Franziska is deactivated after a very brief time on Mingle.

Thanks for teaching me a new word.

Like all glittering generalities, there's little truth in this one.

To amplify: don't mention your new-found wealth to anybody or you'll have people beating down your door in order to get a slice of the pie.

For a while, I saw plenty of blurred photos in profiles (I only have one photo in my profile).

The definition of organic varies widely, depending on who you talk to. Chemists have one definition (roughly, the chemistry of carbon compounds), grocers have another (foods that have been grown with less pesticides), and so on and so forth. Cyanide fits the chemist's definition but not the grocer's.

I was talking about the blurred photos in the profiles, not about those in recent activity.

While I agree that the service isn't good, for me the principle has become moot -- I have already paid for the rest of my life.

Most of my grocery costs are "organic" berries; those are not cheap. Whether I eat better than you is a matter of opinion.

When I joined in January, they offered a lifetime membership for around $90 -- about $10 more than for 6 months. With my statistically expected lifetime, that works out to between $8 and $10 per year. Economically, this expense is totally insignificant. For example, my groceries run around $70 a week, which is around $3600 a year -- at least 360 times more than the annual expense for Mingle.

Admittedly, the problems that they cause by unnecessary site changes and ill-advised policy changes are not good. IMO, the biggest problem is that they don't listen to their users and, when they do listen, they take forever to make the user-desired changes.

To be fair, they did recently make a good change: they stopped blurring profile photos.

Unfortunately, at times, you fail.

I believe that when you see a green dot, that profile is online.

Ashley Denny's account is deactivated.

The subject title smells of racism. Ideally, the preference should not be based on race, but on personality.

According to CheckPeople, that number is a landline and lists to a 58-year-old woman in Connecticut.

Good profile. Possibly more text in the "blurb" part.

How did you arrive at the specific figure of 95%?

What's the difference between a serious marriage and a marriage?

I suggest adding much to your narrative.

Strong words. In fact, since fraud is a criminal act, I'm not sure that fraud is justified. While the current management seems unwilling to improve the site, the site is still usable.

Possible but unlikely. This site has a lot of scammers, so the odds of finding a real person that meshes well with you are low.

Do you have any evidence to back up your statements?

Yes, Teacher! How long should I stay in the corner?