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Bingo Chat Moderators - Bingo Article

When you play online bingo you have the option as to whether you want to stay in the chat room and join in the fun or play ‘dark’. At most sites during specified periods there will be a Chat Moderator (CM) sometimes called Chat Host (CH) who will be overseeing the chat room to ensure that everyone has an enjoyable experience. So what is a CM and what do they do?

A CM is normally an ex-bingo players who have now chosen to work in the online bingo industry as a moderator so they have first hand experience as to what it is like to play in the bingo rooms. One of the benefits of a CM is that you can work from the comfort of your own home so there is no need to get dressed up to go out to work.

One of their main roles is to monitor the chat in the bingo room to ensure that there is no foul or abuse language being used. Thankfully this is a very rare occurrence as on the whole chat in the bingo rooms is normally laid back and relaxed. Many players make strong friendships in the chat rooms and you often get to hear about player’s news, good and bad from pregnancies to a death in the family. In fact, at many sites these players strike up real friendships and have arranged to meet up in the ‘real world’.

A CM is also there to answer player’s questions regarding the site from questions about when the progressive jackpots are played and how to win them, what bonuses are available when you fund your account to what special promotions may be on offer and any other question a player may have. If for some reason the CM is unable to answer your question they will point you in the right direction as to where to go to get the answer whether it’s to go into the help room or send an email to the support staff.

From a player’s point of view an important part of a CM’s job is the running of chat games in the bingo rooms as this gives players the chance to win some bonus loyalty points if they win which they can then redeem to use as bingo money. At most sites there will be a different chat game played every hour, some are won if you are the bingo game winner and others are interactive and are won if you are the first player to claim. There is normally a page of the bingo sites home page explaining the rules of the various chat games that could be played at the site.

At the start of the game the CM will let players know the rules of the chat game and will explain how it works for players who do not understand how to play the game. Below are some of the more popular chat games around:

Quiz/Trivia

This is popular with some players and fills other players with dread… The CM will type a question in the chat box and the first bingo player to type the correct answer will generally win although some sites have variations and it’s the 2nd 3rd 4th etc player who answers correctly will win.

Upper Buddy/Lower Buddy

Most sites have a version of this chat game. If the winner of the pattern game or the full house prize in 90 ball game is in the chat room then the player above or below them will receive the loyalty points.

Races

Players have to pick a B number (from 1 to 15) at the start of the game and must get all 5 numbers across that line (B,I,N,G,O) so if you pick #1 you would need 1,16,31,46 and 61. The first player who gets all 5 numbers and claims will receive the loyalty points.

Poker

The player who wins bingo will then play this chat game when the next game of bingo starts. The amount of loyalty points that a player will receive will depend on what the first 5 numbers out are.

For example, EXAMPLE: B2, O65, G55, B8, I24 so they would receive 1000 loyalty points

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