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I outsourced my dating life at one point. I would hire people to go through a bunch of online dating sites, filter through the results, attempt to initiate con

by ckdarby 14y ago

I outsourced my dating life at one point. I would hire people to go through a bunch of online dating sites, filter through the results, attempt to initiate conversation and upon a reply I would take over. This has since been changed to a parsing bot I wrote that utilizes the sites search feature & a bunch of full text searching for keywords.

benjaminwootton 14y ago
And who says Romance is dead!
- simonsarris 14y ago
  In the "romantic era" (pick one really) people were paid to write very long and detailed and more-or-less made up love letters, either because the buyer could not write or because they did not have such a way with words. I would gander that romantic letters are probably the most ghost-written of any category of letter, for all periods in all of time.
  - Mz 14y ago
    That seems a little sad to me. I tend to value genuineness. I married a socially awkward introvert who wrote me incredibly bad poetry during our courtship. I found it endearing that such an intelligent well-read person (who scored higher than me on the verbal portion of the SAT) was willing to regularly look like an idiot to try to sincerely express his feelings for me.
stfu 14y ago
I like that idea. Can you give us an idea about the results so far? Would love to see the metrics, i.e. from shifting from a personalized approach to a bot based mechanism. But the main problem I see is that you might get flooded by responses from relatively unattractive candidates as the system seems to have no picture-attractiveness evaluation before initiating the contact.
matznerd 14y ago
How did that work out? I read about this wallstreet guy who kept a meticulous spreadsheet of all the women he met on dates, and she got him to send it to her, then she leaked it all over the net... http://deadspin.com/5902760/finance-guy-keeps-incredibly-detailed-incredibly-creepy-spreadsheet-of-his-matchcom-prospects http://deadspin.com/5902760/finance-guy-keeps-incredibly-det...

by ckdarby 14y ago

benjaminwootton 14y ago

And who says Romance is dead!

simonsarris 14y ago
In the "romantic era" (pick one really) people were paid to write very long and detailed and more-or-less made up love letters, either because the buyer could not write or because they did not have such a way with words. I would gander that romantic letters are probably the most ghost-written of any category of letter, for all periods in all of time.
- Mz 14y ago
  That seems a little sad to me. I tend to value genuineness. I married a socially awkward introvert who wrote me incredibly bad poetry during our courtship. I found it endearing that such an intelligent well-read person (who scored higher than me on the verbal portion of the SAT) was willing to regularly look like an idiot to try to sincerely express his feelings for me.

stfu 14y ago

I like that idea. Can you give us an idea about the results so far? Would love to see the metrics, i.e. from shifting from a personalized approach to a bot based mechanism. But the main problem I see is that you might get flooded by responses from relatively unattractive candidates as the system seems to have no picture-attractiveness evaluation before initiating the contact.

matznerd 14y ago

How did that work out? I read about this wallstreet guy who kept a meticulous spreadsheet of all the women he met on dates, and she got him to send it to her, then she leaked it all over the net... http://deadspin.com/5902760/finance-guy-keeps-incredibly-detailed-incredibly-creepy-spreadsheet-of-his-matchcom-prospects http://deadspin.com/5902760/finance-guy-keeps-incredibly-det...