fake profiles, spam, etc.

Ray wrote: Would the administrator of Hey-ai! please not send any more emails to me.
I requested account deletion, yet you still contact me.

I made a suggestion on this thread, which an admin took personally, and became defensive and rude.

My suggestions and coments were made purely because of my concern for minors on this site, who may be targeted by sexual preditors hiding behind photos that are not their own.

I was not going to log on to this site again. But I found two not very pleasant emails from the site creator in my inbox. And I do not wish to receive any more. I will not be signing in again.

Goodbye and good luck to you all.

Karyuu wrote: Yes indeed they are.
Our standard procedure in the case of a dubious pic is to contact the people and ask them to give us an actively used facebook account that shows it's the same person or cam up on skype. In the case of pictures that we can confirm that they're from a celeb it's to contact them and ask them to replace the picture with one of their own, and also show up on skype. If they don't do that they get banned.
This usually takes about a week.
If you guys want us to delete confirmedly fake pictures right away, you can make such a suggestion in this forum or thread.

However, people seem to want us to ban everyone like that right away, and also delete all forum posts that are somewhat edgy. That is, for everyone else, but not for themselves, for themselves they want rights such as free speech and self-expression.

Most people who use fake pics have ill intents (or intents that we never find out cause they just don't reply to us), but about 20% do show up on skype, and said they just wanted to make an experiment or a joke something, agree to follow our rules and become contributing members of the site.

Of course an administration that just deleted and banned everything dubious that they came across would mean much less work for us and a lot of forums do it that way, but I don't want this to be a place where members are tiptoeing around knowing that they may be punished instantly for any rule even though they didn't know it existed and didn't mean to cause any harm.

So I think a week is a fair period of time for our members (who might have a real life too) to react if they want to stay on the site, and I don't think any girl will attach her heart to a profile with a k-pop-star in a week so much that it causes her serious heartache ... I mean mostly those get warning comments in their guestbook anyways and these fake people tend not to write back that much as far as I've observed anyways ...


but yeah, if anyone wishes to suggest some method that would work about how we should deal with this stuff, please go ahead ... But please think about something that you could also live with and understand if you were the one doing the offense.