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'''DontDateHimGirl.com''' is a [[website]] launched in July 2005, which provides a forum for women to discuss their dating experiences, and controversially, anonymously post profiles of men who they contend cheated or abused them. <ref name="cheating men">{{cite news | title=Cheating men caught online | author=Olbermann, Keith | date= September 30, 2005 | publisher = MSNBC | url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9543001/}} </ref> In a ''[[New York Times]]'' article, the site's founder Tasha Joseph likened it to a "dating credit report" for women. <ref name="name_here">{{cite news | title=(Name Here) Is a Liar and a Cheat | last=Alvarez|first=Lizette | date=2006-02-16 | publisher= ''[[New York Times]]'' | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/fashion/thursdaystyles/16WEB.html|accessdate=2011-03-08}}</ref>
'''DontDateHimGirl.com''' is a [[website]] launched in July 2005, which provides a forum for women to discuss their dating experiences, and controversially, anonymously post profiles of men who they contend cheated or abused them. <ref name="cheating men">{{cite news | title=Cheating men caught online | author=Olbermann, Keith | date= September 30, 2005 | publisher = MSNBC | url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9543001/}} </ref> Membership to the site is offered to anyone with a functioning email address. Members are able to anonymously post the name, photograph and a brief profile of a man they have dated. The site's [[terms of use]] requests that postings not contain anything untrue or defamatory <ref name="terms">{{cite web | title=Terms of Use | date=2011 | url=http://dontdatehimgirl.com/terms/ | publisher=DontDateHimGirl.com| accessdate=2011-03-08}}</ref> however, no information is checked for veracity prior to publication.


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Men can rebut postings made about them by logging on to the site and creating an account to post their comments, or directly contacting the authors of the postings made about them through a link that appears on each posting.<ref name="cheating men" />
Membership to the site is offered to anyone with a functioning email address. Members are able to anonymously post the name, photograph and a brief profile of a man they have dated. The site's [[terms of use]] requests that postings not contain anything untrue or defamatory <ref name="terms">{{cite web | title=Terms of Use | date=2011 | url=http://dontdatehimgirl.com/terms/ | publisher=DontDateHimGirl.com| accessdate=2011-03-08}}</ref> however, no information is checked for veracity prior to publication.

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The site's owner suggests that men can rebut postings made about them by logging on to the site and creating an account to post their comments, or directly contacting the authors of the postings made about them through a link that appears on each posting.<ref name="cheating men" />


In July 2010, the site issued a [[press release]] that it would be removing the "database of alleged cads" to refocus on "putting out quality content such as articles, videos and podcasts that help women learn to date better, forming content partnerships and creating engaging mobile platforms.”<ref name=BWPR>{{cite press release | title=DontDateHimGirl.com Set to Remove Postings of Alleged Cheaters from Site in 30 Days|publisher=Businesswire.com | date=July 19, 2010| url=http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100719006160&newsLang=en}}</ref>
In July 2010, the site issued a [[press release]] that it would be removing the "database of alleged cads" to refocus on "putting out quality content such as articles, videos and podcasts that help women learn to date better, forming content partnerships and creating engaging mobile platforms.”<ref name=BWPR>{{cite press release | title=DontDateHimGirl.com Set to Remove Postings of Alleged Cheaters from Site in 30 Days|publisher=Businesswire.com | date=July 19, 2010| url=http://eon.businesswire.com/portal/site/eon/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100719006160&newsLang=en}}</ref>
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==Controversies==
==Controversies==


The site has received criticism as a "reputation management system" which provides a venue for anonymously posting false, malicious or fraudulent profiles of men without an adequate means to to correct them.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reputation Management Systems, like "Don't Date Him Girl" Have Several Flaws to Work Out|url=http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/columns/industry/09-reputationmanagement.html|publisher=OnlineDatingMagazine.com|last=Tracey|first=Joe|accessdate=2011-03-08}}</ref>


In 2006, Todd Hollis, a [[Pennsylvania]] attorney, filed a suit against the website owner as well as two alleged posters and five unidentified women for material posted about him that included claims that he had a [[sexually transmitted disease]] and was [[gay]], neither of which were true. The lawsuit was initially dismissed in [[Pennsylvania]] for a lack of [[jurisdiction]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} The [[Electronic Freedom Foundation]] issued an [[amicus curiae]] brief in support of the site, arguing its owners were shielded from suits by the [[Communications Decency Act]] of 1996's [[Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act|Section 230]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eff.org/cases/dontdatehimgirl-com|publisher=[[Electronic Freedom Foundation]]|title=Cases:DontDateHimGirl.com|accessdate=2011-03-10}}</ref> In 2007, Hollis filed a second lawsuit in federal court in [[Florida]] which was also dismissed against the site operators.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}
In 2006, Todd Hollis, a [[Pennsylvania]] attorney, filed a suit against the website owner as well as two alleged posters and five unidentified women for material posted about him that included claims that he had a [[sexually transmitted disease]] and was [[gay]], neither of which were true. The lawsuit was initially dismissed in [[Pennsylvania]] for a lack of [[jurisdiction]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} The [[Electronic Freedom Foundation]] issued an [[amicus curiae]] brief in support of the site, arguing its owners were shielded from suits by the [[Communications Decency Act]] of 1996's [[Section_230_of_the_Communications_Decency_Act|Section 230]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eff.org/cases/dontdatehimgirl-com|publisher=[[Electronic Freedom Foundation]]|title=Cases:DontDateHimGirl.com|accessdate=2011-03-10}}</ref> In 2007, Hollis filed a second lawsuit in federal court in [[Florida]] which was also dismissed against the site operators.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}

A September 2006 article in the ''[[Miami New Times]]'' elaborated on a fabricated profile created to demonstrate that the "website is dangerous."<ref>{{cite news|title=Blind Date, Tasha Joseph's Website shows fiction is stranger than truth|last=Green|first=Joanne|publisher=''[[Miami New Times]]''|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-09-14/news/blind-date/1/|date=September 14, 2006|accessed-date=2011-03-08}}</ref> The ''Times'' investigated a number of profiles and found claims made were on on the whole, fallacious. One profile the ''Times'' uncovered supposedly of a philandering ex-boyfriend was actually a gay man who had spurned a woman's advances.

In an August 2007 feature, [[ABC News]] referred to DontDateHimGirl as a "revenge site." <ref>{{cite news|title=Internet Revenge Sites Challenge the Theory 'No Press Is Bad Press'|url=http://abcnews.go.com/icaught/Story?id=3452908&page=1|publisher=ABC News|date=August 8, 2007|accessdate=2011-03-08}}</ref> The following week, the [[O'Reilly Factor]] referenced DontDateHimGirl among others as a "hate site"<ref>{{cite web|title=Don't Date Him Girl Slammed as Hate Site|url=http://www.onlinedatingnewsblog.com/datingnews/dontdatehimgirl-27.html|publisher=OnlineDatingNewsBlog.com|accessdate=2011-03-08}}</ref>

While it was announced in July 2010 that the profiles of the men on the site would be removed, as of March 2011, the database can still be accessed and searched through the site's mobile implementation.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=DontDateHimGirl.com|title=Mobile Search|accessdate=2011-03-08|url=http://dontdatehimgirl.com/mobi_search.php?|}}</ref>


==Spin-off projects==
==Spin-off projects==


On the DontDateHimGirl [[Blogger]] page, in December 2005, the owner announced preparations for a second site aimed at men called "DontDateHerMan.com" to be launched on Valentine's Day 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=MR. ERB SPEAKS! DONTDATEHERMAN.COM LAUNCHES & OUR CHEATERS OF THE DAY!|url=http://dontdatehimgirl.blogspot.com/2005/12/mr-erb-speaks-dontdatehermancom.html|publisher=DontDateHimGirl.blogspot.com|accessdate=10 March 2011|archiveurl=http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060219171708/http://dontdatehimgirl.blogspot.com/2005/12/mr-erb-speaks-dontdatehermancom.html
|archivedate=2006-02-19|date=21|month=12|year=2005}}</ref> The following year, she posted that, "we've decided not to launch DontDateHerMan.com after getting a flurry of e-mails from women denouncing my intention to create a site for men to post the pictures and profiles of women who have cheated on them."<ref>{{cite web|title=BACK AGAIN, AVERAGE GUY SAYS & SUNNY DAYS!|url=http://dontdatehimgirl.blogspot.com/2006/06/back-again-average-guy-says-sunny-days.html|publisher=DontDateHimGirl.blogspot.com|accessdate=10 March 2011|archiveurl=http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20060628022721/http://www.dontdatehimgirl.blogspot.com/|archivedate=2006-06-28|date=20|month=06|year=2006}}</ref> She related that emails condemned launching such a possible site as a "travesty to the sisterhood" in which "women will just be humiliated by guys."


In 2010, Tasha Cunningham debuted a book based on the site called ''DontDateHimGirl.com Presents: So the Bastard Broke Your Heart, Now What?'' published by Polka Dot Press.<ref>{{cite web | title= Adams Media| url=http://www.adamsmedia.com/online-media-room/press-releases/9|}}</ref>
In 2010, Tasha Cunningham debuted a book based on the site called ''DontDateHimGirl.com Presents: So the Bastard Broke Your Heart, Now What?'' published by Polka Dot Press.<ref>{{cite web | title= Adams Media| url=http://www.adamsmedia.com/online-media-room/press-releases/9|}}</ref>

Following on the site's success, the founder has gone onto launch a communications consulting firm, The Cunningham Group, in 2009 with her husband attorney Courtney Cunningham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecunninghamgroup.com/index.php?page=our_team|title=Our Team|publisher=TheCunninghamGroup.com|accessdate=2011-03-08}}</ref> The Group offers [[public relations]], [[reputation management]], [[marketing]] and [[social media]] experience, noting "The Miami Herald news has called one of our principals a 'pioneering web entrepreneur'"<ref>{{cite web|title=Practices|url=http://thecunninghamgroup.com/index.php?page=practices|publisher=The Cunningham Group|accessdate=10 March 2011}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Online reputation management]]
* [[online dating]]
* [[Cyber-bullying]]
* [[relationships]]
* [[Cyberstalking]]
* [[women]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 20:31, 10 March 2011

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DontDateHimGirl.com is a website launched in July 2005, which provides a forum for women to discuss their dating experiences, and controversially, anonymously post profiles of men who they contend cheated or abused them. [1] Membership to the site is offered to anyone with a functioning email address. Members are able to anonymously post the name, photograph and a brief profile of a man they have dated. The site's terms of use requests that postings not contain anything untrue or defamatory [2] however, no information is checked for veracity prior to publication.

Men can rebut postings made about them by logging on to the site and creating an account to post their comments, or directly contacting the authors of the postings made about them through a link that appears on each posting.[1]

In July 2010, the site issued a press release that it would be removing the "database of alleged cads" to refocus on "putting out quality content such as articles, videos and podcasts that help women learn to date better, forming content partnerships and creating engaging mobile platforms.”[3]

Controversies

In 2006, Todd Hollis, a Pennsylvania attorney, filed a suit against the website owner as well as two alleged posters and five unidentified women for material posted about him that included claims that he had a sexually transmitted disease and was gay, neither of which were true. The lawsuit was initially dismissed in Pennsylvania for a lack of jurisdiction.[citation needed] The Electronic Freedom Foundation issued an amicus curiae brief in support of the site, arguing its owners were shielded from suits by the Communications Decency Act of 1996's Section 230.[4] In 2007, Hollis filed a second lawsuit in federal court in Florida which was also dismissed against the site operators.[citation needed]

Spin-off projects

In 2010, Tasha Cunningham debuted a book based on the site called DontDateHimGirl.com Presents: So the Bastard Broke Your Heart, Now What? published by Polka Dot Press.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Olbermann, Keith (September 30, 2005). "Cheating men caught online". MSNBC.
  2. ^ "Terms of Use". DontDateHimGirl.com. 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  3. ^ "DontDateHimGirl.com Set to Remove Postings of Alleged Cheaters from Site in 30 Days" (Press release). Businesswire.com. July 19, 2010.
  4. ^ "Cases:DontDateHimGirl.com". Electronic Freedom Foundation. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
  5. ^ "Adams Media". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)


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