The site does not deactivate anyone without cause.
Some folks deactivate every time they log off.

For suspected scammers, upper right on every profile
you will see 'Report This User' for convenience.

That's always good to hear. Have there been cases where bullying has taken place towards anyone (I.e . falsely accuse the person of abuse or poor onsite behavior)?

What is the research process for such cases.

Is an account upgrade the best way to avoid scammers or issues?

Bullying is easily reported as are all posts and/or
emails of concern.

All done anonymously to protect everyone's privacy.
Anything in the forums is acted upon instantly.

Forum misbehaviors can be seen by everyone and are
adjudicated and acted upon. If someone gets reported as
a scammer and is not, nothing happens.

We simply adhere to the rules:
http://mingle2.com/topic/show/249134

I cannot think how the upgrade would improve either of
the 2 things you mentioned but you can check that here
as it has some great features:
http://mingle2.com/welcome/faq_premium

Thank you for the time you have taken to address my concerns and questions. I found them to be very helpful. Based on what you have stated, I believe at least one of my friends were targeted falsely and did not engage in the behavior as stated in the posted policy.

You are wonderful :)

Hello,

I had a great friend on this site who disappeared 3 days ago. Whenever I want to see his profile this message pops out: cute69khan's account has been deactivated.
Is there any possibility that he was banned from the site and he can come back later?
If he was banned is there a way how I could find out for how long?

I had the same thing happen to me ... I had been talking to someone for almost a month now..I didn't have any flags go up that he was a scammer and he never asked me for anything.. Yesterday we were chatting as usual back and forth.. He sent a message and I replied, but 15 minutes later I sent another message and got the message that his account had been deactivated... I was just confused about it... What sucks the most is he seemed like a really nice guy....

Hi everyone,

I had my account deactivated. I did not do it myself. The message I get when I try to login says it was automatically deactivated and that mingle2 is researching. If it is found out that it is unwarrented then the account will be re-activated soon. Or something close to that. The problem is that once it's deactivated, you can not contact Mingle2 to ask what the problem is. Nor do they bother to contact you to let you know anything. Further, there is no phone number or website to talk to anyone from Mingle2 with. I have created this temporary account in order to contact them with but more than likely they will not investigate the other account or talk to me about it because it is considered a different member account. So what the moderator said about them not deactivating a members account is not true. Mingke2 has yet to contact me and help me with my case. I am definitely not a scammer and I am on this site for the right reason. I am not a paying customer so I suspect that Mingle2 has deactivated because of that. My username is Whereismylioness. Can someone try to contact me and let me know on this account what message you get?

Thanks

anyone can "seem" like a nice person over the internet... so how do you know he wasn't talking with 20 other women at the same time? suspicious behavior is suspicious behavior...

all you really know is that he was nice to you, you don't know if 15 other women thought that at first too, and now were complaining about him wanting them to send him a plane ticket, or money for his hurt dog...

scammers know what to say to make you trust them, otherwise their wouldn't be so many of them...