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Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

I’ll start with the glaring logical problem. It is claimed in the article that ‘like’ means someone is really interested in you then later on it says to use ‘like’ as a bookmarking system. Which is it? Someone who’s really interested or just bookmarking your profile for later?

Not long after discovering online dating sites I decided ‘likes’ and all their various forms on OKC and elsewhere were useless. So many women used them for bookmarks responding to them was pointless. Some would take offense at the assumption of interest, some would even have it in their profiles that their likes were bookmarks, don’t respond. Furthermore OKC is flooded with bots that like profiles. Making likes a lead to fake profiles most of the time. Having likes behind the paywall was thus no big loss.

Now as to removing visitors let’s get to the real reason. Having viewing likes as a paid for feature didn’t do much when people could see their visitors. Men don’t get that many visitors and the profile views and the like number increasing men could make reasonable guesses. Now this could be solved by removing the counter but the counter is the way to get people to pay to see their likes. Nobody is going to pay unless there are likes to see. (another reason there are like bots or why they are slow to be purged) So instead, visitors was removed.

Just make it a pay for site or a free site. Fake free sites where the functionality requires a paid account are irritating and dishonest.

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