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OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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In case anyone didn't catch it... the 4 photos of "random" dudes that follow the line:

> "here are just a few of the many, many guys we here in the office think are totally decent-looking, but that women have rated, in their occult way, as significantly less attractive than so-called “medium”"

are the 4 cofounders of OkCupid... ;)

Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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post #8
post #4

>Incelgate can someone explain what this is?

A bunch of truly awful people nobody wants to be around blaming women for their lives instead of taking some personal responsibility.

And a witchhunt of those people is somehow going to help?! When has that ever helped. People like that are to some extent mentally ill and need professional help instead.

Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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post #9
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>Incelgate can someone explain what this is?

Seemly after the canadian guy killed people with a van, a witchunt for Involuntary Celibates started... For example: https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496

I wouldn't use "witch hunt" for a community that toxic, though wow using -gate is obnoxious.

Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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In case anyone didn't catch it... the 4 photos of "random" dudes that follow the line: > "here are just a few of the many, many guys we here in the office think are totally decent-looking, but that women have rated, in their occult way, as significantly less attractive than so-called “medium”" are the 4 cofounders of OkCupid... ;)

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Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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I don't think this has anything to do with the incel movement. It was a risky post to begin with. This tweet is making a lot of assumptions. Flagging as no good discussion can come from this post on HN.

Yeah, it doesn't really offer any good advice, just offers up questionable conclusions. Personally, I think it's an indictment of online dating in general as encouraging our shallowest selves to go front and center, but we seem to not want to give it up yet.

I don't think a service tailored at dating is ever going to be decent at what it's ostensibly doing. Instead what's going to work is someone doing a local community app right.

Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bunch of truly awful people nobody wants to be around blaming women for their lives instead of taking some personal responsibility.

And a witchhunt of those people is somehow going to help?! When has that ever helped. People like that are to some extent mentally ill and need professional help instead.

There are always going to be more people that need professional assistance than there are resources to give them said assistance. A normative solution is better than no solution.

Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

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The stat that they don't show are how many simultaneous sexual partners people have on the site. They could have made it an interactive data exploration site to compare this to attractiveness!

Just get off of these awful sites and programs. They profit off the worst traits of humanity and it seems their blog as well. There is nothing scientific or useful that can come from their data or supposed insights. The first step in the right direction was to delete the post.

Re: OkCupid Deletes Post “Your Looks and Your Inbox”

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And a witchhunt of those people is somehow going to help?! When has that ever helped. People like that are to some extent mentally ill and need professional help instead.

There are always going to be more people that need professional assistance than there are resources to give them said assistance. A normative solution is better than no solution.

> A normative solution is better than no solution.

Please explain how. I think it's literally the worst idea to go poking people already on the edge with their hate and misery.

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