Snezana (Zhana) Vrangalova says she had the approval of a “CS administrators.” to spam? all the groups on couchsurfing with her survey on couchsurfing, safety, and sexuality. Does the approval of one person make it right ?
Also do you consider this spam ?
is an inappropriate attempt to use email, or another networked communications facility by sending the same message to numerous people who didn’t ask for it.
www.nrw.qld.gov.au/about/policy/documents/2976/definitions.html
Some of the questions from the survey
Q Have you ever had sex with a guest you didn’t know before? This includes, but is NOT limited to intercourse, and can refer to oral sex, anal sex, mutual masturbation, and other sexual behaviors.
Q If you answered “Yes” to the above questions, with how many different guests have you had sexual encounters with?
Q If you had more than one sexual experience with a guest while hosting, please describe up to two of the most memorable ones (using the same prompts as above).
Q In your past experiences, how often have you expected/hoped that a guest would have sex with you during their stay?
Q In your past experiences, how often have you felt that your guest was expecting/hoping to have sex with you?
Snezana Vrangalova grad, whose research delves into the world of casual relationships, explained that while a person uses a website for the sole purpose of finding sex, many other people that are on the website are looking for the same.
The main reason people go through these websites is simply for pleasure. Women much more often engage in casual sex with the intention that it will lead to a relationship. Men do it to increase or maintain their status in their peer group.”
Wow !! Couchsurfing with the hope to have sex? Humm guess cultural exchange was just the smoke screen?
Guess that there is one other person on my blocklist (yes, that’s you Harg). I cannot think why CS would *NOT* already have kicked the user when this would be thought of unappropiate. Then: CS has quite good things in the system, for instance, multiple copies of the same email, to block spammers.
Diederik@ when this would be thought of unappropiate.
Do you mean inappropriate?
And looks like the system admin cannot detect a spammer?
As so it is all about sex?
Yeah, sorry for the typo.
Or it is approved by the system??
I don’t think Zhana’s multiple postings about her survey were an outright case of spamming…it fell into a gray area.
She was sincere in her attempt to invite people to answer the questions in her survey. I think she wanted a large cross-section of CS members to participate so that her findings would be statistically more accurate…and to accomplish this she posted in many different groups.
Unfortunately IMO she didn’t understand the web culture she was entering. She had not been an active member of any group prior to her multiple postings…so she was requesting help from people with whom she had no relationship. Her multiple postings seemed weirdly aggressive coming from a stranger, especially given the very sensitive and intimate nature of the survey….and her breezy invitation to participate. We all know that text posted to the internet is notoriously insecure: Why should the active group members trust her or believe her promise to not share the data? She had not given any information about herself to them, so why should they give info about themselves to her?
Zhana invited a lot of rancor and scrutiny of her survey by coming on too strong, too fast…especially with a sensitive, scintillating subject in a study which was poorly written and of dubious scientific worth. Is this spam? I don’t know.
Humm I wonder how she could have posted the same message on 100+ groups ?
@Diederik
By that quote below it shows she have permission by the CS administrators .
Why were they excited about the survey. Was it the part where the people are asked to describe their sexual encounter in detail?
“please describe up to two of the most memorable ones (using the same prompts as above).”??
@Margaret
Well she is quoted as an “expert on casual relationships “ where she says the main reason people go through these websites is simply for pleasure. Women much more often engage in casual sex with the intention that it will lead to a relationship.
And so she wants to prove that people go through couchsurfing for the sex.
I wonder when a couchsurfer ask a 60+ woman for hosting would that mean……
hahah Davy…you make a good point. I think the only reason people go to these sites is for pleasure…but not restricted to sexual pleasure:)
for being such a PhD student, this girl seems to have a significant problem with her approach on collecting data.
her concept didnt work out well, now she is attempting to spam up her respondents and sample size. i hope she wont get a phd in anything, but instead go and resort to theology or some other mysticism, since thats where such procedures belong.
Wilder still is the story of Sexy Suzie, a twenty-eight-year-old CouchSurfing ambassador who was verified by no less than the site’s founder, Casey Fenton, under her real name. Sexy Suzie maintains a second profile for hookups, however — the profile links to her MySpace blog, which anonymously details her experiences attending swinging parties with other couch surfers.
One American couch surfer who prefers to be called Nyla attended a party organized through the website in East London. After an hour of drinking Pimms, she met another member and found herself immediately attracted. They made it as far as the back doorway of a church, she says, “and pawed each other’s clothes off until we were both mostly naked, kissing and going down on each other.” nerve.com
Let’s all stick to the Issues:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5tmnBeNv18
sorry to spam you with off/topic all, but I couldn’t resist promoting these cool guys in some way
I wanna do suzi man!! I wanna be on the swinging network.
davy if you ask a 60+ woman for a couch that means you like to do gran.
You guys are really dumb!! Couchsurfing was created to find a sexual partner. Right from the top to the bottom .
Casey hooked up with heather and dani, then found hillary and jelena the pink bunnies.
Sex is Good ! Exotic pussycats are so much more fun. Bald pussy cats like the Sphynx Cat .
I , I have to spread love
All over the world ,
The world , the world….x 10
Couch test casting in Hollywood
Makes me feel so nasty and makes me feel so good
And when I’m through with you baby
There’s a street pump waiting just for you yeah!
Humm hope the PR team starts some damage control!! Manybe get some of those bush super spin doctors.
On the french group
It is posters like humperdenik that make this site what is: pointless, insulting garbage. OCS: getting further and further from the CS spirit, one insulting post at a time.
If OCS is any kind of a model for what “Open CouchSurfing” would be like I’ll take the “closed” version any day.
To “observing the decline” (which, as far as silly nicks go, earns
a lot of silly points in my book): I don’t consider humperdeniks
posts “pointless, insulting garbage”. Could you point out how they
were?
As for taking the “closed” version any day — it has been being
shoved up your throat from day one, so why bother commenting here,
where you could be enjoying the dead-end?
Cheers,
Tom
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Thanks For keeping it on point!
Best Regards