Talk:Online dating

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The link to online-datingsites.com is a money maker. They make money simply by giving referals to websites. Anyone else suspicious of their intent putting a link in the wiki?

Yes.

It would be better to link directly to the sites.

I heard rumors that some net dating services are a con. Should we add that to the article? --SuperDude 03:47, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

"Online dating" is by far the more common name for this. I am moving the article. --Macrakis 03:22, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikidating

Should we make an online dating service in the form of a Wiki? --SuperDude 22:55, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Sure! Here's how it could work on Wikipedia.

Wikipedians could use their userboxes to make profiles. Anyone whose user page contains Template:User friendly, Template:User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User girlfriendwish or Template:User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User girlfriendwish, and userboxes for a few basic things (such as gender, home city/region and language) would be considered part of the pool; those on other language Wikipedias would be considered if they had matching Babel templates.

When a user was searching for matches, they would run an open-source script that someone would put on a Web page for the purpose. Because of the scripting involved, this would probably have to be either a special page or non-wiki. The script would tell them what userboxes they would need to add, if any. If they had all the requisite userboxes, they could enter their search criteria (e.g. date must identify as heterosexual, must be between 25 and 30 years old, must be en-3 or higher, must live in Canada, must not be blocked, must not be an Aspie, must have made 50 or more edits in English main namespace). They would also have options about what to consider (astrological sign? favourite colour? music preference?) Then, the script would search the User namespaces of all wikipedias and generate a compatibility score for each result. Then, it would output a ranked list of links, with the most likely matches at the top.

Note that some users put boxes on sub-pages of their user page, so those would have to be searched as well.

Finally, the searcher would follow these links, read the user pages, and decide whether each one was interesting. He or she would then post to the user talk page of the object of his or her affections, then add it to his or her watchlist. If no reply was forthcoming, he or she could use Special:Emailuser. Boilerplate greetings would be available for this purpose, as would boilerplate replies of both yes and no, but many users would choose to write their own messages. If the person accepted, the two could continue talking on the user talk pages, use the e-mail form to start a conversation that way, or use instant messaging. And they would live happily ever after. The end. :-) Seahen 12:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

i think is a brilliant idea.go ahead as far im concerned fully give my support.22:13,Felisberto6May2006(UTC)

I'm not sure how the whole "community of editors" meme would really help much, unless if you think hundreds of people editing your personal ad for clarity and content would really help your chances. There are already plenty of online dating sites and some with tie-ins to existing communities, but if you feel you can start something, I wouldn't be one to stop you. It just seems like anything of that nature would take place on a user to user basis by people examining profiles and running into people with similar interests aligned to theirs, which is what a dating service would want to do anyway.--BigCow 06:31, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Check the *Personals Wikia - it's very new, a long way from operating as a dating site, by the look of it. There are a few technical challenges, I think. --Singkong2005 03:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Maybe if users could protect their own pages.... Seahen 21:16, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

I think that Online Dating is pointless because you can run into multiple sex and drug addicts. I don't think the links should be on here but that's just my opinon

Heya, toots! --AAA! ^{(AAAA • AAAAAAAA)} 09:25, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

online dating is simple. stalkers lie and say they are someone their not. they act like nice guys and when they ask to meet you, and you say yes, they will rape you and leave you for dead and you will end up with aids. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.87.131.90 (talk) 22:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

The link to Online Dating Rights.com should have stayed because it is non-profit and deals with intense government regulation of online dating sites that is just beginning via a gateway law regulating the internationally oriented sites (only 0.4% of Americans consider dating non-Americans compared to a majority of Europeans actively doing so). - Jim

junk removal edit

MillionaireMatch.com is not mentioned in the Flass artcle. From history page :"This information is from the Rebecca Flass article."--Jim 05:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Possible images

So I just removed a huge Mate1 ad from the article, because in my opinion (although I believe it was added in good faith by User:KRW), it's inappropriate for an article about a general product or service to feature prominently the advertising or image of one single product within the class. Some examples I looked at included:

• Soft Drink where the main picture shows a variety of brands on a supermarket shelf (with a photo of the Diet Pepsi product line much lower down)
• Potato chip where two of the three pictures are of chips without packaging, and the third is a non-current ad
• Fast food where all of the food is shown unwrapped (and only the Big Mac is clearly identifiable), plus a nondescript interior photo and a photo of several adjacent restaurants
• Chocolate bar with an unwrapped chocolate bar shown.

This brings up a quandry: what do we use for images? My best ideas are to make mockups of a hypothetical dating site front page or ad and use them instead of real images. Suggestions? --ByeByeBaby 05:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

more male members

Can anyone come up with a citation for the statement that most site have more male members than female? Copitorojo 00:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I think it's just generally assumed that there are more men hard up for love than women, but no, there's no citation and I don't think you're going to find one. I'd love to see someone come up with some real statistics on online dating sites and expose them for the scam they are. Shreditor 00:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I have been using Plentyoffish.com for some months. The ratio of males-to-females is difficult to measure, but one thing is clear: Women are very unlikely to mark a male member in their favorites list. Males are less selective with their lists. Female members regularly have 20+ male "fans", but males rarely have more than a handful of "fans"

I would assume that depends on the dating site. Manye dating sites have a lot of women from poorer countries like e.g. the Philippines looking for men in richer countries. Some dating sites are even especially meant for contact between Western men and women from e.g. Asia, Latin-America or Russia. --Oddeivind (talk) 07:23, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Added new links

I added 2 new links at see also section to dating and adult friend finder page. I thought those 2 pages are related to current page. CMIIW. Dwikristianto (talk) 12:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Matchmaking: restrictions

Besides only providing matches to individuals in the same country as the person conducting the search for a partner; following criteria probably also need to match:

• a comparable body mass index
• a comparable age (difference in years being >5 years) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.130.240.232 (talk) 07:06, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Also, anyone that is able to subscribe should be free from STD's and other transferrable diseases. Medical background should also be available. Perhaps it's even best to link up the service with electronic identification cards (state-issued in some countries). 81.246.128.53 (talk) 08:34, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Age Restrictions

Shouldn't this article mention that all dating sites require users to be at least 18 years of age?--76.106.233.222 (talk) 05:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Very negatively weighted

This article has a much larger section describing the potential negatives of online dating than the positives. It feels like it was partly written by users burned by the system. No mention is made of the obvious fact that, for instance, online dating has at the very least made it easier for people living in rural settings or small communities to access potential mates, those with very busy careers, or the disabled, or people whose mobility is restricted for various other reasons. The statistics regarding the vast boomer population that is single and turning to the internet are not expanded on. The various negatives that are the same whether one is dating on or offline are not emphasized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.113.164.82 (talk) 08:27, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I thought it would be helpful to add some information on whose responsibility it is for online dating safety, online site owner or users. Here's a link of an article on the topic I thought could be helpful, let me know! http://www.christiancrush.com/relationships/online-dating-safety-who-is-responsible.html

Dating talk

Hello peeps lets talk;) Kiarrastangel (talk) 17:37, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Graphics on dating websites per country

Hello, I added the graphics about the biggest dating websites per country last June. Could you tell me whether you find them usefull ? Thank you for your constructive comments. Hippo75 (talk) 11:46, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't find them useful. I don't think either of those websites have verifiable data, and the images are taking up too much space in the article. I think a list or comparison page would be better suited to provide information about these dating services. vortexcube (talk) 05:25, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

I'd prefer they were removed. MyWOT.com is not a reliable source as it bases its ratings largely on user-submitted opinion which can be manipulated. K7L (talk) 16:43, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Take these ugly things off asap! They are WP:OR and alexa is not a reliable source. Abductive (reasoning) 15:50, 9 December 2014 (UTC)