It's interesting that Match.com acquired OkCupid shortly after this post. OkCupid deleted this post, and there was some minor controversy about whether they wer

It's interesting that Match.com acquired OkCupid shortly after this post. OkCupid deleted this post, and there was some minor controversy about whether they were forced to delete it or what. https://web.archive.org/web/20110204185529/http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/okcupid-we-didnt-censor-our-matchcom-bashing-blog-post https://web.archive.org/web/20110204185529/http://www.observ... Of course, this was all before the great rise of mobile apps, subsequently the Tinder model would become the dominant one, where you pay for higher visibility, and you can debate the effectiveness but it's all pretty different from how things worked back then.