Dating Site Cuts Off the Fat

the4thdimension writes "Online dating site BeautifulPeople.com has apparently decided to cancel over 1,500 of its customers because they were found to have put on too much weight this holiday season. The site, which bases its business model on having only attractive people on its site, requires that a user be voted in by current members as being beautiful in a 48 hour period. The site claims that having overweight people on its site is directly damaging to its business model, but promises that expelled members can register again once they lose the weight."

Comments

mandatory

[Anonymous Coward]

Worst. Dating Site. Ever.

          -- Comic Book Guy

Re:mandatory

[jayme0227]

Honestly, if you're shallow enough to sign up for a dating website for beautiful people only, can you really complain if you get kicked out?

Re:mandatory

[Locke2005]

Honestly, if you're stupid enough to sign up for a dating website for beautiful people using your own, un-photoshopped picture instead of one culled from an online fashion magazine, can you really complain if you get rejected?

Curses, my plan to sign up using a fictional perfect persona then gradually morph myself into the fat, bald little bastard I really am has been foiled!

Why is this on slashdot?

[Locke2005]

I'm fairly certain the intersection of the set of slashdot members and the set of beautiful people members is a null set!

Re:Why is this on slashdot?

[Locke2005]

"I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member" -- Groucho Marx

I have made no attempts to join Mensa or Beautiful People...

Re:Why is this on slashdot?

[Suki I]

"I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member" -- Groucho Marx I have made no attempts to join Mensa or Beautiful People...

I am so using that.

Re:Why is this on slashdot?

[icylucifer]

I'm fairly certain the intersection of the set of slashdot members and the set of beautiful people members is a null set!

I'm fairly certain that only slashdot members would choose to phrase that particular point in terms of set theory.

I was so going to do this

[Stepnsteph]

After the monumental amount of seriously obese people on OkCupid and other dating sites I seriously considered creating a dating site identical to this BeautifulPeople. While it's a shame that the idea has already been done (of course), it's good to see that the idea would have been a successful one.

Then there was the bait and switch that I had on OkCupid... some people have a very loose definition of "athletic". Anyway, I fully support the idea behind this particular dating website.

warning

[Darinbob]

A word of advice.

Do NOT visit uglypeople.com. Sure, it sounds like a good joke or a protest about these sorts of sites; but it's one of those Not Safe For Work places

Re:warning

[Suki I]

LOL! They were not that ugly either.

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