The premise here is that, there are actual people combing through the whole membership database, and actively looking for good looking people to delete. That seems like a lot more effort than its worth. And for what? Because of the fear that successful relationships will reduce membership and thus reduce the number of people logging in?
I would say "actively deleting people" would reduce the number of logins a lot more than "successful relationships" would. Successful relationships are hard to achieve in real life, let alone in cyberspace. A better explanation of people getting deleted is probably just sheer incompetence on the part of the people managing the site. Maybe accidentally deleting something here, server got disconnected there during a patch or something. This IS a free site afterall, so.. it's not going to have the best IT team behind it. Maybe some people's profiles got accidentally banned cuz their code did something wrong.
I dunno. I just find the conspiracy to require too much effort, and too little reward, for them to actually do it. I say never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Ya the guy wrote the Plenty of Fish things is some kind of competor using internet logic, thats is , sometingthat makes for a juicy romour adn will be debated but is totaly nonsense looked at seriously.
There are scams used on dating sites but they ar ethe reverse:
-fake profiles put up by staff, of all types to geerate hits
-paid staff members who go on dates to generate buzz
-staff members relying to ads to get peoples hopes up
-keeping old inactive profiles as if they where active; to generate more buzz
I have idea if any of these are used by POF but I have meet girsl who jobs was to be fake single girls on dating sites - to various degress (emailin to dating depending) Genrally a stie wants more poeple on the site not less. Losers don;t levee the sites regardless.