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WEll, someone has had to start it.. [Ashley Madison]
type568
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March 2007
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This says men actually paid to answer bots. Hella business model. :)

pkrcel
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February 2012

Well, aren't we FLOODED by automatic answering machines here and there?

I guess this had to come up sooner or later.

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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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I think that anybody that has used any kind of "dating" site (e.g., eHarmony, POF) could tell you this from personal experience: they're absolutely full of bots. :P There are very, very few actual women using the sites, and the real women that I've interacted with from these sites, while being very few, were batshit crazy. It's good for this to actually be exposed in at least one instance. Hopefully the users of the site turn against the company and sue them for the fraud and damages.

raynebc
Member #11,908
May 2010

People that were cheating on their spouses deserved to be scammed. And Ashley Madison deserves to be sued for fraud.

bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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They weren't cheating on their spouses. They were fantasizing about it whilst chatting with a computer program. :o

Matthew Leverton
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January 1999
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The bots were just a ploy to get people to pay for the guaranteed affair. Once paid, they'd be redirected to a human that would allegedly just try to connect them with some cheap escort or something.

Elias
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May 2000

bamccaig said:

I think that anybody that has used any kind of "dating" site (e.g., eHarmony, POF) could tell you this from personal experience

I met my wife on POF. I don't think there were any bots on there (but this was in 2012 so things may have changed). From what I remember I only ever was contacted by 3 people other than her in the several months I was signed up, two scammers (who were quite apparent) and a tourist who asked about the city.

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torhu
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September 2002
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...and this is a picture of Elias ;D
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Bob Keane
Member #7,342
June 2006

Bamccaig said:

and the real women that I've interacted with from these sites, while being very few, were batshit crazy.

Aren't they all?

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Arthur Kalliokoski
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February 2005
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Bob Keane said:

Aren't they all?

No. Someone has analyzed this carefully.

video

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

MiquelFire
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January 2003
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If that graph is true, all women must be below 5 on the hot scale for me.

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type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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The video is funny & worth watching. :)

Now bout bots, & hookers.. Heh, makes sense I guess.

Then they could also suck money from escort. :)

bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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type568 said:

Then they could also suck money from escort. :)

I don't know about that. The escorts would be a loose end. If anything they have to kill them after. :o But they probably have to pay full price as if they were the client, plus enough to make it worth their while to keep the jig down.

type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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I read the model of Ashely M. is that men pay for writing a message, even if a woman contacts them, it's free for her. Then the man pays to reply. :)

Arthur Kalliokoski
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February 2005
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type568 said:

I read the model of Ashely M. is that men pay for writing a message, even if a woman contacts them, it's free for her. Then the man pays to reply.

I don't know if the women get by for free or not, but the scam mentality would dictate that the man has to pay for a belief that he has a chance to reply. You can get at least as good results (badger games, hookers pretending to be for real etc.) on Craigslist for free and a lot faster. But Ashley Madison seems to be more respectable, somehow. When I went to community college, I learned that a hair care product called Toni Home Permanent sold poorly at $0.10 per treatment because everybody thought it must be crap to sell so cheaply, so they raised the price to $0.50 and it sold like hotcakes.

They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

piccolo
Member #3,163
January 2003
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So sad reading that article . Good thing I am not human.

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type568
Member #8,381
March 2007
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so they raised the price to $0.50 and it sold like hotcakes.

Good point.. But IIRC they claimed there's actually more women than men.. Oh well, that could be the reason. Unless it wasn't bots, the women :D

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June 2006

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