Plenty of Fail
Review about Plenty Of Fish (POF)Plenty of Fish is the worst dating site on the Internet.
While the concept of online dating is well meaning, the execution of it is very difficult. However, while some sites actually make an attempt at creating a useful and potentially rewarding user experience, it is clear that Plenty of Fish have no such aspirations.
For the honest guy, the site is teeming with fakes, con artists, delusional leftovers, social paths and attention seekers. There is probably 1 plausible candidate for every 99 you have the displeasure of having to swim past. However, many of the candidates are wary since they had to endure a sea full of equally dreadful denizens.
The honest woman has to endure a steady flow of cads and poseurs looking for a booty call. Encouraged by the amount of truth-stretching by a lot of the female ads, these hounds will post up equally embellished profiles and often completely fake photos. It?s like trying to find an honest person in the middle of a smash-and-dash riot looting fest. They do exist, but the chances are, you won?t find them here.
What makes Plenty of Fish particularly bad is that they clear promote all sorts of negative behaviour.
Although they will attempt to remove fakes and any profiles that have any hostility towards women, they are apparently less likely to remove female members who lace their profiles with an obvious tone of hostility towards men. There excuse is that they need as many female members as possible. However, how is that an excuse to promote negativity? It?s supposed to be about love and not hate, is it not?
Speaking of negativity. The man bashers have a place to hide out: the forums.
There is a small group of regulars that post up all sorts of negative comments about men in general. Sometimes the comments are blatant; sometimes they are cleverly couched in innuendo. However, these are left around while the moderator deletes rebuttals at her whim. It doesn?t take much to realize that the moderator, miss_Allison, has a clear agenda. She does not allow open dialogue about anything she deems to be ?done to death?. This really just translates to censorship of anything she can?t debate, but disagrees with. Members who speak out against it receive a permanent ban.
Essentially, this means that the forum site promotes intolerance to anything that man-bashers don?t want to hear.
The whole affair is a travesty, and people should avoid the site. The Internet community deserves far better.
Pros
- Free
- You don?t have to go there
Cons
- Full of Fakes, Frauds, Man Bashers, Sex Hounds
- Run like cheap backroom operation (and it shows)
- Membership is free but your time isn?t
- Will make you think that the world is full of narcissistic, delusional women and sex-crazed loser guys
- Forums are seriously biased towards man bashers
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Review: Worst Site On The Planet
Online dating is pretty lame to begin with. The lack of immediate reprisal for lying makes it easy for people with all sorts of anti-social traits to fill the ranks of membership.
Plenty-of-Freaks wins hands down as the WORST of the WORST.
There are four main reasons that let this happen:
1. It?s free. Sure you can ?upgrade? but why would you. That would be like asking for more requests for money from that ?Nigerian Prince.?
2. There?s hardly any real filtering against making a fake profile.
3. The site owner has no reason to make an honest effort at providing a rewarding user experience. It?s all about making money any way he can.
4. There?s no law against having a poorly managed and operated site.
5. Oh, did I mention it was FREE?
There are more reasons why it keeps happening:
1. Men outnumber women in membership by a staggering ratio, so any woman will get loads of attention online.
2. The women who are out-competed in the real world quickly discover this and live eat it up faster than the large bucket of fried chicken they did for lunch.
3. The forums are controlled an angry man-hating woman, so that becomes a haven for all sorts of man-bashing (any comment against this is deleted and you get banned if you complain.)
4. The site tries to attract more women so they allow liberties just to get them onboard. That includes candy-coated body-types like ?a few extra pounds? instead of a requirement for a recent full body photograph (the camera my add 10 lbs, but it rarely lies.)
5. If you read some of the garbage that is written in the profiles or on the forums you quickly realize that Plenty-of-Flounders attracts the bottom-of-the-barrel types. That includes the seriously delusional, the hostile leftovers and the ?I?m not fat, I?m big and beautiful and everybody loves me.?
So, although the concept of an online dating forum is not a bad idea, the production of one has to take into consideration what kind of women it eventually fills up with.
Let?s be honest here.
Even a slightly attractive woman will have little problem getting men to notice her out in the real world. A bit of attention to detail, a whiff of perfume and the guys will come out in droves. If a woman has to go to a FREE online service, there is either some SERIOUSLY flawed with her or she isn?t going there to find a date.
That?s what you?ll get on Plenty-of-Free-Trash.
Go outside and find a real woman on terra firma. You won?t get anything worth keeping on Plenty-of-Fakers (but you?ll waste a lot of time trying.)
The site should die at the hands of hackers. The Internet and the Internet community deserve a lot better than that pile of stinking rubbish.