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by bennyfreshness 5358 days ago
Very good points! THX!

Right now its all women, although I'm experimenting w/ Mechanical Turk to rate photos and other things. Hopefully I can lower costs by using our robot overlords.

I don't mean to prey on emotions, I just want to offer a service to improve your online dating experience.

I agree, men could be equally useful in judging profiles, I have to find out the comfort level guys have with other guys critiquing them. Personally I wouldn't care.

Not sure I understood your last point exactly, please elaborate..
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dlikhten 5357 days ago
Joke attempt. Men who are good at picking up women may be the best advisers for men looking to pick up women, while women may indicate what they'd like to see from a guy but their advise may not be the best advise in how to pick up women.

Ex: A woman may have an idea what she'd like to see. However she may have no idea how to attract other women. :P Whereas the ladies' man (Leon Phelps)... you get my point. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213790/)

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dlikhten 5357 days ago
FWIW check out the posts from OkCupid on their statistical analytics of dating photos and such. It was an excelent overview as to what people find attractive and how the same person with two diff cameras and shots can appear on opposite scales of the attractive-o-meter.

*Idea -> professional photos for online profiles -> guaranteed awesomeness.

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