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handonyourneck -> RE: Collarme needs to do a better job of policing its userbase (6/13/2013 1:07:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
Certainly. I will share the reasons/complaints I've encountered from clients I've done similar work for in the past.
That is other clients, not THIS site.
Lets have a look at some home truths shall we???
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
1) Advertisers want accurate member counts. Artificially inflating your member base can cost you money and your sites credibility.
Advertisers don't give a shit as long as they get a return on their advertising.
The bigger the numbers the more they can potentially earn.
This is not some high-class designer outfit website where accuracy is preferred over numbers.
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
2) Fake accounts that upload images use up valuable storage and bandwidth, which cost you money.
Members are able to report images.
If you don't want to use the site tools then you are part of the problem, not the solution [:D]
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
3) If the object of a personals site (even a BDSM one) is to grow its member base (which it is), ensuring the accounts on your site are actual people should be an integral part of your business practice. Nobody wants to invest time wading through fake accounts and fake emails.
Fake accounts are on every single personals webpage across the whole internet.
Are you wanting CM to start a world-wide campaign to obliterate them??
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
4) Exposing your members to these fake accounts leaves them vulnerable to phishing and other online scams will eventually lead to site abandonment. Not everyone is savvy enough to spot them. Being party to someone getting ripped off, even unintentionally, can hurt a site's reputation.
Nope. not at all.
Just hide and block - you can't be phished.
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
5) It hurts your credibility with the internet at large. I don't know any business owner who would enjoy googling his business only to find entire sites devoted to exposing the very fake accounts we're discussing here.
Credibility means nothing as long as the money keeps pouring in.
Most site owners really don't give a shit as long as they stay within the law.
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
I also don't know many business owners who would want to network their site with a site that can't keep a handle on this kind of activity. Circulation of traffic is the lifeblood of this business. I direct to you, you direct to me, we all make money.
ALL the sites are full of fakes (even the pay sites) and each is as bad as the other if you look.
You obviously haven't met many site owners.
Your assertion is false.
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
6) Fake accounts can get you blacklisted with search engines and toolbars.
Actually, the exact OPPOSITE is true!!
The more entries you have for your site (fake or otherwise) will bring more entries to any search engine and that will usually generate more revenue in one form or another.
You obviously have no clue about e-commerce do you. [:)]
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ORIGINAL: handonyourneck
Those are just off the top of my head.
And all completely WRONG!!
ETA: One extremely GOOD example of everything you say is wrong about this site (and all the other sites out there) and is arguably the most popular website is........ eBay!!!
That has sooo many fake items, fake traders, scammers.... you name it, it's got it.
And yet in the last decade it's become a world-wide phenomenon frequented by litterally billions of people every single day and features on just about every single search engine you can throw at it! [8D]
Ebay don't police their site and they specifically state in their ToS (just like CM) that they do not do so.
Are you going to argue against the most popular, most prominent, most searched website in the world??
Get a grip and stop bitching will ya.
Right. Except all of that is complete horseshit. What do you do for a living again?
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