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I really like the concept, but I find the implementation disappointing.

I know it sounds dumb, but I think of myself as being a rather odd person, and not just like, collecting human skulls odd. It's hard to explain, but I don't feel that most people would get me, or like me once they got to know me. I'd love to find someone who's just like me (sometimes), so when I first clicked, I was a little excited, perhaps naively so. I was disappointed to find that it was just eight multiple-choice questions, many of which I had a hard time answering. There was no nuance.




Fortunately there are many people who have a generic like towards oddity.

There are also plenty of people that only care about a few things important to them, and don't care much about extra oddities.

If you care about the feelings of someone, and you like them, that goes a long way towards them liking you. If you are non-judgemental about the oddities of others, that helps a lot too.


I've never tried the questionnaires on dating sites, but it seems you'd get better results with paired questions. Ask person A what they're looking for in attribute X. Ask person B to describe themselves in attribute X. So someone that is emotionally submissive that likes a partner that is emotionally dominant gets matched with someone that is emotionally dominant that prefers a partner that is emotionally submissive.

Of course that assumes that the person even consciously knows what they want. I don't know how true that is.




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