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This would be a lot more interesting if the user data were verified in some way, such that you could filter for X universities, or income level, or even SAT sco

This would be a lot more interesting if the user data were verified in some way, such that you could filter for X universities, or income level, or even SAT score type stuff. People are a lot more open to random encounters when the pool is prefiltered in some way, imo.

turc1656 8y ago
That's what regular human conversation is for.
Judgmentality 8y ago
You want to filter based on SAT scores?
- darkr 8y ago
  Personally I’d like to be able to filter based upon people who filter based upon SAT scores
  - droithomme 8y ago
    "Don't show me people who filter" is a great filter.
- vonseel 8y ago
  Meh who thinks about such things that has been in the workforce for more than a couple of years... nobody!
- gnicholas 8y ago
  At least back when I was online dating, some platforms let you filter by education level, which is probably correlated with SAT score. I will admit that I chuckled when I read the suggestion of SAT filtering, but now that I think about it that's mostly because I'm in my mid-30s now so SATs would not be an up-to-date indicator for me. But if I were 17, education level would be a useless filter, and I might use SAT instead.
PenguinCoder 8y ago
I hat isn't the definition of random that I am familiar with.
ajkjk 8y ago
I'd prefilter out people who prefilter any of things you just listed.
btilly 8y ago
I find the responses to this suggestion very amusing. General rule. Women like being able to preemptively filter men out of their dating pool based on a variety of fairly arbitrary criteria. Men who fear being so eliminated want to not be filtered out by those criteria. Given that this site has mostly men, most of the opinions expressed will be against any such filtering. Put another way, suppose that a woman wants to find single men, over 6' tall, under 35, with a university degree, and a job making more than 100k. Men who fail to meet any of those criteria do not wish to be filtered out.
- Judgmentality 8y ago
  I'm male, over 6' tall, under 35, with a university degree, and make over $100k. I still think filtering on these criteria is a bad idea if you want to find someone that makes you happy. Obviously people have their preferences and can filter as they please, but I don't think it's objectionable to call people out for being shallow and myopic.
- rconti 8y ago
  Funny, I specifically avoided putting ANYTHING for salary when I was online dating and making more-than-average. I don't have a control group, so I can't say if I would have "done better" if I had, but I sure didn't have any disappointing experiences with someone looking for a sugar daddy, and I ended up happily married, so there ya go.
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- droithomme 8y ago
  > suppose that a woman wants to find single men, over 6' tall, under 35, with a university degree, and a job making more than 100k What woman doesn't want that list?
bhl 8y ago
People already do this type of filtering implicitly. In sociology, it's called "social sorting" [1]. In fact, all the characteristics you're looking for can be satisfied by going to a top-tier university or a nearby city: most college graduates have higher income levels and probably higher SAT scores, and most move to metropolitan areas after graduation. In this case, we call a "sorting mechanism". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sorting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sorting Note: I'm not encouraging this behavior – just pointing out that it exists without technology. A dating app like this would just cause more sorting.
el_cujo 8y ago
I don't think there's any point to that since people could lie about that info if its up to them to put it up themselves. Even worse if it requires some sort of proof, I don't see people using an app that requires them to submit bank forms or a transcript. Then again, there may seriously be a market for an app to match up rich people with attractive trophy spouses, but I don't think that's what this app is going for.

turc1656 8y ago

That's what regular human conversation is for.

Judgmentality 8y ago

You want to filter based on SAT scores?

darkr 8y ago
Personally I’d like to be able to filter based upon people who filter based upon SAT scores
- droithomme 8y ago
  "Don't show me people who filter" is a great filter.
vonseel 8y ago
Meh who thinks about such things that has been in the workforce for more than a couple of years... nobody!
gnicholas 8y ago
At least back when I was online dating, some platforms let you filter by education level, which is probably correlated with SAT score. I will admit that I chuckled when I read the suggestion of SAT filtering, but now that I think about it that's mostly because I'm in my mid-30s now so SATs would not be an up-to-date indicator for me. But if I were 17, education level would be a useless filter, and I might use SAT instead.

PenguinCoder 8y ago

I hat isn't the definition of random that I am familiar with.

ajkjk 8y ago

I'd prefilter out people who prefilter any of things you just listed.

btilly 8y ago

I find the responses to this suggestion very amusing. General rule. Women like being able to preemptively filter men out of their dating pool based on a variety of fairly arbitrary criteria. Men who fear being so eliminated want to not be filtered out by those criteria. Given that this site has mostly men, most of the opinions expressed will be against any such filtering. Put another way, suppose that a woman wants to find single men, over 6' tall, under 35, with a university degree, and a job making more than 100k. Men who fail to meet any of those criteria do not wish to be filtered out.

Judgmentality 8y ago
I'm male, over 6' tall, under 35, with a university degree, and make over $100k. I still think filtering on these criteria is a bad idea if you want to find someone that makes you happy. Obviously people have their preferences and can filter as they please, but I don't think it's objectionable to call people out for being shallow and myopic.
rconti 8y ago
Funny, I specifically avoided putting ANYTHING for salary when I was online dating and making more-than-average. I don't have a control group, so I can't say if I would have "done better" if I had, but I sure didn't have any disappointing experiences with someone looking for a sugar daddy, and I ended up happily married, so there ya go.
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droithomme 8y ago
> suppose that a woman wants to find single men, over 6' tall, under 35, with a university degree, and a job making more than 100k What woman doesn't want that list?

bhl 8y ago

People already do this type of filtering implicitly. In sociology, it's called "social sorting" [1]. In fact, all the characteristics you're looking for can be satisfied by going to a top-tier university or a nearby city: most college graduates have higher income levels and probably higher SAT scores, and most move to metropolitan areas after graduation. In this case, we call a "sorting mechanism". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sorting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sorting Note: I'm not encouraging this behavior – just pointing out that it exists without technology. A dating app like this would just cause more sorting.

el_cujo 8y ago

I don't think there's any point to that since people could lie about that info if its up to them to put it up themselves. Even worse if it requires some sort of proof, I don't see people using an app that requires them to submit bank forms or a transcript. Then again, there may seriously be a market for an app to match up rich people with attractive trophy spouses, but I don't think that's what this app is going for.