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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by MadWombat on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:43PM (#21633136)
I thought about similar ideas, but I think it solves a problem (women want to get fewer messages) while ignoring the main goal (women want the messages to be from the guys they would like to meet). Once messages start costing a significant amount of money, only the truly desperate and/or predatory will be sending the messages.
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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by perl4ever on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:03PM (#21634305)
A simple method of filtering that occurred to me a long time ago -

Make the service completely free, but require a credit rating above a certain threshold. Possibly apply that to men but not women.

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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by MadWombat on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:10AM (#21703379)
You assume that financially responsibility is the primary or strictly required characteristic women are looking for. I am a man, so I am not going to offer an opinion, but it seems like a very bold assumption.
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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by likeclockwork on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:26AM (#21636035)
If you insist on treating every man who wants to use your service like a john I'm not sure you're going to like the men you get.
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Re:Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy... by perl4ever on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @07:21PM (#21644137)
It's obviously something that would upset people, but the point is that it's very significantly different than making men pay (like a john) and much more aligned with what people really want.

You don't need or want a filter to determine who is desirable; you just want to eliminate everyone who is completely unacceptable and provide a fairly large number of options that are all decent.

It might also be necessary to provide some sort of clever cover, so it didn't seem like the business was doing what it was doing. From a marketing perspective, I don't think it would sell, but from a results perspective, I think it would.

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