some people join and make a profile with a description and photos, but then have never logged in after the date they joined!

anybody else find this irritating when the person actually seem particularly likeable?

I have probably been guilty of it on other sites. When I first signed up to these type sites, I signed up to loads of them. Some of which I havent been on since.

But I'm only interested in forums, and not really dating off these sites too be honest.

Hi, Ambi91, welcome to the Flirtbox forums.

It is annoying, but you'll work around it.
Either that, or go and see every single one and say to them, face-to-face, 'You're very irritating! But you are attractive and interesting... What are you doing Wednesday... Or Friday, or Saturday!'

After a period of time, say 6 months or a year, they should really be deleted. But I doubt there's any interest in doing that, since the numbers would drop considerably.
Best thing to do is trawl the people Online (at the top) and message any you like to sound of, or that look good to you. If you want to be keener, hit the Want To Meet button - that tells them you are interested (If they look at their WTMs - do you? ) and you can see if they visit your profile or message you, etc.
There are various ways to search and some results can be ordered so the most recent logged on comes up first.
You can always stay and contribute to the topics on the forum. There are a lot of young, handsome men here - some more handsome than others, some younger!

You have an excellent profile, so you'll get loads of messages - whether they'll be appropriate or not! Don't forget you can Block any you don't want to hear from again and you can report other users.

You can sit back and wait... But it's best to go and find what you want!
Good luck and good hunting!
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that wanting to meet thing doesnt do anything..mines mostly filled up with cam models

but say if the profiles were deleted after 6 months etc, all those people that recently came back (baggie and stu? i think?) how long were they gone for? Yeah they could remake a profile n tha, but your shit all gets lost.

I may have had more comebacks than a yoyo but at least I have the decency to delete my account each time I leave

Yes, abandoned profiles are annoying... I tend not to message newbies for that reason - often they join, then bugger off immediately.

Like every other aspect of this site, you've gotta learn to work with it

when i went off the forums for a while, i still came back and replied to the entire 3 messages i got in that erm... 9'ish months ? !
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I think people have to join to see what the site is actually like to use, but then very quickly may realise that it's not for them, or the majority of their messages are being ignored, or some might belong to several sites and one comes up trumps for them, they don't know how to delete their profile.....or they expect to return sometime and don't want to re-write their profile... all manner of reasons I guess.

My would 'like to meet' isn't full of 'cam guys' it consists mainly of all those I've placed a block on, and some regular 'peepers' who never message.
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I dont actually see what the problem is though? Makes no difference to me and im pretty sure most wouldnt bother to send a message after seeing that they havent logged in since?

What i dont get is how they can become it in to the top 5 though? I mean there is no way they would receive the most views?