FabSwingers.com forum: Site supporter blocking

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

Why do people insist your a site supporter and block anyone who is not? Surely the whole point of being photo verified and having verifications prove your genuine!!

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

No idea but I guess people can insist on whatever they like.

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

"No idea but I guess people can insist on whatever they like."

Yeah i suppose but it dont make you anymore genuine being a site supporter

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Why do people insist your a site supporter and block anyone who is not? Surely the whole point of being photo verified and having verifications prove your genuine!! "

I've always assumed it's a way to discourage people setting up fake profiles to contact you. Having to pay £5 would certainly stop me,

but then I'm half-Scottish

Mr ddc

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

Because we can.

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

"Because we can."

Its ment to be a fun and free site, all it does is deters genuine people contacting you. I can understand different filters

I.e age, sexuallity but if your not a site supporter your not blocked!

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

If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me

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

"If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me "

What makes you think because your not a site supporter your a idiot?

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

It's that tricky little imp known as Personal Choice; don't sweat it OP and concentrate on the profiles who's preferences you meet.

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

"It's that tricky little imp known as Personal Choice; don't sweat it OP and concentrate on the profiles who's preferences you meet. "

We aint sweating, its just a question as to why, it dont make you anymore genuine,

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
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over a year ago

My Own Little World

Probably because it is a tool that Fab provides and they choose to use it. It is a preference thing.

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By *wo4FemCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

Seems to be a personal choice for some people.

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

"Because we can.

Its ment to be a fun and free site, all it does is deters genuine people contacting you. I can understand different filters

I.e age, sexuallity but if your not a site supporter your not blocked! "

More importantly, it stops a lot of none genuine people contacting me.

I am very capable and willing to message people that catch my eye that are not site supporters. It doesn't mean I won't meet them.

It just means they can't message me out of the blue.

That's the thing with message filters. They're not "meet" filters. They're just keep inboxed to manageable levels.

That way, when I do message someone that catches my eye, any response I receive will be found and read.

Basically, because we can.

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

"Because we can.

Its ment to be a fun and free site, all it does is deters genuine people contacting you. I can understand different filters

I.e age, sexuallity but if your not a site supporter your not blocked!

Then fab need to put more filters in place then, if its all to do with preference as everyone keeps saying, then more filters are needed for site supported and none site supportes

More importantly, it stops a lot of none genuine people contacting me.

I am very capable and willing to message people that catch my eye that are not site supporters. It doesn't mean I won't meet them.

It just means they can't message me out of the blue.

That's the thing with message filters. They're not "meet" filters. They're just keep inboxed to manageable levels.

That way, when I do message someone that catches my eye, any response I receive will be found and read.

Basically, because we can."

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

Fab need to give us more filters then if its all down to preference. For site supporters and none site supporters

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

"If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me

What makes you think because your not a site supporter your a idiot?"

I don't, you misread my post

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

"If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me

What makes you think because your not a site supporter your a idiot?

I don't, you misread my post

Prob lol

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

"Fab need to give us more filters then if its all down to preference. For site supporters and none site supporters"

Everyone has preference. Of course they're going to put an option in that encourages people to become site supporters. It's a free site but it still costs to run it. If they can keep doing it for a voluntary contribution from some users, brilliant.

For everything else, a quick browse of the profile filters a lot.

I doubt anyone "just" has the site supporters message filter up.

I'll check out fabs, forums, who's near, posted meets, friend and local updates. So there are lots of ways for people to stand out without having an inbox full.

If the people you're trying to message have that filter up, then just move on to the next person. And you may well catch their attention another way.

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

"If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me "

It's idiotic to use the site tools? I think I heard it all now

I know, I'll lift the filters, deal with the inbox fill of shite instead of using my free time to go and have really good sex. That seems like a much better plan

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

"If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me

It's idiotic to use the site tools? I think I heard it all now

No, not at all, you've misread my post too

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

"If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me

It's idiotic to use the site tools? I think I heard it all now

No, not at all, you've misread my post too

You said it's an idiot filter if someone chooses to block non site supporters?

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By *exysuzi and Mr.SCouple
over a year ago

CONISTON .Stoke Suburbia. Staffs. BARMOUTH. The Lakes (Monthly)

I understand your post "just Andy" xxxxx Suzi

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

"If someone wants to block none site supporters then that's a good "idiot filter" for me

It's idiotic to use the site tools? I think I heard it all now

It dont cost alot to run a site, plus they dont employ no one, maybe i should set up a swingers site.

No, not at all, you've misread my post too

You said it's an idiot filter if someone chooses to block non site supporters?"

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

I'll explain why we block non-site supporters from being able to contact us. We used to get rather a lot of what we considered pointless messages from single guys. We wanted to reduce that, and took the view that those who were non site supporters, were more likely to be people who were not serious. We realise that this is not always the case, and therefore we might miss out on a gem, but that's unfortunate. What led us to our view was because practically everybody we knew on the swing scene were site supporters, so we thought that was the norm for people with our approach to swinging. We have no issue with people who are not site supporters, and we would happily meet someone who is a non supporter. But we are not prepared to lift our block, because we don't want to increase the quantity of messages. We have found by having this filter in place, we get a higher percentage of quality messages.

Mrs

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

"I understand your post "just Andy" xxxxx Suzi"

Thank you

I didn't think it was that cryptic

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

From our experiences on here thus far we only chat to verified people by 2 or more different people (verifications are easily faked via multiple free accounts).

Site supporter status isn't important to us though it POSSIBLY makes people appear more genuine (but do the non genuine do this to appear more genuine dum dum durrrrrrr ).

We use common sense, we wouldn't be like "oh they are site supporters they are defo genuine".

We just ask for a phone chat VERY early on, don't send photos or do web-chat, we invite to our friends gallery when we speak to female and there isn't any really explicit photos on there anyway.

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

"From our experiences on here thus far we only chat to verified people by 2 or more different people (verifications are easily faked via multiple free accounts).

Site supporter status isn't important to us though it POSSIBLY makes people appear more genuine (but do the non genuine do this to appear more genuine dum dum durrrrrrr ).

We use common sense, we wouldn't be like "oh they are site supporters they are defo genuine".

We just ask for a phone chat VERY early on, don't send photos or do web-chat, we invite to our friends gallery when we speak to female and there isn't any really explicit photos on there anyway.

Very sensible.

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

Perhaps some prefer to chat/meet people who contribute to the running of the site. Or they know that someone who's willing to pay, is more likely to be a genuine profile. I'm sure they have valid reasons OP. I am a site supporter, but it's too much of a strict filter for me to use as a tool. But the tool is there for a reason, and if some choose to use it, it's their prerogative. We all run our profiles as we see fit, after all

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

that's right, there are plenty of fake veris but a simple call is all it takes to show your genuine. blocking none site supporters is ridiculas I think as all it does is keeps messages out, don't prove nothing else, oh and a few other bits that's really not important, if you are genuine anyone should be able to contact you, if if they say no then that's fine, you move on.

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

"Perhaps some prefer to chat/meet people who contribute to the running of the site. Or they know that someone who's willing to pay, is more likely to be a genuine profile. I'm sure they have valid reasons OP. I am a site supporter, but it's too much of a strict filter for me to use as a tool. But the tool is there for a reason, and if some choose to use it, it's their prerogative. We all run our profiles as we see fit, after all

yes that is there preference, just because you don't pay it don't mean you are not genuine. we used to pay for it but it made no sense in blocking people, none member can block people, and like I said previously it does not cost a lot to run a site, it seems fab are just raking it in at the moment, ive reported loads of fake and rude people, what have fab done? naff all so why should people make them wealthy when there supposed to keep the site running smooth..

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

"that's right, there are plenty of fake veris but a simple call is all it takes to show your genuine. blocking none site supporters is ridiculas I think as all it does is keeps messages out, don't prove nothing else, oh and a few other bits that's really not important, if you are genuine anyone should be able to contact you, if if they say no then that's fine, you move on."

Exactly, it 'keeps messages out'. That's all we want to achieve - reduce the messages to a more manageable level. We're not trying to prove anything, we're not being predudiced. We have even approached non-site supporters personally because we liked the look of their profile. But if we can reduce our messages, given that the majority of people that we are interested in are site supporters, then we don't feel we are missing out on any fun. Well we are definately not missing out on fun!

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

that's good then, still plenty of fun to be had but there would be so much more if people could message site supporters aswell. but its peoples preference so has to be respected

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

I agree with you about the genuiness of a fab member. A lot that I have met are not site supporters, and very genuine. I'm not sure if some see it differently though. I personally enjoy the extra perks that come with being a site supporter haha. That's why I pay

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

"that's good then, still plenty of fun to be had but there would be so much more if people could message site supporters aswell. but its peoples preference so has to be respected"

One of the reasons we originally became a site supporter was in our early days of swinging we found we couldn't message everybody, so were at that time potentially missing out. I guess the problem you're having now. But we don't mind paying for a service we use.

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

it generally stops the Friday/Saturday after the pubs have closed raft of messages from tossers who think it's an alternative to having any social skills and open up profiles for an attempt to get sex or cyber then delete so their partners don't find out...

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

"Why do people insist your a site supporter and block anyone who is not? Surely the whole point of being photo verified and having verifications prove your genuine!! "

Because it's the other persons preference to block anyone who is not. And it's good business for fab lol

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