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Meandros
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Number of ratings9 Number of reviews8 Listens toOver 18 LanguagesEnglish, Spanish Listener sinceAug 25, 2021 Last activeover 6 months ago PathStep 33 People helped48 Chats172 Group support chats10 Listener group chats64 Forum posts113 Forum upvotes86
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Wellcome,

Meandros is the spanish word for meanders, those sharp curves that some rivers do, like they didnt want to go straight to the sea. Instead those rivers try to the left, then to the rigth, exploring and learning. Flowing slow, staring at the clouds and the stars, listening to the trees, talking with those rounded river stones that once were sharp. Without any hurry to meet the sea yet. The sea understands and acept both fast and slow rivers, those who go direct and those with meanders, like me.

My mother tonge is Spanish, but I understand english quite well. I may not be online much time, but I answer all chats with time. So If you dont mind talking offline, I will have plenty of time to talk with you.

Hugs. =)

Recent forum posts
How we can attend more members in less time with better quality
Site Updates / by Meandros
Last post
 September 11th, 2021
...See more Hello, I am a newbie listener in 7 cups, but I am starting to figure out some mechanics I would like to share with you. I am sure that they will sound familiar. Lets start with an example: A volunteer listener enters the site, wanting to chat to listen some members and be of some help. There are 20 members asking to be listened. The volunteer picks two of them in order to be sure of being able to give them a good quality chat if they both happen to want to talk. One of them seems a gosth chat, but hey... the listener will wait 10 minutes untill he closes that chat just in case. In that time the listeners attend the other chat. That member seems distracted and just type things like "yeah", "sure" or ask questions to the listener. Lets say that the listeners tries and tries for 30 minutes in that chat. In that time the listener already closed the first gosth chat and opened another chat. That new chat goes well for 10 minutes and then the member just disconect, goes afk or something like that. The listener again waits 10 minutes before closing the chat, and in that 10 minutes wont open other chat in order to guarantee a good quality. So after 30 minutes we have had 1 gosth chat, one disconected chat, and one distracted chat. And what happend with the members who really needed to be listened?... who knows.... What will happend with this listeners after months of experiencing this same kind of chats day after day? ... who knows... Uber, Didi, and most other companies that conect peer to peer have solved this in a very simple way. Lets use Uber as example: - Users can rate drivers. So bad drivers will be get out of the platform. - Drivers can rate Users. So bad users will get out of the platform. At the moment in 7 cups, members do rate listeners. So bad listeners can be spoted and get out of the platform. But listeners cant rate members. So bad members wont get out of the platform. There are certain rules that allow listeners to block and report really bad members, but there is no soft way to progressive detect bad members. Lets say any chat must end with a rating, the listener rates the member with 0 to 5 stars. And the member rates the listener in the same way. There are also some frecuently options to mark like "gosth chat" or went "afk" or "nice person" or watever. The site record the stars, the marked options and the IPs. As more listeners of different IPs mark the same things of the same member, that rate becomes trustworthy and more relevant. So a member who was marked as "disruptive" by 0 to 2 listeners may recieve no consecuence. Once marked by 3 to 5 listeners may get an automatic warning and some kind recomendation (maybe a link to a guide for disruptive people). Once marked by 6 to 10 listeners (specially if their IPS are of different countries) that member may become silenty delayed automatically so their request shows after some time of delay (1 minute, then 2 minutes... by 10 minutes that member is virtually banned, but by the slow delaying process most wont notice so wont create new accounts). The lesser the rating the bigger the delay. Once the rating goes higer the delay goes down until it disapear. Higthly rated members (people who are nice and respectful) may get priority on the list or even access to better rated listeners. All this can be do automatically. No people involved to review. What would happen? Well, good members would get to good listeners fast. Bad members and bad listeners would naturally leave 7 cups. Waiting times would be greatly reduced, listeners would have better experiences and thus they would stay longer so would attend more members so waiting times would be even greatly reduced. On the other hand, If 7 cups becomes a fun app to bother listeners and do some casual chat while being bored, real people needing to be listened wont reach listeners. Hope this will be of some help. Hugs.
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Gracias por la calma con la que sabes hablar y lo reconfortantes que son tus palabras ♡
I don't think I could have found a better listener for my situation if I had read 100 bios or more. Very calming demeanor, poignant questions, supportive, and truly felt I was being heard. With his help, I was able to untangle a lot of things in my mind allowing for clarity to come in and help the situation. I cannot say enough about how well he was able to handle the situation and help me find my way.
In love with how they handle the situation from the start I felt so Secure from the start
Estupendo. Amable y directo.
Really attentive listener. Patient and thoughtful.
Very good at listening empathetically
Ben Is a real cool cat, talked for an hour with this dude and he got me calmed down while I was going off the rails. Muchos gracias amigo.
Really good listener
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