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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by robryan on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @08:35AM (#2170152)
So your saying that every message received came from a real user of the website?
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by nicferrier on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @08:42AM (#2170166)
I don't know what he received so I can't say. But our tools promote real users interacting with real users. Maybe Robin could talk to us if he has a problem.

Horses for courses not withstanding.

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by robinwauters on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:46AM (#2170369)
I got about 5 messages the first 2-3 minutes after signing up. A short while later, I had roughly 20 random women contacting me. Good thing I have screenshots, because they stopped coming as soon as WooMe noticed my post.

I can only see what these supposedly real women are trying to tell or ask me until I pay up. That's all fine and dandy, but there's no point in pretending that real users were just all jumping on the opportunity to meet a horse in such a short time period.

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by metageek on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:13AM (#2170481)
You're doing this for work, right? Why not go ahead and pay the $25 and see what the messages say?
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by marcusEting on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:57AM (#2170656)
Yes, I'm curious to see how they deal with a response to the messages. Seems like it would be a lot of trouble for them to do anything besides send some fake messages and not reply to them (although I guess they could automate those, too).

It would really be interesting to create a second account, or even a second paid account, and see if any of the messages were exactly the same.

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by rayval on Thursday February 03, 2011 @04:53AM (#2174248)
Because it could be one of those services that is hard to cancel without cancelling the credit card.
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by redthrowaway on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @08:54AM (#2170210)
"I don't know what he received so I can't say."

Speak straight. Do you or do you not send automated messages or messages from fake accounts in an effort to entice visitors to sign up?

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by nicferrier on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:00AM (#2170232)
we do not.
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by qeorge on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:24AM (#2170305)
Bullshit.

http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/woome.png

Yeah, that's a "real" dater.

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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by dolinsky on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:48AM (#2170377)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2170185
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by nicferrier on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:27AM (#2170315)
that's not a message from a user.
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by tluyben2 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:10AM (#2170471)
It however looks like a user and people will think it's a user. So it's a fake user.
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by tptacek on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:11AM (#2170260)
Are you aware of any process by which new users are sent automated messages from accounts, valid or not?
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by jorgeortiz85 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:36AM (#2170343)
They might be paying commission to users that get other users to pay for membership. That would generate very bot-like behavior even if the users are "real".
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by redthrowaway on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:04AM (#2170239)
Is it your belief that the messages in question are genuine?
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Re:WooMe: TechCrunch40 Finalist, $20 Million In Funding – An... by robinwauters on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:38AM (#2170348)
Stop pretending I'm not engaging in a conversation.
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