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5 Aug 2004

Righto - first to Judy:
No offence taken, but to clarify a bit - I don't provide a very complete profile because I consider my website, occupation, interests and so on to be personal info. Anyone who wants to can PM me or email anyway, and I'll tell them a bit more about myself. I'm on other messageboards and have even less information, and it's never a problem. Some people bare all to the world, some are more reserved - I'm the latter.
As for my ad - well, basically it isn't very good! No point linking to it yet ;) I got a reply when I stuck it up, but it was from a bloke.... hmmm.
On the credibility thing - I don't think my credibility should have any bearing on whether or not it's a good idea. Even madmen occasionally say meaningful things smile

All I expect is for people to take me as I am. Sometimes I'm a dumb plank and my ideas make no sense, other times they make sense. I chucked this one out to see if it sinks or swims as it seemed a good idea to me :)
Bluexxx:
Most of the fake ads tend to have disappeared by the time I get a response - the perils of being quick off the mark in replying. So usually there isn't anything to report, although I occasionally report the guys who don't understand that they aren't women seeking men!
Then there are some replies that seem odd, really vaguely worded and smell spammy, but I can't really be sure. I reply to a few of them, but don't get any response - they could have been real and simply not interested after my reply, or maybe I'm now on a mailing list.... I can't tell, and I'm not big on crying wolf on real women who are probably just besieged with email :/
Surreycouple have got it right - there are probably just a lot more fakes in women seeking men....
And maybe us guys need to be a little more vocal on the forum about pointing out ads that seem dodgy.
And hey to Mister D - that's probably what started me thinking along these lines now that you mention it! I found one of those sites a few weeks ago.
Sadly I think many women would respond badly to "I need you to take a photo of yourself with a loaf of bread on your head to prove you're real" ;)

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5 Aug 2004

I've been using this site for a few months now, and very rarely receive anything that isn't spam mail back for my efforts to write a decent reply to nice women....
Perhaps to help sift out the fakes, people posting ads might want to put something distinctive in the photographs, like a little piece of card with SwingingHeaven written on it, so we can be confident that it's not just a screencapture or two of a random person from some porn flick. (Obviously if you post lots on the forums then you'll probably not have problems with credibility, but for the hundreds of anonymous ads each day, it might help.)
And perhaps it might improve the quality of replies that those people got too, as if you're clearly real, I expect the respondents may put a little more effort into their replies?
This is just an idea to help separate the real people from the email harvesters.... what say you lot?
I'm sick of responding to people only to get back a bunch of email advertising some other site, which of course, you have to subscribe to!
Or has this debate been done before and abandoned?

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24 Jul 2004

I'm interested!
Check your PM's smile

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11 Jun 2004

Thanks for all your welcomes, you're a friendly lot smile

Good to know.... nice that there are some Welsh people around too!
BTW - What is this GFZ of which ye all speak??

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11 Jun 2004

Hi - thanks smile

Actually I'm not Welsh, just live here :) I used to be a Northerner, and on very occasional occasions, still am :]

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11 Jun 2004

Hi all,
I thought I'd just say hello and let you all know you've got another newbie to torment ;)
I decided to join this site after stumbling across it on a google search for something else, I was enticed by the massive number of adverts that actually seem to be real! The horror!
Sadly, not many around here for me sad

Where are all the South Wales and surrounding people hiding?
I've never actually tried this before, although I did get stood up by a couple I met on the net a week or so back, arranged a meet, I went - no sign of them.... :( I've replied to a couple of ads, and got one response which looks to be genuine, so I'll see how it goes.
For the record: 26/M/straight!
Moonhinge

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