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Icebreakers...a question for the women...and the men  

LiveLifeDoU 69F  
1163 posts
7/11/2016 7:54 am
Icebreakers...a question for the women...and the men

If you currently have free gold because you are participating in the Icebreakers Program...would you give up your free gold to stop participating in that program?

The Icebreaker messages go to new standard members who can't read the Icebreaker message...but they can read the pop-up message that the site attaches to the Icebreaker message, to upgrade so they can read the Icebreaker message...and all other messages.

What do you think would happen if most of the women protested the fact that the site is using the Icebreaker Program to entice new members to upgrade to gold by backing out of the Icebreaker program?
I think the site would then just create more fake profiles to automatically contact new members instead of the women participating in the Icebreaker program.
I don't think the site would just sit back and say 'oh well', when the Icebreaker numbers dropped substantially.
What do you think?
I_willoralu 49M
1684 posts
7/11/2016 8:12 am

 I think the icebreaker message thing is stupid. It makes no sense to send an email to someone that you are not interested in.
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LiveLifeDoU replies on 7/11/2016 9:05 am:
From what I understood, the icebreaker message was more of a welcome to the site and an offer to help navigate the site as opposed to a 'hey, I'm interested in you personally' kind of thing.

Horny_Holly 43F
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2767 posts
7/11/2016 8:29 am

 I doubt the site would care, to be honest.

They're giving out a lot of VIP and gold memberships to people who they claim have popular pictures, get a lot of likes and so on. In some instances this is true. However, I've seen women with VIP status who have very few photographs and/or likes, so it doesn't make sense.

When I joined the site I did sign up for the icebreaker programme, but I also wrote in my icebreaker that the messages were sent by the site and not me. So it was not to be taken as an indication that I was interested in them.
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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
7/13/2016 10:56 am

 I think the site has effectively demonstrated that they will resort to subterfuge...OK, lying, to try to get male members to pay for memberships. So you could probably have some effect by boycotting icebreakers, but I doubt it would result in greater honesty from the site.

I'm not crazy about the icebreaker, but I do answer the responses I get from them in the interest of honesty- I don't want to further mislead new members who've already been misled by the site. But I only answer the ones that are polite and coherent. Frankly, it doesn't seem like that big a price to pay for the gold card. I think the site has been fairly generous to me when it comes to the gold status.
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