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How I Decide Who Gets Banned on OkCupid

• wallace_f 10y ago
  From the article: > A user’s wife wrote to OkCupid requesting we disable a “fake” account that was “posing” as her husband. Since using someone else’s photo is against site policy — the woman’s husband said the account wasn’t his — we banned it, choosing not to mention that all of the account’s network traffic was coming from their home. Would this choice had been taken to avoid legal issues, to avoid further queries/dramas, or due to some, for lack of a better way to put it 'I got your back, bro' type of morality?
  • duskwuff 10y ago
    Who cares what the truth of the situation is? The person who either owns the account, or is being impersonated by it (depending on who you believe), wants that account to be closed. The obvious solution is to oblige them. :)
• kevsim 10y ago
  > I was surprised anyone could have such a poor understanding of asterisks. Amazing :-)