I've been messaging Mingle2 Support, to ask them a specific question relating to the large numbers of women in their early twenties who appear on my site, and 'advertise their wares'.

Each time, I receive a 'no reply' automated message advising me to adjust my message-filtering specifications. When I then try to send them another message (including a 'snip' of my filtering page showing that I don't want to hear from anyone below 40), either it is rejected, or I get yet another automated no-reply message.......and the 20-odd year-old lot keep pouring in.

My message (including the 'snip' of the page in question which I know is of use when they are checking comments), reads as follows:

"This (followed by the'snip')
is my 'filters' page, as it normally is.

All those I delete, are in their early 20's.
If I want to check back, I find that DELETED visitors have had their profiles de-activated.
Does this mean that my simply DELETING them (as opposed to BLOCKING them, which takes time), is the best/only way to do this?

keithpl2"

Can a Mingle2 monitor kindly advise me as to how to deal with this please?

kpl

Theoretically, Deleting and Blocking take the same amount of time,
BLOCKING being the best choice because you will not see them again.

If I may......

Deleting say, 6 people takes 2 seconds: reporting/blocking 1 person takes at least ten times as long.

My key question is: "does simply deleting them (as opposed to reporting/blocking them) prevent those particular ones from re-appearing?"

I seem unable to get an answer to this. Do you have any ideas as to how I might get one?!

Thanks for your assistance.

kpl

As Soufie (a seasoned site mod) has mentioned, your best bet is to block which does take more time initially, but saves time in the long run.

Short answer is not exactly, best bet to block. Think of delete as a "soft" remove and block as a "hard" remove.

If this site were paid for, I would expect staff to vet every person who applies for membership, but as it is a free site that is too much to ask.

If you delete a message, that is all that happens, that message is deleted. You cannot 'delete' a person, but you can block them.

What you have probably noticed is that the offending type of person you describe does get removed by the site. People (like me) report and block those who are obviously just here to advertise their own websites. Sometimes they are blocked very quickly, especially those who seem to have forgotten to get dressed before having a picture taken for the site.

They don't message me, because my filters are set to an age they won't reach for many years, and my distance is set to being local to me. These people are almost always in some other part of the world, far away from me.

They do however view my profile and those are the ones I block and report. I notice that when I spend time here on the forums I get many views but if I am looking at other parts of the site I don't get any. My assumption is that they are viewing active members, and the best way to do that is to click on the profiles of members who have recently posted to the forums.

Enjoy your time here, that's the important thing!

I might assume you are on a mobile device because on a PC
clicking either 'Delete' or 'Block' takes the same amount
of time, one click.

Again, Blocking is a wiser choice because anyone 'deleted'
can resubmit.

Thank you for your help on this -
and thanks to the two people above[you] for their comments.

The long and the short of it is, I BLOCK !

kpl

I do have one question though.
If my filters specify 'women 40-65', how do those aged 20 get through?

Ideas?

Got it.

Thank you.

kpl

All they can do is view , save you as a favorite, and send a friends request. If you don't respond to any of that they can't send you a message.