I used to be an extremely heavy user of dating sites and met my wife on one. Suffice it to say that I've basically tried them all and and figured out enough about the system to play it with far more success than most men (having met somewhere between 100 and 200 women from various different ones).
I don't think this is worth it. I think it's a great idea to let members of this unusual community socialize, in principle. By all means, have a weekly or monthly "Dating Open Post" where the singles can come out to play and chat and take things to private email if they click - a friend of mine is going on a date this week with a woman he met on a Facebook lockdown skeptics group - but a full blown dating site?
I don't think it is worth it. It's too far away from JMG's core skills, huge amount of time and hassle to run (I'm assuming there will be at least some kind of nominal monthly charge like other dating sites), all kinds of legal and compliance issues - it's not the kind of thing you do as a side project. On top of which I expect a significant gender skew etc which means people may not achieve much success.
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Date: 2020-10-16 02:20 pm (UTC)I don't think this is worth it. I think it's a great idea to let members of this unusual community socialize, in principle. By all means, have a weekly or monthly "Dating Open Post" where the singles can come out to play and chat and take things to private email if they click - a friend of mine is going on a date this week with a woman he met on a Facebook lockdown skeptics group - but a full blown dating site?
I don't think it is worth it. It's too far away from JMG's core skills, huge amount of time and hassle to run (I'm assuming there will be at least some kind of nominal monthly charge like other dating sites), all kinds of legal and compliance issues - it's not the kind of thing you do as a side project. On top of which I expect a significant gender skew etc which means people may not achieve much success.