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Have You Noticed Less Fakes?
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Have You Noticed Less Fakes? |
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We voted no, but not because we see a lot of fakes. We'd noticed significant improvement since before March 26. Any improvement since March 26 is only noise in the longer term trend.
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3/31/2010 7:07 pm |
We noticed less fakes, but there are still the real people that have their profile on Affairlook and are to afraid to meet. So is that still considered to be fakes????
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I think this question pertains more to the men. I haven't noticed many fakes on my blog, or in profiles. "Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." 
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We get plenty cruising through the FL room. That's not even including the women and men pretending to be someone they're not. Nothing you can do about random jackasses. The only thing I HAVE to do is eat, shit, and die. Everything else is a choice.
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Keep it up man, I'm still getting marriage proposals from caucasian chicks residing in Ghana, looking for a guy who is honest, loving and a soul mate...I happen to be neither in all respects 
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nice work- have you looked into the idea of requiring cell phone text message to confirm new accounts ? this would prevent a single person from creating many fake accounts. This would be so simple to implement and is very effective method of validating who someone is and in your case, preventing multiple signups.
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The only true way to stop most of these spammers, scammers, and fake profiles is to isolate and ban their IPs from accessing the site. In the case of those from Africa, sans Ghana and the like, is to cut those country's ISPs off completely. Your IT crew should have no problem in accomplishing this.
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Hiya Ryan, I do not know if my moaning has inspired this attempt but this is what I talked about in e-mails with you... it is not that I expected to snap my fingers and fake profiles to be fixed, I just wanted to know some answers to the questions I asked and to have a visible site reaction to fake profiles as they seem to create profiles with impunity. I have voted 'no'... the reason for this is because there are so many! I have noticed more photo-fake profiles, where obvious soft porn shoot pictures are used. I have noticed our friend who creates profiles with a suggestive name followed by a jumble of numbers is still present but has changed aspects of their profile creation (i.e. used to use same local information and age - 23, well now the local information is less consistent and the age is now 20, the profiles continue to be produced) and I can still spot African posing as Anglo-saxon profiles (women who are looking for 'the one', whose syntax is bad and likes ridiculous things and is 'a good god fearing woman'). I have noticed a large increase in the number of winks that I get from Australia, Phillipines, Ukraine, Russia, American fake - which is 18-23 year olds who come from LA area and seem pretty interested in me. One reason why I can say that I have not been able to find fake profiles as easily is because my home page has changed. I now have a 'Whats on your mind?' box... which appears only to me (where does that get displayed where other people other than me can see it?). This has been introduced at the expense of 'My New Matches'... which used to display profiles that were, approx, 75% fake. The... er... fight(?) against fake profiles and their prolificacy means that a weeks effort by the site probably would not make much of a dent, the rot has been allowed to go on too long, however I do not care... I am happy, because the start has been made and it is good that the site has listened and started to react and if this effort that you talk of can be continued then we might start getting somewhere. Thanks. LT.
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One reason why I can say that I have not been able to find fake profiles LESS easily... is what I meant.
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About the two comments of "are people who are afraid to meet fakes too?" and "people that don't answer emails/flirts are fakes". Guess what.. because I get OVER 100-150 messages A DAY and MOST haven't even READ my profile... i.e. the married men/out of state and country men/and guys that want to shove crap up my ass men... ALL send me stuff and I REFUSE to fuck married out of state/coutry men that want to shove something up my butt men.. DOES NOT MAKE ME FAKE!! There are some very SCAREY PEOPLE out there and we DO have reason to be cautious on meeting people!!! Please.. feel free to read my blogs and see just how RUDE some of these so called 'real men' are when we take the time to POLITELY say "no thank you" and they get all p*ssy then because they feel 'entitled' to screw me because this is a 'sex site' or at least that is their normal answer. Because someone does NOT WISH to be slammed again for a 'no thank you'.. because someone does not feel obligated to say "HEY.. my profile says NO to married men" or whatever the preference is because personally.. I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME to answer 150 emails A DAY....and should not HAVE TO repeat 'no married men' and give them a personal rejection... does NOT make me or anyone else fake. Seriously.. nothing says we 'have to put out' in order to be real. If you were a door to door salesman and no one was home, would you sit on the porch and wait for them to get there only to be told no thank you?? or would you go to the next house and continue on?? It doesn't make anyone FAKE!! Here are the blogs.. please feel free to take a look for yourself. Again.. I don't think that some of the crappiest emails SENT deserve answers if all they can say is "I will f*ck you".... which is a major part of the messages women get on here. #1...Best Complimentary Emails wupdates #2...Emailslame, boring, or just plain stupidwupdates #3...A polite No Thank You can cause thiswupdates #4...Unsolicited HATE Emails no prior contactwupdates I am NOT angry, but I do feel that most men don't get what the women have to go through on here with the pressure to put out because of the way this site advertises. A box full of dick shots (which all look the same after the first hour) and "wanna f*ck" is NOT a real attention getter when that is the majority of all we get. I KNOW seriously that the men have a VERY hard time on here as well. I DO feel for you. But honestly, meeting and getting laid are NOT a factor in if someone is REAL and no one should feel pressured or obligated to meet and/or f*ck ANYONE on here.
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AS FOR THE INCREASE IN THE FLIRTS SITUATION I.E. GHANA GIRLS... I will again (sorry) repeat that much of this CAN be cut down if you can give US the option to our flirts/invites. Right now they are just anyone and everyone can send them to anyone and everyone. If you give the options to have these choices.. A - Accept all flirts. B - Accept only flirts that match my Cupid Settings. C - Do not accept any flirts. I do believe it WILL help. I mean, if someone has their cupid settings set up so it narrows it down to receive messages from only what they are interested in.. why then would you NOT want your flirts to be the same? I honestly can say that I am not happy with 70 year old men wishing to have me... so they are blocked out by the cupid settings. I would think that they should NOT be allowed to flirt with me either and it should be connected to the cupid settings as well. IF you have this in place, men can actually then choose B and have their cupid settings say not to accept them from people outside a certain distance and it would totally cut OUT those from overseas i.e. GHANA!!
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Nope Ryan, still seeing them, without the numbers on their handles, but that is a dead giveaway. Things like a picture of a black woman saying their Caucasian on their profile, and vice versa. Other stuff too. Still a lot of weeding to do. You should give people points or something for reporting them, to give some incentive to use our time to do so. ~  ~
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And another thing, I have reported obvious fake handles in the advice line that have their profiles turned off, that harass people. They are mainly voting handles also, and the only time it has ever done any good for me to report one, is when one of them made the mistake of stealing my picture and used it on one of their fake handles. Other than that it was a waste of my time in doing it obviously because those same handles I've reported are still active so to speak, but like I said, their profiles are turned off. Give us an incentive to report, and then really look at it. Other than that I won't waste my time in doing it. ~ ~
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4/1/2010 7:26 am |
I've noticed the number of the viewers going down... like in a hurry, I suppose it's because of the deletion you're talking about.... I haven't had a lot of fakes, maybe one or two... so not a problem for me. I only answer to e-mails received from gentlemen, not responding to flirts, unless I know them from before. Keep going, you have ways to go!! An on going problem if you want to know what I think, it will never be resolved. Happy people, don't have everything; they make the most of everything coming along their way.
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I want to agree and second JFK's suggestion... if you were to provide 5 points per successful fake reported then I reckon that the site would clean itself... and the process would happen much quicker, you would also reward those who were not fake with the very currency which they could use to make contact and do all the other things that would make Affairlook/Passion more successful... Suggest it to someone Ryan! Even if it was only for a limited time (say one week - bag a fake week!).
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Oh (sorry) and I forgot to mention the women who wink at me and give themselves geographically challenged... so they will list their location as something like Milton Keynes, London. Which is like saying that you live in Philadelphia, Washington DC... I get alot of those type.
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Sadly they will be back somehow, my movements around the site seems to get to the real people but that does mean that I have stopped using parts of the site due to the high number of fakes that seem to be more noticeable in smaller areas like mine.
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I did notice a lull, but yesterday frequent flirts from fakes started again. There are some good ideas suggested here like awarding points for reporting screen names that are then validated and removed as fakes, only one standard ID per computer, and a text message code to activate an account. Given the massive volume of the problem I would implement all three. While it is important to remove the fakes (typically women), it is equally important to keep and grow the number of real women on the site. You could go along way in this regards by eliminating the "Hooker" sister site, making some refinements of the advertising campaign and maybe including some guidelines to the terms so that folks realize that sending every woman on the site a "Wanna Fuck Tonight" email is grounds for being booted      
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I really don't get allot of fakes... I guess they target men. Susie... 
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AS FOR THE INCREASE IN THE FLIRTS SITUATION I.E. GHANA GIRLS... I will again (sorry) repeat that much of this CAN be cut down if you can give US the option to our flirts/invites. Right now they are just anyone and everyone can send them to anyone and everyone. If you give the options to have these choices.. A - Accept all flirts. B - Accept only flirts that match my Cupid Settings. C - Do not accept any flirts. I do believe it WILL help. I mean, if someone has their cupid settings set up so it narrows it down to receive messages from only what they are interested in.. why then would you NOT want your flirts to be the same? I honestly can say that I am not happy with 70 year old men wishing to have me... so they are blocked out by the cupid settings. I would think that they should NOT be allowed to flirt with me either and it should be connected to the cupid settings as well. IF you have this in place, men can actually then choose B and have their cupid settings say not to accept them from people outside a certain distance and it would totally cut OUT those from overseas i.e. GHANA!! 
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Oh yes you can get A F F in public libraries. I always did back when I used one frequently. Most libraries have a room for the kids and another for the adults where the blocks are taken off as to access anything but hardcore pornography, so your argument is not realistically an applicable one.  ~ ~
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We could not see much difference as there are too many profiles on this site for any single individual member to get an idea of what really goes on BUT it is really nice to know that A F F is taking an active look at this. But it should be easy for A F F to use its vast IT resources to see where spammers and fakes are coming from. Go for it. The more its cleaned up the better.
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HI Ryan, I think that there has been a small improvement in the last week, but could you make to reporting a little easier, I reported a fake for profile violation (an email address in the profile), but had to write a reason for the violation, where just looking at you can see the violation. and yes I am a major target, around 20 a day
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