The design and style look great though! Hope you get the issue
solved soon. Thanks

POF, vorher als „Plenty of Fish“ bekannt, hat nach Presseberichten eine E-Mail an die Mitglieder verschickt, in dem er sich über die Hook-Up-Kultur beklagt, die nun offenbar auch POF zu schaffen macht. Interessant ist die von Frind angeblich gefundene…

However, what about the conclusion? Are
you certain concerning the source?

markus 5/20/2013 4:09:03 PM

My name is Markus and I created POF/Plentyoffish. When I created POF, I wanted it to be all about finding relationships with the right person. For the first 7 years this worked really well, I got the site to 10 million users without any employees people and POF was generating a ton of relationships. Around 3 years ago, everyone started using the website via mobile phones. Today about 70% of POF use is via a mobile phone and unfortunately about 2% of men started to use POF as more of a hookup site mostly due the the casual nature of cell phone use.

In sticking with my vision that POF is all about Relationships, I’m going to make a bunch of changes to ensure it stays a relationship-focused site.

1. Any first contact between users that contains sexual references will not be sent. Anyone who tries to get around this rule will be deleted without warning. This rule has actually been in effect since last month and it’s made the site so much better.

2. You can only contact people +/- 14 years of your age. There is no reason for a 50 year old man to contact a 18 year old women. The majority of messages sent outside those age ranges are all about hookups. Anyone who tries to get around this rule will get deleted.

3. Intimate Encounters will go away in the next few months. There are 3.3 Million people who use the site every day, of those there are only 6,041 single women looking for Intimate Encounters. Of those 6,041 women, the ones with hot pictures are mostly men pretending to be women. Intimate Encounters on POF can be summed up as a bunch of horny men talking to a bunch of horny men pretending to be women.

In short the vast majority of people will not be impacted. This is because the vast majority of people are not going around spamming women saying “let’s have sex tonight”. I can’t change POF alone, I need your help to get the word out there that POF is all about relationships!

Markus

* Now, I don’t really have an issue with any of this except item # 2.

Why would maukus assume the role of judge and jury ? One of the basic rules is that you have to be of legal age to use the site, and rightfully so. If for instance a subscriber is 52, then according to markus, another subscriber who is 37 cannot be contacted or vise versa. He uses the example of a 50 y/o contacting an 18 y/o. That’s a far cry from 52 and 37.

This is ludicrous and unfair because as we know different people have different preferences and often times women prefer an older man or vise versa. How you can unilaterally decide to do that is beyond me and totally unfair to all users of pof.

Please rethink Item # 2

Thank you.