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Hell, I would like if OKCupid let me know my percentile. If I thought I had a hot shit profile that actually rather sucks (by real user analytics feedback), it would benefit me to know.

[edit] People are taking this far too personally. You didn't get rejected as unattractive, your profile got rejected as unattractive. There are more ways than one to rectify this. Remember, these people don't know you, they can only view a tiny slice of you via your profile - one that you are in 100% control of. Perhaps your failure is not that you're irredeemably ugly, but rather that your profile inspires no attraction. Conversely, if you "won" the profile attractiveness game, it may not mean you're nearly as attractive in real life as your profile suggests.

This reminds of the PUA mantra as it has been related to me: "she didn't reject you, she rejected your approach"



> If I thought I had a hot shit profile that actually rather sucks (by real user analytics feedback), it would benefit me to know.

The "YourBestFace" feature would help you with that.

Most interesting thing I found out? Pictures with my grandma: awesome. Pictures with my grandfather: horrible.


Wow, I hadn't heard of that feature!

It makes me wonder why these people are running something as small-time as a dating website. I haven't seen so much useful creativity and cool new ideas and openness since Google got bigger.


Why is dating "small-time"? What other category of website can actually charge subscription fees and still attract a large mainstream user base?


Not that it's small money, or not important. They are just so refreshing, and from what I've seen of them, I wish we had teams like that in places such as our government.

I'm not insulting their business. It is pretty perfect for collecting some of the data they have found.


OK Cupid is free btw


But you can pay a subscription and get no ads, better filters, and extra blah blah blah.


Just post your pictures to Hot or Not to find where you are in the scheme of things.




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