Ilyrium
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ORIGINAL: KYsissy I suspect that someone had an axe to grind about admins not doing enough to weed out what they determined to be fakes. Probably so. It is pretty bad. At least 80% or 90% of the profiles, by my technical tests, of hits of people within 25 miles of me have turned out to have profile photos that are clearly not of the profile owner. This is technically easy to verify, beyond any reasonable doubt. I think that's what Madman was trying to tell me, and, which I have personally verified to be the case. The good thing about his web site is that the evidence for fake profile photos was incontrovertible in 99 out of 100 of his posts, so, anyone who had a single scientific neuron in his brain would agree on sight, and simply click the block button and hide buttons, which Madman made convenient. It was nice that I could go to this non-collarme-site and click on the profile photos and it would hide and report people on the collarme site (as long as I was also logged into collarme at the same time). This is efficfient, and it knocked hundreds of profiles off my list so that I didn't have to waste any time with them. Note: I'm not talking about "fake profiles" ... I'm talking about profile photos that show up as models on the various reverse search engines on the web but which the profile tries to make look like is of them. It's germane to note that I knew enough to modify my previous profile photo, which I clearly admitted was pulled off the web, so that it would never be found by a reverse image search engine (they use FFT algorithms so it's easy to muck with them so that their own automated search engines don't find their own photos!), but, most others don't seem to do that. Plus, in my defense, my profile photo clearly wasn't trying to intimate it was portraying me, since I'm a guy and the only male in my picture was the dog. Point is, I know a faked profile photo when I see it (because it clearly turns out to be of some model on the web) but who knows how many of the ones that don't show up are cleverly changed enough to that the FFT algorithm misses them. But, what do you expect in a free site anyway? Perfection? You should see Craigslist. The personal ads are 990:10 men looking for sex, and of the 10 women, 9 of them are men posing as women. Same as in the real world. It is what it is, and always was, before I was born, and will be that way long afterward. Nothing changes in history other than the details. Human nature never changes. quote:
ORIGINAL: DesFIP You were contacted by someone who was banned from CM and therefore goes around claiming he was a former mod. I don't know that he was "banned". Do you know that for a fact? He didn't say that to me. He just helped point me in the right direction on a technical forum where I was asking how to identify photos as being faked. He probably didn't even know I was asking about Collarme (although I was also asking about fetlife, craigslist, alt., etc.). It was only in the conversation that collarme came up. I never actually met the guy, but EVERYTHING he told me about the FFT algorithm turned out to be true, so, he was technically astute. If he was banned, I know not that, nor why. Nor why it would matter, since our efforts were purely technical in nature.
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