BeautifulPeople.com, a dating and networking community which claims to be exclusively for good-looking people,  apparently has programming and security that was done by beautiful people rather than smart ones.  

30,000 ugly people recently invaded the site, bypassing the  "strict rating stage" where currently designated beautiful members decide the fate of new applicants.  The rating module was brought down last month, allowing anyone - regardless of looks(gasp!) - to be accepted. 

 Greg Hodge, managing director of BeautifulPeople.com, said, "We got suspicious when tens of thousands of new members were accepted over a six-week period, many of whom were no oil painting."

Oil painters will likely protest his comparing them to a site that sounds kind of creepy while people who speak English will wonder what that analogy even means.

"We responded immediately, repairing the damage from the 'Shrek Virus' and putting every new member back into the rating module for a legitimate and democratic vote. The result is that we have lost over 30,000 recent members," he said.  "We have sincere regret for the unfortunate people who were wrongly admitted to the site and who believed, albeit for a short while, that they were beautiful. It must be a bitter pill to swallow, but better to have had a slice of heaven then never to have tasted it at all." 

The origin of the 'Shrek Virus' is still being investigated internally. It was initially thought to be a BeautifulPeople.com reject (naturally, to beautiful idiots, though unlikely to people who know what they are talking about) but further investigations pointed to a former employee (much more likely) who placed the virus before becoming un-beautiful in May.   Member privacy and security were never breached, though who expected it would be?    The person who left obviously thought the company was idiotic so he wanted to stick it to the site by letting anyone in, not damage the people gullible enough to believe you can vote on beauty. 

In response, the company has created a  team of 'beauty police' from around the world who have been recruited to guard against any further infiltrators that get voted off Beautiful Island.   They even set up a hotline at 1-800-791-0662 (ugly people, call!   They likely pay for unlimited voice service so it won't cost them anything but it will make you feel better) to help recently rejected applicants deal with the hard news and can give tips for those wishing to re-apply. 

 Hodge said, "We would like to reassure our community that the rating module has been restored to perfect working order. Every vote continues to count as we remain true to our founding principles; keeping the trolls out and the beautiful people in. On a positive note, we did get several thousand worthy applicants during the same period - notably from the USA, Denmark and Australia." 

 BeautifulPeople.com claims 700,000 members worldwide.   The 30,000 ugly people recently cast out of BeautifulPeople.com were from the following countries: 

USA: 11,924 UK: 3,156 Brazil: 2,911 France: 2,340 Canada: 1,220 Germany: 1,205 Australia: 1,093 Japan: 998 Russia: 840 Denmark: 470

 Since they seem to like vaguely gross business concepts, perhaps next they could set up a site where people without problems make fun of handicapped people.   Or rich people make fun of poor people.    They don't even have to pay Science 2.0 for the idea; we just like knowing we made the world a better place for elitists who accomplished nothing in their lives except being lucky.