OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
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OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
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Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#2Isn't this an obvious marketing angle designed to get people to come to the site more often? Somehow I doubt they are really giving people less matches based on this. Anyway, assuming an even distribution of matches, matching "ugly" top "ugly" and "attractive" to "attractive" will result in an even match distribution.
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#3At first I was like, "wow, that's offensive."
But then I was like, "damn, how come I didn't get that email too?"
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#4I'm not quite sure what the problem is. OkCupid's goal is to help its users find dates. People rarely date someone who's very significantly more or less attractive than they are. Directing people to users with whom they're much likelier to find success actually seems quite sensible, not "less than OK".
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#5So in other words, it mimics real life?
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#6At first I was like, "wow, that's offensive." But then I was like, "damn, how come I didn't get that email too?"
Why is it offensive? Long-term relationships report the highest happiness levels when both partners are of roughly equal attractiveness.
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#7Isn't this an obvious marketing angle designed to get people to come to the site more often? Somehow I doubt they are really giving people less matches based on this. Anyway, assuming an even distribution of matches, matching "ugly" top "ugly" and "attractive" to "attractive" will result in an even match distribution.
I would assume that men are disproportionately more unattractive than women meaning e.g. the 20% of "hot" men get their pick of 80% of women who are "hot". Just like in real life. goes reads mystery method
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#8At first I was like, "wow, that's offensive." But then I was like, "damn, how come I didn't get that email too?"
I was pretty amazed to receive the message :) .
(I guess I chose an extremely favourable profile picture! Definitely didn't expect it)
I can confirm it contains the text described. I was also surprised, as I didn't know OkCupid did any kind of segregation.
Amusingly, it came just at the time I went "off the market" :P
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#9My theory:
I would bet that the system a sliding scale, not a hot or not situation. More than likely users are being shown matches that the system deems to have similar "attractiveness" levels, based on that click-through metric mentioned in the email. The email we see in this article would then just be a notification letting the user know that he or she has cross into the top 50% of click throughs. As their click through has been increasing slowly over the length of their membership they would have been seeing more and more other "attractive" people as their rank increased.
Re: OkCupid has less-than-OK policies. Especially if you're "ugly."
#10I'm not quite sure what the problem is. OkCupid's goal is to help its users find dates. People rarely date someone who's very significantly more or less attractive than they are. Directing people to users with whom they're much likelier to find success actually seems quite sensible, not "less than OK".
I know what the problem is... After seeing some of the pictures of the people who got that letter, I'm pretty convinced they gave it to the bottom half.