• Website bans fat/ugly people - I'm sorry Facepunch.
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Dating and social network site BeautifulPeople.com has axed some 5,000 members following complaints that they had gained weight. The members were singled out after posting pictures of themselves that reportedly showed they had put on pounds over the holiday period. The site allows entry to new members only if existing members vote them as sufficiently attractive to warrant it. The US, the UK, and Canada topped the list of excluded members. The site has always been unrepentant about its selection process, calling itself "the largest network of attractive people in the world". The move was reportedly prompted by members themselves, who police the membership of the site to maintain a high - if highly subjective - standard of attractiveness. "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 site founder Robert Hintze. "Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded. - link: [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8439495.stm[/url] This particular article specifically talks about how 5000 members where banned after deemed to put on to much weight over the Holidays. However this site has been in the news before. To become a member you have to submit a photo of yourself – then the current members deem if you are good looking enough to join. The figures speak for themselves with only 1/8 males getting accepted and 3/20 females. I want peoples’ opinions on this site. I personally think it is brilliant – of course I mean this from a Marketing perspective. I mean is it wrong to create a website that only beautiful people can join? I don’t think so! I’m sure weight watchers wouldn’t let a skinny person join! The site by the way is called [url]www.beautifulpeople.com[/url]
oh look, this happened about a month ago
[QUOTE=Faunts;20009578]oh look, this happened about a month ago[/QUOTE] fuckoff cracker hillbillie
An aggressive one he is.
[img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/information.png[/img] this is old [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/information.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Kybalt;20009670][img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/information.png[/img] this is old [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/information.png[/img][/QUOTE] I've never heard of it so it's not old for me
Either way, it's still pretty stupid. I wonder how physically large the people were that they gave the boot to. Just because someone is a little pudgy doesn't mean they aren't hot.
I hate that website, it's just wrong in every respect.
Someone needs to hack it and :barf: it up.
They want to make money. Think of how many people who would be like "That chick/dude was fat. Wtf? I'm done with this site."
Wasn't this posted in the news section like 2 months ago?
They were taking up bandwidth. HAR HAR HAR.
Rate him clocks if you feel this is unfair. [editline]05:00PM[/editline] And well played to the poster above me.
There was a thread about this in the news area around 3-4 months ago :rolleyes: It was full of awesome puns, too.
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