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Stop fakes, time wasters

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Just a thought, a lot of profiles are created and then UNLOS, some very soon after joining...

Why don't FAB make it harder to do this, maybe make it compulsory to take out paid membership for the first period?

Personally, I think this would make this site more serious and get rid of the lonely wankers who are sat at home all day... IMO

Harry

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By *ugby 123Couple over a year ago
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O o O oo

You can't force people to stay if they don't want to

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Lonely wankers still have cash too..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Making people pay to join the site would put a lot of genuine people off as well as they may be dipping their toes in and not want to have to pay if they find its not for them, also 'fakes'have money too.

If it's causing issues you can block New profiles or those non verified from contacting yoh through your message filters which certainly help.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Totally agree. Also admin should use TinEye to identify all the stolen pics being used on here.. It works, as I've just found out!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Just a thought, a lot of profiles are created and then UNLOS, some very soon after joining...

Why don't FAB make it harder to do this, maybe make it compulsory to take out paid membership for the first period?

Personally, I think this would make this site more serious and get rid of the lonely wankers who are sat at home all day... IMO

Harry"

So you'd have a load of fakes and time wasters who'll stick around for a month or so because they've paid a fiver? I'd rather they went UNLOS much quicker than that.

And I imagine the extra fiver they'd pay wouldn't even begin to cover the extra admin costs, so how much extra would you be prepared to pay?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Totally agree. Also admin should use TinEye to identify all the stolen pics being used on here.. It works, as I've just found out!! "

Technically photo mods are supposed to check, but there are many, many, many pics to check and they after all un-paid volunteers.

But they dont always.. use your better judgement and report any pics that aren't following pic rules...

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By *lighty1Woman over a year ago

You Dont Need to Know, right now

Why don't FAB make it harder to do this, maybe make it compulsory to take out paid membership for the first period?

Harry"

Not an idea I would support. People need to be able to have a look round the site for free, to work out if it is what they are looking for. And it's not just saddos who go UNLOS soon after joining, there are very many single females who go UNLOS soon after joining, when their mailbox is swamped with messages. Do you really think it is fair to ask them to pay to be pounced on by hundreds of horny guys, before they've even had chance to find out how the site might work better for them.

If you are worried about fakes/timewasters, use all your filters. Filter out newbies, non-verifieds, no public pics, etc, so that they can't contact you. This will catch the majority of people who go UNLOS soon after joining, and then the site works the way you want it to.

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By *edangel_2013Woman over a year ago

southend

I had a fake account message me on a site that charges £25 a month, what makes you think £5 for 60 days is going to put people off?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I had a fake account message me on a site that charges £25 a month, what makes you think £5 for 60 days is going to put people off?"

I think it is the principle. Casual sex sites and dating sites are notorious for being full of automated profiles. The very hint of requiring money to join concerns people regardless of the sums.

You also have to bear in mind more unscrupulous providers say they charge one price and in fact charge another.

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By *litterbabeWoman over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

I wonder if any of the fakes actually arrange to meet each other, not realising the other one is a fake and then either nobody shows up or completely different people than what each profile expects show up!

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By *dwalu2Couple over a year ago

Bristol

But...all our meets have been with free members.

They seemed pretty real at the time!

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By *heRainManMan over a year ago

Warrington & Glasgow

"Totally agree. Also admin should use TinEye to identify all the stolen pics being used on here.. It works, as I've just found out!! "
It does work, BUT ... I posted this, in a similar thread, over a year ago and I haven't rechecked the pricing:

" For Fab to check the pics as they're submitted they'd have to use the Commercial TinEye services. Using the API costs $1500 per 30,000 lookups. There's been about 200 publicly viewable pics submitted in the last hour. So, ignoring private pics and, presuming that's an average, Fab would have to find an extra $78,000 (£48,759) a year!!!!!

I can't find the pricing, but I'm sure that Google Reverse Image Searching won't be free for Commercial use either! "

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