safrolic

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by safrolic 14y ago
Facebook only was stupid to start with, but 100+ facebook friends requirement is something else, it means the service is only open to a specific kind of profile, the one who add people without thinking. Funny thing is in my online dating pr
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by safrolic 14y ago
Like a face picture, or stupid myspace/facebook picture. You'll never thank me for this because you probably won't have to face the worst of identity theft thanks to it.
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by safrolic 14y ago
I'd like to point out that facebook friends are not the same as friends. And friends do not necessarily know the sexual preferences of each other, it's not only about straight or gay, there's a whole range of sexual preferences out there an
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by safrolic 14y ago
Because he, as you are, is reasoning in terms of market which can only leads to failure to address the needs of the people using the service. Remove the economist goggles, do without the gender distinction and start dealing with human being
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by safrolic 14y ago
The situation you describe here has been fixed a couple times to my knowledge, then the monetization part kicked in and the service became broken for males who don't pay, then for pretty much everyone. The service got worst but the money ke
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by safrolic 14y ago
I'd firmly advice against being open about your personal information on the internet, especially on a dating site. I understand every big internet corporation is pushing the idea that privacy is dead and that you ought to put every thing ab
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by safrolic 14y ago
Your proposed solution seems really awful. Don't you know that such a power structure (see consumerium wiki about sysop power structure) will inevitably be abused. Also the recent Pycon incident should put some light on the usefulness of a
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by safrolic 14y ago
Exactly my thoughts reading the post, reeks and relents of heteronormativity and heterosexism. Using facebook for a dating site is plain wrong (what happens the day facebook opens a dating service and shuts your website access to facebook d
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by safrolic 14y ago
I remember times when online dating was not broken. Times where it was not organized by a third party trying to make a profit out of it. It happened on IRC which was quite different: it happened in real time, it was text based (no pictures
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by safrolic 14y ago
How would you disallow them to use your name or identifying pictures ? Funny thing is IINM this is probably illegal in several countries around the world, both setting up an online profile for someone else, without his/her knowledge being a
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by safrolic 14y ago
Myers Briggs: http://www.skepdic.com/myersb