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Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:01 pm
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When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women’s profiles were fake. Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” of them were fake, though nobody put forth any evidence for such an enormous number. So I downloaded the data and analyzed it to find out how many actual women were using Ashley Madison, and who they were.
What I discovered was that the world of Ashley Madison was a far more dystopian place than anyone had realized. This isn’t a debauched wonderland of men cheating on their wives. It isn’t even a sadscape of 31 million men competing to attract those 5.5 million women in the database. Instead, it’s like a science fictional future where every woman on Earth is dead, and some Dilbert-like engineer has replaced them with badly-designed robots.
Those millions of Ashley Madison men were paying to hook up with women who appeared to have created profiles and then simply disappeared. Were they cobbled together by bots and bored admins, or just user debris? Whatever the answer, the more I examined those 5.5 million female profiles, the more obvious it became that none of them had ever talked to men on the site, or even used the site at all after creating a profile.
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When you look at the evidence, it’s hard to deny that the overwhelming majority of men using Ashley Madison weren’t having affairs. They were paying for a fantasy.
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A few years ago, a former employee of Ashley Madison sued the company in Canada over her terrible work conditions. She claimed that she’d gotten repetitive stress injuries in her hands after the company hired her to create 1,000 fake profiles of women in three months, written in Portuguese, to attract a Brazilian audience.
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Either way, we’re left with data that suggests Ashley Madison is a site where tens of millions of men write mail, chat, and spend money for women who aren’t there.
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Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:02 pm to GeauxToBed
The entire thing is a sham.
It's sad and hilarious that people took the 37 million number seriously.
It's sad and hilarious that people took the 37 million number seriously.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:05 pm to GeauxToBed
I don't think anyone is really going to be shocked by this. If a woman really wants to cheat she doesn't need her credit card info handy.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:05 pm to GeauxToBed
A good number of women probably just signed up to see if their husbands were on there.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:06 pm to GeauxToBed
This does not surprise me in the least. When I first heard about this site, it confused me why married women would go on the internet to cheat on their husbands.... there are already websites for that, and ultimately women don't need the internet to get laid.
Ashley Madison was suspect from the beginning.
Ashley Madison was suspect from the beginning.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:10 pm to GeauxToBed
Not surprising in the least when you stop and think about it.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:10 pm to GeauxToBed
I know a married woman who used the site. She's pretty open about discussing it.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:11 pm to deeprig9
All they need is the workplace.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:13 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Not surprising in the least when you stop and think about it.
So you're saying you struck out?
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:14 pm to Evolved Simian
Did she say what her reasoning was?
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:19 pm to Evolved Simian
6/10 attempt for you, there 
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:23 pm to GeauxToBed
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Either way, we’re left with data that suggests Ashley Madison is a site where tens of millions of men write mail, chat, and spend money for women who aren’t there.
Good. Those assholes deserve to lose their money.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:23 pm to Tantal
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good number of women probably just signed up to see if their husbands were on there.
According to the article all but a few thousand of the female accounts were fake and created for the purpose of creating the impression that women used the site.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:25 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Good. Those assholes deserve to lose their money
I certainly have no sympathy for them, and no problem laughing at their expense.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:49 pm to GeauxToBed
Can I get a refund?
Posted on 8/26/15 at 9:03 pm to GeauxToBed
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Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site
Not sure you understand this model.
Think when you go to a bar and have to pay (credit card)
A woman goes to a bar and everything is free (no credit card)
While I have no doubt the men far outweigh the women and it could easily be 50-1 or 100-1 but the issue is what data actually got released. My understanding is, the whole database did not get released, just the folks who paid (credit card) so like chicks getting into a bar with "ladies night" if they never had to cough up any dough, they never got tagged in the first place in the data the hackers dumped.
It is also interesting to note that years ago the top phone sex operator was actually a black man - wound up on Oprah or Donahue - who explained why he was so successful…
"I am a man, who better to know a man's fantasies"
My guess is when it comes to hook ups, men generally get dry humped so the other party can lift his wallet while he is distracted. Real or unreal, whoever created the site was like any other pyramid money scheme and are long gone with the money.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 8:16 am to GeauxToBed
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According to the article all but a few thousand of the female accounts were fake and created for the purpose of creating the impression that women used the site.
In other words, you're saying it is your typical internet dating site.
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women don't need the internet to get laid.
And this is really all that needs to be said.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 8:51 am to Cheese Grits
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the issue is what data actually got released
They break down a lot of metrics in the article. The data was math-heavy, so I just posted the conclusions but it's there if you care to review it and it's pretty convincing.
Essentially, the had ample data to conclude most of the profiles were fake, and of those they couldn't show were fake, most of the women never used the site.
They estimated that 12,000-13,000 of the supposed 5.5 million female "members" were actual, legitimate women who actually used the site.
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