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Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by tunesmith on Monday March 31, 2014 @07:01PM (#7504912)
That's not really irony. It's generally okay to have a self-referential asterisk in rules like; Tolerance, except for intolerance. Free will, except where it impedes that of another. Peace & good will, except where you're about to punch me in the face. Etc. When people argue inconsistency in those cases, it's usually sophistry.

That's not to defend okcupid's tactics in this case. I'm just saying that it's not really an example of hypocrisy.

Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by vacri on Monday March 31, 2014 @07:16PM (#7505008)
It's definitely an example of hypocrisy. To put it in prison terms, OKC is pursuing punishment rather than rehabilitation. If you're really about bringing people together and love, then you should be promoting trying to change peoples' minds to make them more inclusive, not blocking them altogether. Being hateful back at them simply reinforces their beliefs, and gives them a martyrdom story to pass on to like-minded people: "they say they're for love, but declared me an enemy and wished me failure". Making enemies of demographic groups divides people, pretty much by definition.
Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by Borogove on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:30PM (#7505595)
Our most brilliant scientists have recently discovered that the word "love" has multiple overlapping definitions. Strange but true.
Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by vacri on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:52PM (#7505671)
What about "we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together"? How do you hand-wave away that comment of OKC's in a manner that still allows them to be divisive?
Re:OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox by Borogove on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:42PM (#7512575)
You got me. OkCupid's hypocrisy in this matter is clearly the most divisive issue in our society today. You should devote your website's front page to calling them out on it.