"prelude to a lawsuit"... When you were a kid and another kid threatened to beat you up, it was always the case that the more they talked about the less likely

"prelude to a lawsuit"... When you were a kid and another kid threatened to beat you up, it was always the case that the more they talked about the less likely it was to happen. The ones that were a genuine threat just tended to hit first and talk second. I've always found the same thing about legal action. The more someone makes vague threats the less credible their claim seems. If you haven't spoken to a lawyer, don't make reference to any sort of legal action (and if you have spoken to a lawyer they'll tell you to keep your powder dry on publicly announcing it too)... On an aside, since most people manage to get through life without such an offensive profile being created about them on a dating site, I'd respectfully suggest that once the author has successfully found the "delete" button, he perhaps considers if he could have done anything differently to avoid being in a situation where someone was that p*ssed with him... (not justifying or condoning the actions of the profile creator, just espousing my personal preference for avoiding trivial confrontations in the first place)