Talk:PlentyofFish

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This article currently reads like an add for the Plenty of fish website with lines like "PlentyofFish is an extremely popular social networking and online dating service". Also it needs to have some sources.--82.10.116.169 11:57, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Any attempt to add any content that doesn't serve to make POF appear above it's competitors is deleted by the same IP. This isn't an online dating guide. I agree the entire entry should be deleted. Ghosttowns 11:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC)ghosttownsGhosttowns 11:34, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't think this should be deleted, the site is probably a pretty huge one with millions of people on it, for that reason, enormous popularity it has significance

Wikipedia doesn't do "probably". You have to show a verifiable source for claims of notability. Bearcat 09:22, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Plentyoffish is my site. Ghosttowns stalking people and spamming their phone is not something I think the wikipedia encourages. I did not create this entry plentyoffish has 750,000 visitors a day. And is in the top 30 sites in canada according to alexa. Its in the top 5 dating sites in the USA according to hitwise. http://onlinepersonalswatch.typepad.com/rankings/ and ranking.websearch.com records it as one of the top 50 sites in the world in terms of pageviews.

I looked up 2 of the IP's posting negative comments here, one of them was banned for stalking women repeatidly. The other was banned for being reported over 50 times under 5 accounts. The users who are deleted are given a status message saying why they were deleted, that anyone can see when searching for their username. There should be no confusion as to why they were deleted and banned.

As for the alexa "reviews" they are created by the same forum troll on the same day, just click on view all reviews to see the date and time. I think the " 200 fake accounts were created on my static DSL IP and they all had the same browser and IP and password but it wasn't me" post explains it all.

Also what is the point of this entry, where is the citation? "POF's moderators have explained that routine maintenance wipes out accounts using known proxy servers, anonymous surfing services but sometimes legitimate users as well. In some cases, entire IP scopes are blocked to the dismay of members. In other cases there seems to be no justifiable reason for accounts being deleted."

The moderators are random people who have no knowledge of the site or its operations. There are 1 million people with moderating privilages and it takes 7 moderators out of 10 voting to delete a thread for it to be deleted. I highly doubt that the above was ever stated, anyone with any kind of internet knowledge would laugh at such a statement. It is impossible to block based on IP, the vast majority of IP's shift every month. You would end up blocking hundreds of thousands of users if you tried to control people via IP blocks. There is also no known list of proxy servers or annon surfing programs, again blocking based on IP's is pretty much impossible unless you have less then 20 IP's you can moniter on a dailly basis.

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