That website was probably just datamining you and its other users. Sorry about that.
Care2?
It's a bizarre mix of blog articles and comments and a bunch of mini-forums on a whole slew of topics - I did meet some people there that I wouldn't mind meeting in RL. I still miss some of the people in the cat group and the atheist/agnostic group. But what I don't miss is the incessant trolling, flaming, and even death threats (which is why nobody can ever convince me that militant vegans are people who don't have multiple screws loose with regard to their ability to tell right from wrong).
I also don't miss the blatant dishonesty by the people who run that site. I never posted any petitions, but what I found out is that the petitions that are started by ordinary people don't actually go anywhere once they've reached the target number of signatures. The cow pies hit the air conditioning appliance when TPTB announced that they had 25 MILLION members, and so there would be a lottery - 25 members would each receive 100,000 butterfly points (the points people receive for posting, signing petitions, faving articles, etc.) which they could redeem any way they wanted among the different charities... for tree planting, providing shelter meals for dogs and cats (which is the one I always did when I was active there and before I realized what a scam the whole thing was), and others.
But quelle surprise... when the 25 members' names were posted, some of us became suspicious because we'd never heard of most of them (the fact was that after awhile a person did come to recognize most of the regular posters). A little digging revealed that most of those 25 members were either brand-new adspam accounts, accounts that had never been used, or people who had been inactive for years. So the company was able to do a PR blitz that they had given away all those butterfly points for people to redeem, but the fact was that most of those points would never be redeemed because the accounts that received them were either spam accounts or inactive accounts. Last I heard, they claimed something like 36 million members. It wouldn't surprise me if they're claiming 50 or more million members by now. But the real number of consistently active members there would probably be less than 10,000.
Anyway, I wrote a review, and have received numerous upvotes and views. If it saves even one person from getting taken in by that and spending hours a day trying to accumulate the 1000-1200 butterfly points it's possible to get in a day if you do the minimum number of posts and activities that would lead to that (not to mention the stress of being reamed out by some insane person just because you happen to mention that you approve of flu shots and like cheese sandwiches), it was worth the effort. And thank goodness I never used my real name there, like some people did. One of my acquaintances actually lost her job because the vegans found out where she worked and started harassing her bosses.
Oh, and their "help" group is by moderator approval only. It's not for just anybody - you have to be approved for membership, even if it's only for a question about how some technical thing works on the site. After awhile it became very apparent that many things there don't work, and they have no interest in fixing them.
Good riddance to a corrupt bunch.
I might still get a more expensive one later.
