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I've randomly thought about this and one thing i can say is that if you want to build a successful long-term dating site you HAVE to cater 90% towards the women
by ookblah 16y ago
I've randomly thought about this and one thing i can say is that if you want to build a successful long-term dating site you HAVE to cater 90% towards the women haahha. that means making it easy for them to filter, having a safe place where they don't feel hit on by creepers, or provide an arena where they know that the men are "quality", etc.
You will always have enough male signups. So for the men it's about balancing the ratios somewhat so that it's not just completely ridiculous. Dating sites know this and probably don't care at all because they're getting revenue from any warm body.
While i agree that it just takes 5 minutes in person to do a quick BS/weirdo filter, that's not feasible online, especially for women. Women are spammed much more and have a tough time filtering, let alone meeting many people.
The only way this will work is if the matching algorithm he's proposing is extremely accurate, otherwise all it'd take is like 3-4 weeks of failed group dinner meetings to write the site off.
- orangecat 16y agoif you want to build a successful long-term dating site you HAVE to cater 90% towards the women Of course. Seems like one obvious way would be to limit the number of emails that men can send per day/week/whatever, so women don't get spammed quite so badly.
- Joakal 16y agoAn obvious workaround: Multiple accounts can be created. It's that easy. Otherwise if you add hurdles, single account people would be put off from signing up.
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- ookblah 16y agoyou can use their facebook profile for some validation (although they can still get around that). one thing i thought would be cool was kind of like a closed invite/referral ecosystem. that way you can't get on unless someone you know vouches for you, and if you misbehave then the referrer also is punished.
- amalcon 16y agoHere's a possible system: - Free accounts exist. They have mostly full privileges. - A given user can only receive so many requests per period of time. A given user can only receive one request per user for a given period. Others are informed that they will be put on a waiting list. The site could play games with the waiting list, like purging inactive accounts or increasing the priority of requests similar to ones the user has already responded to. - Paid accounts exist. There is at least one incentive to pay: you may skip a waiting list every so often. The cost should be enough to reduce the incentive for account cloning and keep the spammers out, as it exists only for that purpose. Desirable demographics (really a euphemism for 'women') would pretty much not need to pay. On the other hand, the site is especially attractive to them because they are not bombarded with messages. Less-desirable demographics would still be able to use the site without paying, but they would be able to pay to not wait around as much.
- tomjen3 16y agoNot necessarily - match it up against a facebook account. If the account doesn't have a lot of activity or is very new you get to send fewer messages.
- analyst74 16y agoI am reminded a site that helps girls to find wealthy sugar daddies. They require your tax return slip before identifying as a real millionaire.
- mkramlich 16y agoI heard that Norway.com is a great dating site for this reason. The entire country has completely open public income tax records.