This is a great story, and suggests lots of terrific ideas for gaming the dating field. Where is the service that has collected and modeled a lot of profiles f

This is a great story, and suggests lots of terrific ideas for gaming the dating field. Where is the service that has collected and modeled a lot of profiles from a given service, and then rates your profile for success? Or rewrites your profile for you? There are certainly machine learning models on the dating service side working "against" you to tantalize you but keep you in the service for a longer period. I have a friend who likes Latin women, reasonably good looking, speaks flawless Spanish, and lived in Mexico and Spain for years. He discovered Colombia a while ago, joined the premier online dating site, and started collecting "favorites" all over the country. I wrote some scraping scripts to capture all his favorites. He wrote a two line generic message "Coming to Colombia <date>. Send me your cell and I'll call when I'm in town." I picked out the Bogota women, for example, and did a "bulk IM" to his list. He converted at about 20% from a cold IM into cell number in hand. Another way to hack the system is run your own Adsense ads. A few years ago I accidentally got more than a thousand one cent clicks in Colombia from a dating ad test. I was only testing how closely one can geo-target, and I forgot to turn off my one cent bids and $1/day budget.