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> it's the whole concept of showing nothing unless you hand over your credit details this is how a lot of dating sites work. no contact unless you pay, no rec
by noodle 16y ago
> it's the whole concept of showing nothing unless you hand over your credit details
this is how a lot of dating sites work. no contact unless you pay, no receiving messages unless you pay. its also how classmates.com works, not just dating sites. and one of the reasons they were sued recently is due to business practices similar to this.
> pretending hot women are dying to contact you even though you're obviously not date material (unless they're into horses), the unsolicited emails
again, this is probably true, but there's no proof of it unless the dude signed up and found out for sure. more data required.
> the corny live chat box and pop-up message when you try to close it
shady indeed, but they're not the only place who makes use of this.
- robinwauters 16y agoThere seems to be a notion that I shouldn't call out WooMe because other sites are doing it too. I don't know where that is coming from.
- noodle 16y agocall out woome. the situation looks bad. it probably is bad. but call out woome with facts, not speculation. that is the notion.
- diziet 16y agoMy notion is that you should call out WooMe. Go for it. However, as an author it is your responsibility to try to research as much as possible. It does seem, from the surface level that you described, that those messages are spam/automatically generated. However one could come up with a semi-plausible bordering on the edge of legitimacy rationale why you had received those messages. Maybe WooMe discovered a novel way of nudging users towards communication with each other, maybe they get Achievement Points for sending messages to new users? Likely? Not really, However, chatting with a very cleverly disguised CTA does not constitute thorough research.