TOPIC: POF Now Blocks Sexual Messages & Age Limit Restriction

We may have to start terrorizing a new website in the future.

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

What a loser. Who says a fit (or hell, an unfit) fifty year old can't date a eighteen year old if both parties are fully willing? I absolutely detest these self-appointed Internet police who feel they know how to use their products (usually paid for!) better than the customer.

Fully agree, that's a messed up message. Can you link us the source?

Luckily there's not real threat for us in the changes.

I know a 40 year old that has been hooking up with a lot girls that are 18/early 20s years old.  This could be a problem. He can still make his profile say he's younger, but all that he would need is just a couple girls reporting his profile to pof and he'll be done. Brutal..


I don't usually mention any big sexual references, but I know a lot of guys that do. This should be brought to attention. If they block it out the same way they do with going over your daily limit - your messages will not go through and you will have no idea that POF blocked it.. It will show "sent" and she will not receive it. gay

As long as they don't restrict the number of max msgs sent daily, we'll do fine.


Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Just logged in and saw this message that was sent today.

Edit: I'm going to Sticky this post and update the title.

the guy is a fucking idiot dude.

Here's the plan, I thought of it in 10seconds...

look like a scumbag in your profile

send a flower to all the girls

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+@ (rose)

rooster and I will discuss this later

These don't affect me at all.

What a loser. Who says a fit (or hell, an unfit) fifty year old can't date a eighteen year old if both parties are fully willing? I absolutely detest these self-appointed Internet police who feel they know how to use their products (usually paid for!) better than the customer.

Fully agree, that's a messed up message. Can you link us the source?

Hey, did a quick search and couldn't find it anywhere. It's just a message I found in my inbox today. I agree... if it's consensual and legal it should be no prob. The -14 won't affect me for while but it's +/- 14 which means I won't be able to hit cougars when I get the occasional itch. What's really starting to piss me off though as I get older (I'm 29 now) I get fewer and fewer messages from younger chicks because POF doesn't recommend my profile to younger girls anymore. My "Viewed Me" used to be a major pool I could get hot leads from, but now the only girls viewing my profile are in the 30-35 age range. 

Luckily there's not real threat for us in the changes.

I know a 40 year old that has been hooking up with a lot girls that are 18/early 20s years old.  This could be a problem. He can still make his profile say he's younger, but all that he would need is just a couple girls reporting his profile to pof and he'll be done. Brutal..


I don't usually mention any big sexual references, but I know a lot of guys that do. This should be brought to attention. If they block it out the same way they do with going over your daily limit - your messages will not go through and you will have no idea that POF blocked it.. It will show "sent" and she will not receive it. gay

As long as they don't restrict the number of max msgs sent daily, we'll do fine.


Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Just logged in and saw this message that was sent today.

Edit: I'm going to Sticky this post and update the title.

No prob, and yeah I agree. I never had much luck with searching out intimate encounters, and I could never be really sexual right off the bat and make it work. I see girls complaining about sex comments and penis pics so I always felt I got lumped into the creeper category with that stuff if i used it too soon.

Does this guy have a problem with men and women having sex?  Sex is the most natural, normal, healthy thing that adults can do with each other.  There is nothing wrong with men (Or women) wanting to have sex.  This guy is a self righteous, sexually repressed douche bag.  I will never use POF, ever. 

Faggots deleted my profile and wouldn't let me sign up with the same username or email. I eas using the same 3 or so ohrases to open chicks, including one slightly more sexual 'I.e. I would do naughty things to you'. Fucking cunts ruined my flow man!

Yes, all of this sucks balls, but it is possible to know if your message went through or not even though it says "Message Sent". After you send your message immediately check your sent messages to see if it went through. Alternatively you can also check your conversation with her if it isn't the first message to her. If it's not there it didn't go through. Try removing sexual words and replacing with suggestive words and resend. Might want to highlight what you wrote and copy it before you send so you don't have to retype everything if it doesn't go through.

Yes, all of this sucks balls, but it is possible to know if your message went through or not even though it says "Message Sent". After you send your message immediately check your sent messages to see if it went through. Alternatively you can also check your conversation with her if it isn't the first message to her. If it's not there it didn't go through. Try removing sexual words and replacing with suggestive words and resend. Might want to highlight what you wrote and copy it before you send so you don't have to retype everything if it doesn't go through.

Unfortunately that's likely not the case.

The message will say "Message Sent" but it won't actually go through.
It's the same way as if you were to send more than 40 messages in 24 hours or send 4 identical openers. POF will block your message while it still showing it "sent"