Charles D
Charles D
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Based on what I’ve read of the comments below, it looks like I’m in agreement with most folks. This is stupid.

Visitors is a very useful tool. Just about every other dating app also has a visitor section for this exact reason. It’s a great way to meet someone you might not have met otherwise, or to potentially express mutual interest.

Furthermore, as I’m sure the morons who manage the site have failed to realize, not everyone plays your “double match” game. So, trying to corner people into paying by removing the visitors section is going to be a waste of time and money for pretty much everyone.

If you really want to corner people into paying, set the site up like the old Hot or Not from 2004 and 2005. On that site at that time, you couldn’t message someone unless you had a double match. Plus, even with a double match you only could message people if you were a paying member. At $5.00 bucks a month, this was a deal. Not only did one not waste time messaging blindly, but it also weeded out the majority of the spam and fake members.

Sadly, based on other comments and my own experiences with OkC management, it looks like this will fall on deaf ears at OkC. But then again, from what I’ve seen they’re only about milking this for every penny they can get. That’s why the keep tweaking the site to find new and improved ways of forcing people to pay for a “FREE” dating site. If you really want to nickle and dime people, follow the Badoo method. Those fuckers know how to get users at every turn, even if they didn’t agree to pay for anything.

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