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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by bena on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:26AM (#27474628)
And I will make X profiles from X emails, filling out the questionnaire in several ways to maximize the number of hits I get. The profile will be some good ol PT Barnum style pablum that appeals to just about all of us. I will also add pictures that are either extremely flattering of me, or of someone else. It doesn't really matter.

Then I just agree to every date that gets sent to my email. Ideally this could be automated so that I could run it on a raspberry pi.

But please, go on.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:28AM (#27474654)
Then you... what? Don't show up to dates? Do show up but get no contact information anyway because you aren't who you said you were? That's a lot of effort to put in for essentially nothing.
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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by bena on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:40AM (#27474805)
I could still go on the dates. I'm pointing out that you've solved no problems and instead opened the door to several other ones.

You've just made a bad/even more exploitable OkCupid/Tinder/PlentyOfFish clone.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:44AM (#27474833)
You could, but I don't really see the incentive in it. At least, I don't really see how it is any easier than doing basically the same thing on any other dating platform, except those platforms put you in contact with the person before you actually have to meet them.
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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by bena on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:43PM (#27475566)
The more dates I go on, the more likely I am to find a compatible partner. That's an incentive.
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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:52PM (#27476431)
...by completely avoiding all basic compatibility factors (wanting kids, sexual orientation, religiosity, etc) and misrepresenting yourself?
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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by bena on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:55AM (#27484127)
Have you seen the world? That's what people already do. Not to mention the first person we ever lie to is ourselves.

You're treating people being dishonest as some sort of revelation.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by r00fus on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:49AM (#27474890)
If we're not aiming for mass market, this service could use mobile device WebAuth as it's only authentication vehicle limiting it to one per device.

How do you spam/exploit that?

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by bena on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:53AM (#27484121)
Now we're just in the standard web arms race. And that's the kind of work he's already said he doesn't want.
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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by sweetheart on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:31PM (#27478093)
This is an excellent way to have a LOT of just bad, bad dates. Good luck! I hope you change, for your sake, and for the sake of the people you'll drag through dates.
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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by ativzzz on Friday June 11, 2021 @10:32PM (#27480909)
Dating is a numbers game. The more dates you go on, the higher odds you have of finding someone compatible.

Sure you could be more picky and spend the same effort to go on less dates and maybe end up in the same boat at the end, you'll just get laid less often. And honestly, I learned so much about myself, about women, and about people in general by going on a bunch of average or below average dates.

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Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living a... by lliamander on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:23PM (#27478676)
I think a lot of companies hiring programmers take an analogous approach, and tend to get a lot of mediocre candidates as a result.
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