An Ecosophian Dating Site?

[ecosophia]

Over on the main blog, one of my readers expressed his frustration with the difficulties of dating during the current viral outbreak, and noted that this was on top of the already substantial difficulties piled on that activity. I commented in response that I'd gotten the impression more than once that there was an unfilled market niche for a dating site that catered to the kind of people who read my books and blog posts -- that is, oddballs. ;-)  The suggestion got an immediate burst of interest from readers, and so I figure I would take it here and raise the question. 

Oh, and I also chose a name for it, to simplify the process: Fireflower. You can psychoanalyze that any way you like!

Is this something that readers would find of interest? What features would you want to see, and not see, in such a site? Comments on very basic issues are fine -- I've never used a dating site, having celebrated my 36th anniversary earlier this year. Or is this something you'd rather the world be without?  Inquiring Druids want to know. 

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My Reaction

[(Anonymous)]

I'm set romantically, so as-is the site wouldn't be useful to me personally. I would be interested in a more broadly oriented social site though. It'd be nice to be able to have the metaphorical beer with people who aren't on a the verge of yet another TDS-driven rant. I'd also be interested in finding like minded folks to maybe start a basic civic organization to tackle small projects like cleaning up litter and such. There are some existing civic organizations in my area, but I get the impression they're mostly either of an explicitly Christian persuasion or more about networking to advance business/career prospects.

Networks like that could have a byproduct of providing pools of potential dating partners, but since romance isn't the main purpose hopefully that minimizes some of the pitfalls and decreases the attractiveness to people with nefarious intentions. (The experience of churches and other groups shows that the prevalence of such people never goes to zero, unfortunately.)