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by Dilpil 5587 days ago
Heres how people actually use this application.

You get crushed. Now you crush everyone you know of the opposite gender to figure out who it was. You then email the person who crushed you. But she only crushed you to figure out who crushed her...

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It's the exact same thing as http://adore.ly, a Facebook app that's been out since the beginning of January.

  "Over 50 friends have been connected on adore.ly"
which itself is the same thing as goodcrush.com, which came out a few years ago...
You can now only un-crush two people per day. I think this should create enough lag time to prevent this strategy from working.
To what extent are people warned about this? If there's not a symmetric restriction on adding - or at least a prominent warning in the interface for adding - I imagine a lot of people might not realize this strategy has problems until they stick themselves with it...
The Crusher's Dilemma :)
I came here to say just this.

But I had something to add. A higher credit value will make people crush only (mostly?) on real crushes. Oh but this applies only to poor people :D.

why would someone do that, at risk of someone they don't actually crush on crushing them back?
Maybe they crush on everybody (or only make/stay friends with people they have a crush on), but know that it's socially unacceptable to just admit that. There should really just be a "I'll take anybody" flag in the preferences.
"Someone hacked my fb acc!" curiosity excuse?
How do you know someone of the opposite gender crushed you?
Why does it have to be someone of the opposite gender?
Sounds like the sort of domino-effect I'd like to have.
Genius.