Re:Why Online Dating (Still) Sucks, and a Simple Attempt at ...
by potatolicious on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @02:27PM
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On OKC star ratings are not exposed to users - you get to rate someone, and they get to rate you, and those are (to some extent) visible, but there's no such thing as "average user rating" or anything remotely close to it.
> " My understanding that any woman who gets an extreme number of messages will have a red dot"
Except... every guy has a green dot and nearly every girl as a red dot. This is not a salient indicator of anything - for all you know she's just very particular, but doesn't get a lot of messages (I've certainly seen profiles like this). Or, she might be getting literally hundreds of messages a day. Or hell, maybe she's getting spammed with one-liners but never gets a real message. In anycase, whatever the reason, when 90% of your population has a red dot, it ceases to become a filter for anything.
The "replies selectively" messaging on the site is borderline useless, and certainly doesn't accomplish the competition signaling that would actually work to drive some traffic from one group to another.
> " My understanding that any woman who gets an extreme number of messages will have a red dot"
Except... every guy has a green dot and nearly every girl as a red dot. This is not a salient indicator of anything - for all you know she's just very particular, but doesn't get a lot of messages (I've certainly seen profiles like this). Or, she might be getting literally hundreds of messages a day. Or hell, maybe she's getting spammed with one-liners but never gets a real message. In anycase, whatever the reason, when 90% of your population has a red dot, it ceases to become a filter for anything.
The "replies selectively" messaging on the site is borderline useless, and certainly doesn't accomplish the competition signaling that would actually work to drive some traffic from one group to another.