FTC wants a date with Ashley Madison's fembots

Every dating site is like that.

Dating sites don't make money matching people up. They make money by getting men to fork out for a membership and it's in their financial interest to keep that going as long as possible.

FTC was investigating the bots

In-vestingating, wussies! I want probing! closely inspecting! cavity searching!

It's not just fake bots

Ashley Madison a great site to sign people up to cause embarrassment etc. They don't verify emails, don't respond to abuse complaints, don't delete accounts (except supposedly for a $20 totally-not-blackmail fee, but then their payment info won't be deleted), don't really self-police at all, and their notification emails are usually flagged as spam so your victim is unlikely to notice that you're soliciting kinky freaky sex in their name (if you use their real email, which is totally unnecessary) .

Someone did that to me 3 months ago. I changed the profile to be even more blatantly fake. It's still there :)

Hope that helps, FTC... KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

Virtual Cupid...

Yeah, guys, if you feel the need to advertise that fact so you can hold it up in the future against potential litigation, it's pretty fair to say you _expected_ to get sued, and therefore knew damn well what you were doing was sketchy as hell.

that's every site that ever had a "dating" or "meetup" component

that's pretty much every site that has a hookup option. And plenty that do not. Been that way since the beginning, whether they charge or not.

..err..at least that's what I was told...:)

So is their existance news?

Seriously, anyone who's ever been on a dating site knows they're full of fembots. 99% sounds just about right for a couple I've tried since getting divorced, and those are the ones that don't allow married people and kick you off if they learn you're looking for hookups. With the shadiness of a dating service aimed at adulturers I can't even imagine they'd have any significant number of real women.

Even the good ones I've tried have more bots than woman. I guess they figure (probably correctly) that they wouldn't have any customers if the guys on the service can't find dates or if all the women on there are single for a reason, if you catch my meaning (not my view, just the way society tends to think).

Anyway you can always tell the fembots from the real women. The fembots are always beautiful, usually with only one picture which often looks much younger than the purported age of the woman, and and a short profile makes it pretty clear that you can count on the first or second date ending up in the bedroom. The real women on dating sites are rarely much above average in appearance (gorgeous women don't NEED a dating site), usually have several pictures, and a fairly detailed profile because they're there looking for someone compatible with them for the long term.

Note: I'm divorced and all the women I've been meeting the traditional way are either old enough to be my mother, young enough to be my daughter, or married. Yeah I'm on dating sites, but it's because I can't find any women to date in this area the traditional way. Still, anon because who wants to admit to needing a dating site.