{"id":338,"date":"2013-02-20T23:16:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T23:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:41:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T14:41:37","slug":"holdingtheline-against-gamer-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/holdingtheline-against-gamer-stereotypes","title":{"rendered":"HoldingTheLine Against Gamer Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/icecream1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-340\" title=\"icecream1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/icecream1-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"LFG hates gamer stereotypes.\" width=\"240\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/icecream1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/icecream1.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Pop quiz for our faithful readers: how many features have we ran with about trying to break down those ever-stubborn gamer stereotypes? \u00a0You are right if you said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/gamer-dating-blog\/tag\/stereotypes\">this many<\/a>. \u00a0(If you&#8217;re too lazy to click the link, the answer is 6. \u00a07 if you count this one!) \u00a0Back in 2006 when the we concocted the idea behind LFGDating.com, we had a very clear purpose for the site: to bring down gamer stereotypes, and provide the gaming world with an authentic, stereotype-free dating service that was authentic, secure, and 100% real. \u00a0Fast forward to today, February 20th, 2013, and we&#8217;ve hit every single one of those wickets except one: the stereotype-free one. \u00a0Although our service checks user stereotypes at the virtual door by only catering to gamers, those stereotypes are sadly still out there. \u00a0That&#8217;s why it is really refreshing to come across a site that&#8217;s sole purpose is to tear down gamer stereotypes and stand as the advocates for gamers everywhere. \u00a0The site is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holdtheline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HoldTheLine.com<\/a>&#8220;, and although I am fairly late to the HTL party, it appears that they are garnering quite the following.<\/p>\n<p>We will be sure to keep tabs on HTL&#8217;s progress on the advocacy front; be sure to swing over and check them out as well to help us all with the good fight. \u00a0In the meantime, if you haven&#8217;t registered for your free profile at LFG, what are you waiting for? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\/register.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to signup and view your matches for free today!<\/a> \u00a0Registration is quick, and the service is real. \u00a0LFGDating is the <em>only <\/em>authentic, 100% homemade gamer dating site on the Internet, and we back up our custom-made service with Fort Knox-like SSL, 3-layer, 256-bit encryption that protects your personal data, and keeps the spam, hackers, and creeps out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfgdating.com\" target=\"_blank\">Check out LFGDating.com today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop quiz for our faithful readers: how many features have we ran with about trying to break down those ever-stubborn gamer stereotypes? \u00a0You are right if you said this many. \u00a0(If you&#8217;re too lazy to click the link, the answer is 6. \u00a07 if you count this one!) \u00a0Back in 2006 when the we concocted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,59,94,4,17,9],"tags":[194,404,57,146,193,195,6,52,58],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gamer-dating","category-gamer-girls","category-gamer-guys","category-lfg-dating","category-online-dating","category-video-games","tag-gamer-advocacy","tag-gamer-dating","tag-gamer-dating-site","tag-gamer-stereotypes","tag-holdtheline-com","tag-htl","tag-lfg","tag-professional-dating-sites","tag-safe-dating-sites"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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