SploshDating (dot.com)
Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 13:43I guess it was inevitable, but now there's http://www.sploshdating.com
[EDIT - OK - seems I'm off the ball, and there's already a thread warning about this lot - won't do any harm to leave this though, I guess.]
Splosh dating - Yeah, right - by their own admission (i.e. via their own links), these guys run over 7,500 dating and social sites!!! Talk about covering every dating angle with exactly the same candidates and a new front page...
The whole site's a scam - they're auto-propagating user content (that automatically becomes theirs under their terms of contract), automatically responding to non-responding emails, and automatically updating paid for credits upon use. I quote from their conditions:
"We shall automatically assume an instruction to automatically top up an account of Credits, whenever you have such an account and shall continue to keep the account topped up until you instruct otherwise by using the settings on the site or until your membership of the Service is terminated for any reason.
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By posting Content to any public area of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, disclose and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing for all purpose connected to operating and promoting the Site and the Service.
We reserve the right to automatically respond to all member to member messaging, in those cases where an individual member has not personally responded. Messages with no recipient response will receive a reply after an appropriate period of time determined by Global Personals."
Interestingly, support is via an email address for http://www.whitelabeldating.com - which claims to provide an out-of-the-box, PRE-POPULATED total dating solution for anyone to stick a front page on and add a URL to, apparantly. So there you have it - no wonder all the dating sites are the same!
[EDIT - OK - seems I'm off the ball, and there's already a thread warning about this lot - won't do any harm to leave this though, I guess.]
Splosh dating - Yeah, right - by their own admission (i.e. via their own links), these guys run over 7,500 dating and social sites!!! Talk about covering every dating angle with exactly the same candidates and a new front page...
The whole site's a scam - they're auto-propagating user content (that automatically becomes theirs under their terms of contract), automatically responding to non-responding emails, and automatically updating paid for credits upon use. I quote from their conditions:
"We shall automatically assume an instruction to automatically top up an account of Credits, whenever you have such an account and shall continue to keep the account topped up until you instruct otherwise by using the settings on the site or until your membership of the Service is terminated for any reason.
...
By posting Content to any public area of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, disclose and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing for all purpose connected to operating and promoting the Site and the Service.
We reserve the right to automatically respond to all member to member messaging, in those cases where an individual member has not personally responded. Messages with no recipient response will receive a reply after an appropriate period of time determined by Global Personals."
Interestingly, support is via an email address for http://www.whitelabeldating.com - which claims to provide an out-of-the-box, PRE-POPULATED total dating solution for anyone to stick a front page on and add a URL to, apparantly. So there you have it - no wonder all the dating sites are the same!