POF no longer for 'hook ups'!
AnnaPixie
Posts: 7,439 Member
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
Interesting that the horny men looking for sex are actually horny men!!! :laugh:
Anyway, hoorah to POF for trying to cut out the sex pests!! :bigsmile:
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hahah I just posted this in confessions.0
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Haha good on them although that only cuts the really stupid pests.0
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It's a great idea in theory, however most of those "filters" are already in place. You just have to set them manually.
I had already filtered the ages that could email me and they were also blocked users that were seeking an intimate encounter.
I haven't been on there in awhile...I may try again, but who knows.0 -
Did they only send this to women on POF??0
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I've received it too.Did they only send this to women on POF??
* checks crouch *
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I don't use POF but this is good. I agree with the +/- 14 years thing...it is absolutely true.0
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I've received it too.Did they only send this to women on POF??
* checks crouch *
I think you mean crotch Florian?? Unless you were checking and crouching at the same time...lol0 -
I deleted my POF recently. I was tired of all the horny old men.0
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I deleted my POF recently. I was tired of all the horny old men.
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I deleted my POF recently. I was tired of all the horny old men.
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I deleted my POF recently. I was tired of all the horny old men.
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Hi Anna!
Hi darling. I'm gutted I can't chat you up on POF anymore. Damn those 15 years between us......lol :bigsmile:0 -
Oops! You're right. Well, either way, I can't see the little man, so I have to crouch too. :laugh:
I think you mean crotch Florian?? Unless you were checking and crouching at the same time...lol
I've received it too.Did they only send this to women on POF??
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I don't use POF but this is good. I agree with the +/- 14 years thing...it is absolutely true.
There are probably ways around the rules. The 50 year old guys will just start pretending to be 25 year old guys.0 -
Oops! You're right. Well, either way, I can't see the little man, so I have to crouch too. :laugh:
I think you mean crotch Florian?? Unless you were checking and crouching at the same time...lol
I've received it too.Did they only send this to women on POF??
* checks crouch *
Anna you made me LOL!!!!0 -
It's a great idea in theory, however most of those "filters" are already in place. You just have to set them manually.
I had already filtered the ages that could email me and they were also blocked users that were seeking an intimate encounter.
I haven't been on there in awhile...I may try again, but who knows.
I agree with Becky, a lot of those filters were already there if you knew how to set them up!
POF is a hit and miss IMO... I have used the paid sites too, and while they may attract more serious people, they still attract a lot of 'douches' So I gave up on paying.. reposted my POF profile and we will see.0 -
But what if I like the cougars?!0
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I don't use POF but this is good. I agree with the +/- 14 years thing...it is absolutely true.
I actually disagree with this. I've been attracted to men 14+ years older than me.
But I'm not on POF or any other dating site so I guess it doesn't affect me.0 -
I don't use POF but this is good. I agree with the +/- 14 years thing...it is absolutely true.
I actually disagree with this. I've been attracted to men 14+ years older than me.
But I'm not on POF or any other dating site so I guess it doesn't affect me.
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I don't use POF but this is good. I agree with the +/- 14 years thing...it is absolutely true.
I actually disagree with this. I've been attracted to men 14+ years older than me.
But I'm not on POF or any other dating site so I guess it doesn't affect me.
Hi.
A little too young for me.0 -
I don't use POF but this is good. I agree with the +/- 14 years thing...it is absolutely true.
I actually disagree with this. I've been attracted to men 14+ years older than me.
But I'm not on POF or any other dating site so I guess it doesn't affect me.
Hi.
A little too young for me.
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Huh. I've never even had a POF account. I don't get annoyed by spam really, if anything it makes me laugh before I delete it. So even if I did sign up I wouldn't care so much.
But I know a lot of ladies disagree with me. I'm interested to see if it does make a difference.0 -
Huh. I've never even had a POF account. I don't get annoyed by spam really, if anything it makes me laugh before I delete it. So even if I did sign up I wouldn't care so much.
But I know a lot of ladies disagree with me. I'm interested to see if it does make a difference.
I'm kinda with ya. I think it's hilarious to get messages on MFP that are from 50 year old men in Vermont that are trying to hit on me.0 -
LFM Random Hookup PST tank and spank0
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Lol, I find this funny, but I love POF because that's where I met the man with whom I have the best relationship I've ever had. So, yay for POF! :laugh:0
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Huh. I've never even had a POF account. I don't get annoyed by spam really, if anything it makes me laugh before I delete it. So even if I did sign up I wouldn't care so much.
But I know a lot of ladies disagree with me. I'm interested to see if it does make a difference.
I'm kinda with ya. I think it's hilarious to get messages on MFP that are from 50 year old men in Vermont that are trying to hit on me.
The 50 year old men, the 19 year old boys are funny to get... it's all the other crap inbetween... the ones trying to be suave before you realize their just another sheep in wolves clothing. On the + side, this past go round on POF (1 week) has yielded me a lot of response from men I am actually interested in talking too...0 -
Nice. Maybe I will actually log in to POF now....0
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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.
Most of the changes sound positive. Not sure about this one, which seems overly controlling. Yes, a 50 year old man with an 18 year old woman does seem silly. But that's not a 14 year difference, that's a 32 year difference. A 50 year old man with a 35 year old woman doesn't seem so crazy. Or what about a 66 year old man with a 51 year old woman? Or vice versa? But that's now all verbotten on POF.
Wouldn't it be better to set the 14-year age limit as an automatic default on all accounts? Then, if you don't agree with this limit, you have the option to change it in your individual settings. My guess is that 98% of women would just keep it as it is. But for the 2% who would consider dating a man 15 or 20 years older, they have that option.
Full disclosure: I could really care less, as I don't use POF or any other dating site. :-) Just hate to see someone unilaterally limit choice. But it's his site, so obviously he can do what he wants. And, to repeat, the other changes sound positive.
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