Markus, this is complete and total crap! Your public forums have proven to be a place where slander and libel abound. Too many people get banned and deleted from your site without warning or reason (myself included).

I am privvy to someone who reported a case of libel in your forums, and your “solution” was to delete their account … not once, but several times!

You run a successful internet site, but your methods will only serve to snap back agaist you (and your members).

http://www.oasisoflove.com/2/articles.php?id=11

Thanks for posting this in contrast to the online dating sites who swear there is NO PROBLEM. And ignore that man behind the green curtain, too.

1. Before mine all dating sites had profiles locked away behind a login.

2. I found a way to actually have forums on a site dating site.

3. Thousands of members review and help each other rewrite their profiles every day.

4. Members organize and hold their own parties on a weekly basis. 2 Weekends ago i had a party in ontario that was broadcast live over the radio all night, and nearly 1,000 singles showed up.

That to me is taking parts of what made social networking successful and incorperating it into a dating site model.

Paid dating sites probably won’t go away, but what if 80% of singles start using social networking sites to find dates? Does anyone think the generation being brought up using social networking sites is suddenly going to switch to paid dating sites?

Most of us would disagree that paid sites are going away. There may be less casual daters on them, but going away? Never happen. There will always be a core several million people who use price as a filter. This is why Google dating will never really work. Free is nice but you have to put up with so much more. Lame ads, bad UI, crappy profiles, etc.

I got a message to my match account, but they have stopped telling you who sent it.

This is a very sneaky tactic that I will believe will annoy a lot of users.

The other sites must be really eating into matchs market share.

Brian

Look around, free dating sites are owned by computer programmers, and philantropists. I own oasisoflove.com, and I challenge anybody to show me how any paysite is better in quality than what I have to offer.

Yahoo, Match, really screwed up dating online. They should have kept everything honest, and people would have continued to pay up for a long time to come. It’s the dawn of a new day, free dating is taking over. There is nothing that paysites provide that I don’t, with the exception of their millions of members, which we know are mostly fake.

The fact is, there are more spammers/scammers on Match than you’ll find on any other dating site. Why? Match could easily detect scam letters programmatically and prevent delivery. But they won’t, because that’d cut into their membership base, and ultimately their income. It’s all about money, nobody cares about the members’ interest.

Just blocking the IP’s from those countries would get rid of 90% of the spam and then more complicated filters would clean up the rest.

I think many of the scammers increase conversion rates and thats why they are left there. For a test i create a new hotmail account and went to Adultfrienfinder and messaged 20 girls.. I got 0 legit replies 2 replies from escorts and 8 replies from various porn spambots for other sites.