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My immediate thought is applying this to okcupid messages. Okcupid can figure out what kind of messages is likely to generate responses for each person, and can
by khc 11y ago
My immediate thought is applying this to okcupid messages. Okcupid can figure out what kind of messages is likely to generate responses for each person, and can probably charge the sender for the ideal writing style recommendation.
- majormajor 11y agoI think that's against their long-term interest. For traffic to keep coming, they need either new users from good word-of-mouth from people who had good experiences, or repeat usage from people who were happy enough with their past experience even if the relationship didn't last forever. Explicitly helping people be manipulative in getting to an in-person meeting between probably-not-actually-natural-matches seems counterproductive.
- caseysoftware 11y agoI worked for a dating website years ago and you might be amazed about their long-term interests.. If you join a dating site and fail, they lose one customer. If you join a dating site and are successful, they lose two. The goal became determining good but not great matches and notify the user regularly, especially if they hadn't logged in for a while. It was basically a game of giving false hope to get them to keep their accounts active and the dollars flowing. I bailed a couple weeks after I realized this.