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If the boyfriend/girlfriend ratio is 60/40, they could almost just connect these people together.
by ilkkao 11y ago
If the boyfriend/girlfriend ratio is 60/40, they could almost just connect these people together.
- clearly 11y agoDating isnt simply a matching problem... maybe these people don't want to connect with a real person?
- tiglionabbit 11y agoWell then they could be fake couples together
- lucaspiller 11y agoMaybe this is what actually happens, but they don't tell anyone ;)
- Scarblac 11y agoThat's romantic comedy stuff. Both sides believe they've hired a bot but have been secretly matched and are just talking to each other, to save costs. They are really happy with the "relationship" they have with the "bot". When they find out, they are outraged and sue the company...
- mbrock 11y agoPlot twist at the end: they are actually both replicants.
- justinjlynn 11y agoBot talks to Bot talking to bot thinking bot is not bot but is actually bot. Bot is also talking to bot thinking it is not bot but is actually bot. Both bots find out Bot is bot but not bot. Both Bots bot. The net Bot is bot net. Bot-ception. Edit: Bbbbwwwwoooooottttt. Oh, my brain.
- VLM 11y agoTell Alma, "The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping." Hard to believe that movie is three and a half decades old. Speaking of replicants getting interviewed by HR, another possible profitable relationship simulator, "The HR interview simulator" asking both classics such as "Can you describe how you solved a work or school problem?" and "What bugs you about coworkers or bosses?" and for an additional $10/month it adds "Mr Neckbeard McNed" to the conversation, who asks you to explain various algos randomly drawn from the Book of Knuth. "So I see you're applying to be a web page designer ... css, check, jquery experience, check, no Fields Medal or Nobel, thats something we kinda require here for writing our CRUD app, preferably both, but maybe we can make an exception just for you ... I was wondering if you could psuedocode the Hopcroft-Karp bipartite algorithm on the whiteboard for me. No pressure, I'll give you a minute or two. Or you can write it in Haskell, 6502 assembly, or APL, whichever you'd prefer."
- geon 11y agoThere was a Swedish summer hit song with basically this premisse a few years ago. "Anna, the bot".
- dnate 11y agoBoten Anna! such a classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQUsp-jxDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQUsp-jxDQ
- icoder 11y agoHaha, was that about this? 'Boten' sounds like 'boat' (and the Dutch equivalent, 'boot'), and so we had a cover in our language about someone who had a 'really beautiful boat' called Anna.
- geon 11y agoWith his accent, it is the same in Swedish. Combined with the song playing way too much in commercial radio, it created some resentment. Someone on a festival had a sign saying "You have a boat up your ass".
- personlurking 11y agoReminds me - still waiting for a season 3 of Äkta människor
- JonnieCache 11y agoIsn't that song about their IRC bot and how they love her because she kicks all the lamers from their channel and protects it from takeovers? Here's a video with english subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iU0GGVco8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iU0GGVco8 EDIT: oh yeah at the end <SPOILER ALERT> it does turn out that she's really a human girl. </SPOILER ALERT>
- annnnd 11y agoHey! At least write "spoiler alert"!
- restalis 11y ago"When they find out, they are outraged and sue the company..." So knowing this possibility, write a disclaimer first! A generic one of course, that won't rise awareness in (the unlikely) case your clients actually bother to read something before signing up!
- jamiethompson 11y agoHave you considered that this might actually be what they're doing? ;)
- lmm 11y agoI used to work in the phone industry. If you're allowing users to message each other you need human moderators, otherwise you'll get death threats and bizarre fantasies carefully worded to get around any automated filter. If you're going to pay a human to read every message you might as well pay them to write them, it takes a similar amount of time and usually means better service.
- sargun 11y agoWait, you need human moderators between the customer and the bot? Why?
- traek 11y agoNo, he is saying you need human moderators if you're connecting two users and letting them speak to each other.
- Gravityloss 11y agoWell, there's a limit what even a bot should take...
- guard-of-terra 11y ago"Moderated dating" is an interesting idea by itself. Where both sides have to conform to a very strict etiquette (platform rules), until they both decide to move their relationship to next level anyway. I can see how it can appeal to some people.
- noir_lord 11y agoThat is what a chaperone was in thethe past, many cultures still have that set of rules thing until a certain point.
- _0ffh 11y agoI think a chaperone is primarily a safeguard against indiscretions. Their raison d'etre is to make sure nobody damages the goods before you have decided on a suitable match for your daughter. Which I find rather archaic.
- donquichotte 11y agoAnd charge each of them 5$/week for the privilege of entertaining each other.
- geon 11y agoSo it's just a dating site, with the understanding that both parties just want a fake relationship? Cool. The larger players should add that as a profile setting/filter.
- username223 11y agoLike Ashley Madison, I'd bet the ratio is closer to 99/1.
- antihero 11y agoLikely the standards people in both groups have are higher than what they can obtain for whatever reason.
- baddox 11y agoUnless most of the clients want a fake significant other that would normally be "out of their league" for some definition of that term.