POF : How to improve dating sites?
Well, all I see is complaints about POF dates lol, so why not have some interesting discussions about how to address those complaints?
I would like to see a POF Plus, or Premium, or VIP (or an entirely new site, but I’ll use POF in this case). This is not a paid service. This is a special option for users to use to filter themselves out of normal POF searching or messages. It is a way for serious POF users to be accessible by other serious POF users.
Here’s my idea:
1) POF Plus would be an opt in feature, and once you opt in, you are no longer available to anyone but other POF Plus members. POF Plus can still see normal POF users, but not the other way around. This also includes messaging. POF Plus can only be messaged by other POF Plus users, but POF Plus can message normal POF users. No more bot spam because bots won’t seriously try so hard as to meet POF Plus requirements.
2) In order to meet the opt in requirements, you would have to meet strict requirements to ensure how serious you are, for example, a high minimum word count (200?), minimum picture count (5?), and minimum activity (30days?). Activity only counts the days that you have logged on, or it could use other metrics like logged on time.
3) POF Plus exclusivity would make it so users who are seriously looking for other serious people can do so without being harassed by the average joe saying « hi » and getting inboxes spam on the women’s side, and men’s side should get more messages as it filters all of the garbage dick pic, hook up users.
This is an idea. I think it would allow serious people to really get dates if they cut out all the effortless and spam profiles.
By. blehbleh2018
Make it so that women have to message first and men can’t send first messages.
The problems with dating sites is simple, women have a sea of choice delivered directly to them without having to put in any effort, take the massive number of options away and make them work for it.
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I think that encouraging women to be more proactive and message first might help avoid unpleasant men and a flooded inbox. But it still appears to be traditional to wait passively and filter the abundance of incoming messages in an exercise that probably gets boring fast.
I say this because one of the most interesting women I met through POF initiated contact first and asked for a second date before I did, thus putting to rest my fears that I had screwed up somehow.
OKCupid is trying to encourage this approach, but they make it hard to see who actually contacted you unless you spend some time fumbling through DoubleTake.
I just want to be able to match with people based on common intrest. My matches and ultra matches suck ass, got Nothing in common with them
There should be a premium feature where if you message someone, they have to meet you for a date or they get banned.
I think that there should be a mandatory answer policy if you get a message from someone.
The problem with online dating, is that it stays online. Need to make it more physical, people are less picky in person. I’ve sent 500+ messages but have only actually ever met 1 of those.