; due to the ease at which this activity can be used for scamming, and the improbable nature of so many accounts being unable to ever go live while being readily free to share photos, we feel it is warranted to require verification in these cases.

Planned New Features

• Search-by-timezone and search-by-R4R-tag are now available. Posts which include a rough location will be tagged with their timezone to make it easier to arrange live conversations. Your state/province and country is sufficient enough (e.g., #Uttar Pradesh, India), and those living in countries that don't span multiple timezones may put their country (e.g., #United Kingdom). You may also specify a timezone directly, e.g., #UTC-5. Flairs are already enabled and will appear on posts that include a location. Check out the top menu for the search options; keep in mind search results will be rather sparse until people actually start including this information in their post titles. Note that this search feature is not supported by the Reddit app, and will work only on a computer.
• Much better spam and scam filtering. Our team has developed an AI-based bot to combat the "NYC Catfish Queen", who has plagued this community for years. Our bot has been successful in removing the vast majority of this group's posts, as well as most other types of scams. Initial testing here seems promising as well; our automation is already catching even scam groups that our team has not previously seen before, and we'll continue working to improve its accuracy. Please be sure to report any scam posts that slip through, using the report button and by messaging the mods. Please do not comment on scam posts; false accusations made in public will result in a ban, and tipping off scammers hinders our ability to detect and combat them.
• We now allow users to choose to lock their posts. To do so, include the command !lock anywhere within the body of the post. Locked posts will get a comment by the automod reminding users how to contact the author; by default, posts will not be locked or commented, and this will remain an optional feature for those who do wish to allow comments. Locking doesn't affect a post's visibility or ranking in any way. Some people, particularly new accounts that may not be able to send chat messages, may prefer to respond in comments, but we leave it up to the author to decide if they want to allow these types of responses or not.

These are the ideas we are currently working on, but we are open to other suggestions as well if there are additional concerns we should address. Please leave your feedback in the comments. We will continue to update this post based on feedback and progress on introducing these features; updates will be added below.

Recent Updates

• We've added "unequal exchanges" as an additional trigger for the verification requirement. Due to an implausibly high number of accounts doing this, we are beginning to enforce the verification requirement for both this situation, and for accounts which are advertising commercial cam shows elsewhere; content/service sellers will be required to assert they understand the no-selling rule, and would be permanently ineligible to verify or post here again if they later break it.