There's a hidden factor at play in this service, which is the bond that we create with one-another when we go through hardships.
For instance, if you endure something that is hard or difficult or exhausting, you develop a closer bond with someone. If the puzzle solving could be social puzzle solving, they may create attraction artificially.
I question whether enough women will bother going through puzzles in order to find a match. History might prove me wrong, but I feel this will turn the site into even more of a sausage fest than your average OKCupid. Women don't need to look that hard to find a nerd on a dating site.
Though clunky and perhaps not entirely well thought-out, it does get at the question of how to meet the literally like-minded. While I doubt that I'd poke around with Mensa-esque puzzles to prove my intellectual worthiness, I do think there needs to be some way to get male and female nerds in the same room with the potential for more than just a keynote speaker.
Though clunky and perhaps not entirely well thought-out, it does get at the question of how to meet the literally like-minded.
I will now reveal my super secret method to meet literally like-minded people:
1. Find a group engaging in something you like, perhaps a fantasy book club, or a frisbee team, or a wicker furniture building class, anything you have a real interested in.
I love your super secret method!! In the circles I travel in, there's quite a bit of shoe-gazing... so I am going to try and find that wicker furniture building class - it sounds delightful.
The problem with a lot of dating sites is the spam factor: people with fake profiles, scammers, etc. Why can't dating sites use a SMS-based verification system to filter out the riff-raff?
Spammers increase conversions and activity on the site. I worked for a dating site and they condoned spammers that weren't out of control. Hell, they tacitly approved of hookers working the site as long as they weren't blatant.
If you're looking for a date, take the effort of going out and meeting someone. Online dating is a total waste of time for most people, unless you're looking for someone who sits at their computer all day.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 52.3 ms ] threadFor instance, if you endure something that is hard or difficult or exhausting, you develop a closer bond with someone. If the puzzle solving could be social puzzle solving, they may create attraction artificially.
I will now reveal my super secret method to meet literally like-minded people:
1. Find a group engaging in something you like, perhaps a fantasy book club, or a frisbee team, or a wicker furniture building class, anything you have a real interested in.
2. Join that group.
3. There's no step 3.
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That, and most people don't want to share their numbers with some site. For all they know, you are just collecting the numbers and reselling them.
If you're looking for a date, take the effort of going out and meeting someone. Online dating is a total waste of time for most people, unless you're looking for someone who sits at their computer all day.