THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Ichirou on January 04, 2010, 08:08:56 PM
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(CNN) -- A dating site that markets itself as an elite community for beautiful people with a "strict ban on ugly people" has axed about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the holiday season.
The international site BeautifulPeople.com threw out members after they posted photos "revealing that they have let themselves go," according to a company statement.
"As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld," said Robert Hintze, founder of BeautifulPeople.com. "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded."
The site describes itself as an "elite online club, where every member works the door" -- that is, users can join only after enough members vote them "beautiful" during the 48 hours after their profile is uploaded.
And apparently, enough beautiful people were angry that some members had enjoyed a bit too many treats during the holiday season.
So BeautifulPeople.com sent those flagged members e-mails, according to the company statement, telling them they could register again for the site when the extra pudge was gone.
"We responded to complaints by moving the newly chubby members back to the rating stage. This is the same as having them re-apply," Greg Hodge, managing director of BeautifulPeople.com, said in a statement.
The company said it "expelled" 1,520 users from the U.S., 832 from the U.K., 533 from Canada, 510 from Poland, 425 from Germany, 402 from Italy, 323 from France, 220 from Denmark, 176 from Turkey and 88 people from Russia. In the e-mail, it gave users suggestions for boot camps and workout facilities to get themselves back in shape.
Some gave the site a shot again, hoping fellow users might not see them as the "fatties" others had.
"Their re-applications were reviewed by existing members, and only a few hundred were voted back in. Over 5,000 were rejected," Hodge added.
Hodge admits, and has admitted from the time his company started, that his site may not be fair, but people want to date someone they are attracted to.
"Is it elitist? Yes, it is, because our members want it to be," Hodge said when the company started out in 2005. "Is it lookist? Yes, it is, because our members want it to be. Is it PC? No, it's not, but it's honest."
And on this site, beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder; only one in five applicants is normally accepted, a company statement said.
Maintaining those standards is what the site is about, Hodge said, and that's why people were expelled.
"Every year we see that some of our members from Western cultures eat and drink to excess over the holidays, and clearly their looks suffer," he said in a statement. "The U.S.A. has been grossly over-indulging since Thanksgiving. It's no wonder that so many members have been expelled from the network. We hope they will be back after shedding the festive pounds."
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I lol'd.
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thank goodness. Finding women up to my standards was getting to be a chore.
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Can we please start a fake profile there?
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Can we please start a fake profile there?
we can and must!
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:'(
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Dont worry willco. bbw-chan will accept you.
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Can we please start a fake profile there?
we can and must!
Use Bob's photo.
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I was going to say
Can we please start a fake profile there?
we can and must!
Use Bob's photo.
I was going to suggest this :-*
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I nominate Wrika. :bow
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Bob would get rejected. Maybe when he gets a haircut.
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I nominate Wrika. :bow
But I'm already using wrika's photo for my okcupid account.
I mean. . . . :ninja
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Bob would get rejected. Maybe when he gets a haircut.
That's what I keep telling people!
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I nominate Propaghandi, wherever he is :drool
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I'm just going to make an account using the picture of a random hottie from the picture thread. Then, once I get a girl to like me, I'll reveal my hideousness, but she'll be so attracted to my personality, it won't matter to her. :heartbeat
Or more likely, she'll get complain and get me removed from the site. :(
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"Too ugly to sign up? Browse BeautifulPeople as a guest." :rofl
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Gonna use Shake's pic to sign up. :heartbeat
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Well, you'll have 48 hours at least.
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What does the guy who owns the site look like? Better not be a fatty. :wag
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Why would beautiful people need a dating site?
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What does the guy who owns the site look like? Better not be a fatty. :wag
His picture's in the article. He's not a fatty. :o
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Why would beautiful people need a dating site?
to spare us from the ugly people that don't have enough decency to keep themselves indoors
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damn, they won't let me in cause there's too much traffic
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damn, they won't let me in cause there's too much traffic
Yeah, that's the reason they won't let you in. ;)
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I nominate Propaghandi, wherever he is :drool
I couldn't even get passed their login page. I vote Kosma.
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Maybe I should try Cheebs' picture instead. :T
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Maybe I should try Cheebs' picture instead. :T
Use Sp0rk's.
:sp0rsk1
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I...somehow don't think that'd work.
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(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e86/PhoenixDark1/n30318028_34575252_3382.jpg?t=1262806724)
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so sensitive. :heartbeat
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so sensitive. :heartbeat
He'll go get a manicure with you. :-*
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Black dudes just canceled their account en mass.
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Black dudes just canceled their account en mass.
All I get is PMs and pokes and woos from fat chicks on PlentyOfFish and OkCupid :-\
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Black dudes just canceled their account en mass.
All I get is PMs and pokes and woos from fat chicks on PlentyOfFish and OkCupid :-\
PD is too white.
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meh, cookies > nookie anyhow
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Black dudes just canceled their account en mass.
All I get is PMs and pokes and woos from fat chicks on PlentyOfFish and OkCupid :-\
PD is too white.
What's white about that lol? There's a difference between thick and fat. For some reason black and latinas can pull the thick look off with ease, but white girls use a variety of tricks to hide their fatness.
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(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/01/04/dating.site.overweight/story.beautifulpeoplefounde.jpg)
The guy on the left is the founder.
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So I have to get a faux hawk to join? :-\
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(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/01/04/dating.site.overweight/story.beautifulpeoplefounde.jpg)
Tucker Max's latest conquest?
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(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/01/04/dating.site.overweight/story.beautifulpeoplefounde.jpg)
The guy on the left is the founder.
His boyfriend is Peter Petrelli.
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nip tuck rejects
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(http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/01/04/dating.site.overweight/story.beautifulpeoplefounde.jpg)
The guy on the left is the founder.
Urgh, this brings a whole new realm of hypocrisy into the creation of this website.
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They look like they belong on Jersey Shore :lol
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Using http://www.morphthing.com (http://www.morphthing.com), I tried to morph Blue Tsunami with BobfromPikeCreek, figuring it would result in a world-devouring pair of hot man-lips that none could deny.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/hotgraham/BobTsunami.jpg)
Instead of "Touchdown", it came out a bit more "Touch-of-the Downs", sadly. Hmm. Back to the drawing board.