Posted on 08/26/2015 6:13:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ashley Madison has long claimed, in triumphant news releases and slick, Web-ready graphics, that it is one of the few dating sites that really clicks with women. According to statistics CEO Noel Biderman has trumpeted in the media, Ashley Madison enjoys an overall 70/30 gender split — with a 1:1 male/female ratio among the under-30 set.
But the user records laid bare by hackers last week tell a very different story: Of the more than 35 million records released, only 5 million — a mere 15 percent — actually belonged to women.
This discrepancy may be the smoking gun that proves something angry users, industry insiders and government watchdogs have alleged for some time: that when it comes to reporting their own user numbers, paid-dating sites distort, manipulate … and sometimes straight-up lie.
“Ashley Madison has paid people to write profiles, and they’ve allowed fake profiles to proliferate on their site,” said David Evans, an industry consultant who has contracted with Ashley Madison in the past and has tracked the business of online dating since 2002. “Tons of sites are guilty of that. That’s not news.”
It may be news, however, to the legions of paying online daters who have treated tales of “date bait” as message-board apocrypha — and not as a tangible, industry-wide practice that they themselves have encountered.
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“Do you mean to tell me that the owners of the adultery web site can’t be trusted?”
I had to chuckle at this one. Way to put it all in perspective, STA.
It's fewer when you remember about half are fake.
A lot of people had multiple accounts as well.
I downloaded the data and have sifted through it.
Found 4 people I know so far and a bunch of neighbors who paid big money on the site.
Why do they still call this data “hacked”?
John McAfee makes a pretty compelling case this was an inside job and that the database was STOLEN, which is much different than a hack.
It takes a special kind of stupid to have gotten involved with this website in the first place.
Exactly! I know a woman that many men state has a “sexy, sultry voice”. They imagine her to be young, thin, buxom, blonde.. you get the point. Reality is she is in her mid 50’s and about 300+ pounds.. a nice lady but certainly not the “imagined” one.
From where did you download the data?
Sounds like the boys in Democrat War Rooms....
The “dark web” =P
PM me if you want me to search any names, email addresses or anything. =P
Match.com faked female profiles also. So what else is new?
From Married With Children.
(Butter is Al Bundy’s huge mother in law)
Griff hands the card to Bob Rooney, but Ike grabs it from him. All of the guys rush excitedly over to the phone. Ike starts dialling.
AL Hey, Ike, Ike Ike! Don’t be selfish, put it on the speaker phone.
Ike does so. The phone rings, then a sexy voice answers.
BUTTER Hello, you’re cooking with Butter.
The guys hoot and holler.
IKE Hey Butter, this is... Hot Pants.
BUTTER Ehhh, Hot Pants, why don’t you come closer and melt little ol’ Butter?
IKE Ohh, ho-hold on, I-I-I gotta think about baseball.
AL Hey, hey, Butter, this is uh, this is Double O Shoe. Listen, forget Hot Pants, you gotta talk to my good friend...
BOB Butcher Boy!
DAN Psycho Cop!
AL Not you, you potbellied porkers.
Al picks up the receiver and gives it to the reluctant Griff.
GRIFF Hiya Butter. This is, umm... Shoehorn O’Plenty.
Personally I have never known a guy who cheated on his wife where his wife was not more attractive than the other woman.
So yeah, they probably had to fake it.
How is data taken in a hack not stolen? One is basically an inside job, the other a burglary. Both are crimes of theft.
How about some accurate data from Gizmodo:
I find it reassuring that most women weren’t participating in this activity.
Your reply reminds me of the 900 numbers from the 80’s.
Sexy voices on the phone, meet in person could be godzilla in drag.
My point is that this was an inside job, with unfettered access to all of the data.
A hack is done from the outside, by backtracking via limited access.
Calling it a hack is wrong.
Neither were "most" men, or even many, and only a minority of all married men.
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