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user-inactivated  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I did an informal study about Hubski

I like experiments. Thank you. This reminds me of something I once did on OkCupid. My real profile, I was honest. My profile indicated I was intelligent, creative, adventurous and literate, and also non-pretentious. Little iinterest was shown by other okcupiders.

So as an experiment, I created a separate profile. Female. Straight. Found a photo online of a young asian woman, stock photo. Filled out my profile with empty, hollow phrases, no real personality, vague, superficial.

This second profile got bombarded immediately with IM requests from hundreds of guys.

(sadness)





lil  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The OKCupid responses might be the saddest think I've read all night.

tacocat  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

OKCupid is a palace built on a sadness foundation. I moderated there until seeing penises and arguing about rules lost its charm.

empty  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh bleh, moderating OKCupid is the worst. I made an account to see how the site worked, then left it alone for six months. Then I was invited to be a moderator! Then I spent a few hours deleting pictures of genitals and... well, just like you said, arguing with other moderators about whether or not some creepy message from a creepy guy was creepy enough to be too creepy.

I gotta say, though, they have some well-put-together moderation tools. I've been a volunteer moderator for several other sites and none have had such a streamlined moderation UX as OKCupid. It's really a power multiplier for moderators and a great example of how important UX can be to get the job done.

tacocat  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reddit could learn from OKC. Giving mods public faces leads to a lot of ego tripping and if it was anonymous, grunt work there'd be less moderator focused drama. In theory at least

empty  ·  3396 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. I think this is why 4chan janitors are required to remain anonymous.

user-inactivated  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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user-inactivated  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  

jleopold said . . .

    So, I made a second account, to try to replicate the average user.

And you said . . .

    I created a separate profile.

Which now makes me wonder. Am I the only person in the entirety of the internet that has never created a fucking alt?

TheVenerableCain  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm with you. Never created a fucking alt. I have made an alternate account for other purposes, however.

user-inactivated  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A fucking alt. Interesting. Would this alt be one you created for you to fuck (a'la Ryan Gosling) , or do you give it independent will, and its entire design is to do the fucking all on its own, with whoever it chooses? I won't judge you either way, am merely curious.

user-inactivated  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think if I were to create a fucking alt, it'd just follow me around all day and troll me. He seems like that kind of guy.