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too many fakes...solutions please

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By *iss_Behaving OP   Woman
over a year ago

manchester

have been on here for, well, a number of years....

The biggest problem of all is fake profiles... After that, its out of date ( not logged in for 6 months ) profiles..

Perhaps a way of sorting the honest profiles is to introduce a "must verify with a week" to become a member rule ?

Any profiles not logged within 6 months are auto placed into the "member has hidden profile" box...

Im not sure how this would all work, just think it would be a great idea, or a start at least.

views/opinions please ??...

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

nope.

lol

If I can meet no fakes, surely a woman or couple can do better...

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

Blimey that's me gone then ~ took me ages to find someone I liked enough to meet for just a drink...!

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

The auto hide after 6 months is definitely a sensible idea.

Delete if mot verified within a week? It would get rid of 99% of single male profiles if the number of "can't get a meet" posts are anything to go by.

Personally it wouldn't have affected me, as I had no problem getting meets, and would leave ratios looking much better etc. but rather harsh....and if there were not so many "extra" men here...then a lot of the ladies would leave and a spiral of decline would see rapid closure of the site.

Not sure you have thought through the consequences of such a drastic move.

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

lol then hardly here would be any single men. The demand and supply aint there for men so that's why, but a total cock fest for women

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"have been on here for, well, a number of years....

The biggest problem of all is fake profiles... After that, its out of date ( not logged in for 6 months ) profiles..

Perhaps a way of sorting the honest profiles is to introduce a "must verify with a week" to become a member rule ?

Any profiles not logged within 6 months are auto placed into the "member has hidden profile" box...

Im not sure how this would all work, just think it would be a great idea, or a start at least.

views/opinions please ??..."

apply message filters to filter out unverified members.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I've only had contact with one couple from the Nottingham area who agreed to meet me, then on the day of the meet went quiet. I won't meet any couple from that area now in case it's them under a different guise.

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

How would a profile not logged on for 6 months be a problem?

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

No it isn't a good idea, took me more than a week to meet someone and the single guys who are genuine would lose out by those who aren't and there'd be more single women then men

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

It took me 11 months before I had my first social/meet,

Ooh my 1 year anniversary in 3 weeks I should celebrate it

Even though it says I have been on here for over a year I only joined in January

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


"How would a profile not logged on for 6 months be a problem?"

And who's to say they are fake, they might be in the forces or locked up at her majestys pleasure

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

There isn't a solution .. in this game there will always be fakes and dreamers but there never has been and never will be a way to stop it. The solution is to listen to your gut instinct ... eventually you can spot a fake or a dreamer from a mile away - not always, but most times

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

I would simply say improve your selection process rather than imposing rules on others that would change how they used the site.

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

Looks like the OP is a fake - her profile isn't available for me to view .....

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

Definitely no. How would hiding profiles when not logged in for a period help?

We were on here for a while before we got a meet, maybe some just want to talk and socialise.

Verifications are useful, but but not perfect - we always check out who the veris are from too.

We haven't had loads of meets, but never yet entered into arrangements with a fake.

Most fakes are pretty easy to spot and fairly easily ed out. Phone calls, web cam etc, or not being able to comply with simple, reasonable requests.

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

I believe if women wouldn't be fussie, they could have loads of meets.

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


"I believe if women wouldn't be fussie, they could have loads of meets."

With you!

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


"I believe if women wouldn't be fussie, they could have loads of meets.

With you! "
Yes with me

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

It would never work, verified with in a week you would end up with men just coming back on new accounts every week.

Many people like to take sometime in choosing who to play with but this would cause a knee jerk reaction and people just meeting for meeting sake, hardly sounds like fun to me.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham


"No it isn't a good idea, took me more than a week to meet someone and the single guys who are genuine would lose out by those who aren't and there'd be more single women then men "

Sounds good to me

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By *o-jCouple
over a year ago

Outskirts of Notts

Maybe we should tell single men this isn't an easy shag site but a site for people that like to swing , saying that this is coming from a couple that haven't had a verified meet in over a year .

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

We get told we are fakes all the time (from men we say no thank you to) cos we only have two verifications on show !

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

Nothing to stop people being photo verified when they first sign up.

The photo verification should also include a date

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

I don't want to verify my account properly, mainly because I can deny its me if Im ever confronted by someone I know (paranoid much). I do prove that I'm actually real tho

Can't FORCE people into verifying, surly

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

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

Surely*** I also apparently can't spell

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

I get it all the time it's not good x

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"I would simply say improve your selection process rather than imposing rules on others that would change how they used the site."

Exactly! In seven years never had a no show, don't give or ask for verifications...site works for me...met my other half here!

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


"Nothing to stop people being photo verified when they first sign up.

The photo verification should also include a date"

Actually yes there is....no way im putting a face pic on here and have no intention sending a nude one either. Id be too afftonted

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


"How would a profile not logged on for 6 months be a problem?"

I couldn't figure that out either

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

To find solutions, we need to define a fake.

male pretending to be female or vice versa

Computer generated profile.

Remember there are many with multiple profiles, some use them as traps, someone saying one thing to one profile but another thing to the other...

I think a potential search featurfeature could be last logged on. Don't show those not logged on in the last 6 months, just as you can hide, age range, new etc

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


" I think a potential search featurfeature could be last logged on. Don't show those not logged on in the last 6 months, just as you can hide, age range, new etc"

Erm...that IS a search feature Those last on line will show up on the first few pages and any further back than that will have those that haven't logged on for a while. The number of pages will all depend on how many members in your area.

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By *heorgasmaddictMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

So many fakes recently. Best one was a "couple" I'd been talking to a few days. They ask if I want to meet that night at theirs - I say great! Can I have a face pic?

No. We don't have any here.

Can you text me one then?

No.

Yeah, I'll just go to a strangers house

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham


"Nothing to stop people being photo verified when they first sign up.

The photo verification should also include a date"

With a moderator , for a full initiation ?

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

I think that would be the quickest way to exponentially increase the number of fakes.

Someone who wants to create a fake profile is also someone who will create multiple fake profiles, then they can verify one profile from the other within the week, while someone genuine will come on here, take a look around reach out to a few people and may take months to actually meet.

So the genuine get removed while the fakes proliferate...

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


"Nothing to stop people being photo verified when they first sign up.

The photo verification should also include a date

Actually yes there is....no way im putting a face pic on here and have no intention sending a nude one either. Id be too afftonted "

But no one except admin see's it. And I'm yet to hear of admin leaking a verification photo

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

every one should go on cam n that would sort out who is a fake

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


"every one should go on cam n that would sort out who is a fake"

But then I couldn't post until I got rid of my morning face, and changed out of by tatty but comfy dressing gown...

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


"every one should go on cam n that would sort out who is a fake

But then I couldn't post until I got rid of my morning face, and changed out of by tatty but comfy dressing gown... "

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

We think everyone should be photo verified right from the start which that will hopefully out the fake couple and fake single women ads

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

No matter what solutions are put in place, the truly determined person will always find a way to fake an account/profile.

We've yet to come into contact with a faker/timewaster so far so it begs the question, what are others doing so differently that they're getting so many?

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


"Perhaps a way of sorting the honest profiles is to introduce a "must verify with a week" to become a member rule ?"

If this rule had been in place I, just like many others, probably wouldn't have bothered to join the site at all. I have no interest in camming for veries, wanted to understand the site better before I'd have considered getting photo verified (which in the end I've decided not to bother with as I think meets veries are worth more) and there's no way I'd have wanted the pressure of having to meet a stranger within a week of discovering what, for me at the time, was a whole new world! If that means I'm not genuine then I'll get my coat

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By *iss_Samantha_LovecockTV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

a week !! ...what planet are you on ..do u know how long it takes most guys to get a meet..let alone verified ..the biggest problems is time-wasters not fake profiles

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

I think the biggest problem is the single ones(who are not single).

They chat and looking for meets, but want you to provide everything, at a time of their choosing, so they just turn up and you had better be grateful that they are doing you a favour.

or false couples (FB etc who swing as a couple), so hard to pin them down as they both need to agree the meet and agree a time they are both free.

Then we have the fake couples, where she is taking a break, but he can still swing, but not at theirs, same as fake single profile really.

You can tell I have been around a fair few years

How do you sort it out....looking at the profile, how long, do they post in the forums (you can see what they say), asking good questions (why can't you accommodate), and do they sound a bit too good to be true (make huge promises)...

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


"I think the biggest problem is the single ones(who are not single).

They chat and looking for meets, but want you to provide everything, at a time of their choosing, so they just turn up and you had better be grateful that they are doing you a favour.

or false couples (FB etc who swing as a couple), so hard to pin them down as they both need to agree the meet and agree a time they are both free.

Then we have the fake couples, where she is taking a break, but he can still swing, but not at theirs, same as fake single profile really.

You can tell I have been around a fair few years

How do you sort it out....looking at the profile, how long, do they post in the forums (you can see what they say), asking good questions (why can't you accommodate), and do they sound a bit too good to be true (make huge promises)..."

Why are FB couples false ? False in what way ? I had a couples profile with my FB on here and it worked very well, had lots of quality meets.

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


"Looks like the OP is a fake - her profile isn't available for me to view .....

"

we can see it Sx

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


"Looks like the OP is a fake - her profile isn't available for me to view .....

we can see it Sx"

So can I. Why is someone fake if you can't view their profile ?

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"No matter what solutions are put in place, the truly determined person will always find a way to fake an account/profile.

We've yet to come into contact with a faker/timewaster so far so it begs the question, what are others doing so differently that they're getting so many?"

Exactly! I wonder too. Seven years and not one, yet some manage to come across a fake every day with a "y" in it!

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

theres more timewasters than fakes you just block and move on

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


"Nothing to stop people being photo verified when they first sign up.

The photo verification should also include a date

Actually yes there is....no way im putting a face pic on here and have no intention sending a nude one either. Id be too afftonted

But no one except admin see's it. And I'm yet to hear of admin leaking a verification photo"

I still wouldn't do it though and to be fair, I don't see how doing that makes me any more reliable than if I dont do it. Or am I missing something?

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


"No matter what solutions are put in place, the truly determined person will always find a way to fake an account/profile.

We've yet to come into contact with a faker/timewaster so far so it begs the question, what are others doing so differently that they're getting so many?"

I have chatted to 'fakes' many times. But I don't arrange to meet them.

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