Staff Robot is a moron

[drwex]

I mostly never look at my OKC profile these days. I set it up years ago when I was teaching human-computer interaction. Each year I do a semester-long class project for students to analyze an existing Web site and one year I picked OKC because it was the only dating site that was free to sign up.

I played along with the students, filled out a lot of stuff, answered questions, etc. I get their "quiver match" emails a couple times a week and delete them unopened. Today I looked at one as a lark (because I'm bored and annoyed at work) and the first sentence of the first profile is:

I believe in the power of positive vibration.

Yeah, if that's your idea of the best match for me, Staff Robot, you are a moron. Now, if it was talking about the power of Good Vibrations, I'd be right there.

Comments

[macthud]

Quiver matches are often ridiculous.

They're based on very strange criteria, often enough being one-off "if you both have this word in your profile" kinds of things.

Best matches are shown by the percentage ratings.

Some of which you might have learned if you read the OKC site docs, now or when the project was running.

[drwex]

yeah I know about the percentages. I'm just surprised that quiver matches don't use those.

[macthud]

https://www.okcupid.com/help/quiver