OPW – May 21 – Markus, the CEO/Founder of Plentyoffish sent this unusual email out yesterday to POF users. What's your thoughts. Please comment in the comments section…
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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
Appreciate your efforts to improve the site, however, I suspect my profile may have been deleted for reasons that are unknown to me. Is there no notification to those people who’s accounts you deleted letting them know they’ve been deleted and the reason for such action? How else will someone know what happened?? As far as I can see, I violated no rules. I was signed up for less than 24 hours, so it wasn’t any action I took. What’s deal Marcus??
Appreciate your efforts to improve the site, however, I suspect my profile may have been deleted for reasons that are unknown to me. Is there no notification to those people who’s accounts you deleted letting them know they’ve been deleted and the reason for such action? How else will someone know what happened?? As far as I can see, I violated no rules. I was signed up for less than 24 hours, so it wasn’t any action I took. What’s deal Marcus??
Unlike your other commenters, there doesn’t seem to be any way I can find to get deleted from your site. Haven’t been there in years, but I still get emails about “matches” when I’m not looking any more. But since when did users matter to POF? Markus, once a German always a German, telling others what to do.
Unlike your other commenters, there doesn’t seem to be any way I can find to get deleted from your site. Haven’t been there in years, but I still get emails about “matches” when I’m not looking any more. But since when did users matter to POF? Markus, once a German always a German, telling others what to do.
I probably have the longest about me on there probably because I listed all the types of ppl I don’t want messaging me, I.e the super old, men who don’t show their face, men who live too far away, men who just have pics of their truck or dog, or guys that have a pic of them in their ex or guys who want to send me rude messages or say what’s up lil ma. I’m glad to hear the site is getting cleaned up so I can shorten my orofile now lol
I probably have the longest about me on there probably because I listed all the types of ppl I don’t want messaging me, I.e the super old, men who don’t show their face, men who live too far away, men who just have pics of their truck or dog, or guys that have a pic of them in their ex or guys who want to send me rude messages or say what’s up lil ma. I’m glad to hear the site is getting cleaned up so I can shorten my orofile now lol
My account has also been deleted and despite several emails of complaint to POF all I get is the same reply. I am a decent woman, did not post offensive photo’s or send any rude emails. I am completely at a loss as to why my account has been deleted!
My account has also been deleted and despite several emails of complaint to POF all I get is the same reply. I am a decent woman, did not post offensive photo’s or send any rude emails. I am completely at a loss as to why my account has been deleted!
I’m afraid POF thinks you’re not fit to date, or may be abusive to members in some way.
I’m afraid POF thinks you’re not fit to date, or may be abusive to members in some way.
I think the algorithms they use to detect inappropriate messages etc. is faulty… for instance i tried to send a message with @ in it and it gave me a warning not to include an email address… get ur stuff together pot
I think the algorithms they use to detect inappropriate messages etc. is faulty… for instance i tried to send a message with @ in it and it gave me a warning not to include an email address… get ur stuff together pot
I have been part of POF for over 8 years, and Markus just deleted me. That’s a shame! But oh we’ll, there’s plenty of dating sites on the net!
I have been part of POF for over 8 years, and Markus just deleted me. That’s a shame! But oh we’ll, there’s plenty of dating sites on the net!