I think dating sites are particularly tricky because you rely much more on active users than simply user generated content. Think of twitter, although active u

I think dating sites are particularly tricky because you rely much more on active users than simply user generated content. Think of twitter, although active users are very much important, once a tweet is there it's there and it's available for everyone so the website gets a little more valuable with every tweet that is posted. But a dating site? Someone that makes a profile adds nothing if they abandon it after a couple days! So although I agree with you that getting users is indeed one of the biggest challenges; I think your experience was particularly bad :)