Open Thread February 25 - March 3

Scott Garrabrant

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a dating site may be a fantastic thing to try

So how would it be different from OK Cupid, for example?

As an aside, wasn't the original motivation for Facebook Zuckerberg's desire to meet girls..? :-D

Here is one improvement to OKcupid, which we might even be able to implement as a third party:

OKcupid has bad match algorithms, but it can still be useful as searchable classified adds. However, when you find a legitimate match, you need to have a way to signal to the other person that you believe the match could work.

Most messages on OKcupid are from men to women, so women already have a way to do this: send a message, however men do not.

Men spam messages, by glancing over profiles, and sending cookie cutter messages that mention something in the profil... (read more)

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OK Cupid has a horrible match percent algorithm. Basically someone who has a check list of things that their match cannot be will answer lots of questions as "this matters a lot to me" and "any of these options are acceptable except for this one extreme one that nobody will click anyway." The stupid algorithm will inflate this person's match percent with everyone. So, if you look at people with high compatibility with you, that says more about their question answering style, than how much you have in common. This is why the algorithm is horrible in theory. In practice my one example is that I am getting married in a month to someone I met on OKcupid with 99% compatibility.

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Open Thread February 25 - March 3

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Open Thread February 25 - March 3

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