Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
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Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#2There'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.
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#3... then argue about which of you is smarter.
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#4Interesting idea, but oh dear does the dating site need some serious help from a web designer.
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#5I 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.
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#6... then argue about which of you is smarter.
Yeah, came over here to say, "Looks like an excellent place to meet pompous Mensa clowns, if you're into that sort of thing."
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#7Though 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.
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#8Sometimes Scott Adams says it better than words alone can:
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#9Just write well. You'll stand out on any dating site.
Re: Brainiac Dating: Solve puzzles and meet your fellow nerds online
#10The 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?