Dating Denial of Service

January 4, 2011 5:00 AM

OkTrends confirms that the more objectively attractive a woman, the more likely she is to be contacted by a man. One man's solution? Dating Denial of Service.

(from hacker news, but the...lack of outrage on hacker news is rather startling).

posted by asymptotic (10 comments total)

This sounds more like a honeypot setup diverting unwanted traffic (from the POV of the perpetrator.) Male users carpet-bombing attractive-looking women in their 20s is a known problem with online dating - if this bit of hacking makes dating sites respond and create better usability the way Google responds to SEO fuckery we'll get a better experience in the end.
posted by Space Coyote at 5:08 AM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

Just yesterday, my smart, funny, popular, Nigella-Lawson-lookalike friend introduced me to the guy she's been dating for the past couple of months. He's an Ayn-Rand-reading virgin who works a crappy night job, lives in a sharehouse with 5 other dudes and has enough body hair to weave an elaborate Persian rug. She met him online.

Now I understand how this happened. Thanks, Metafilter!
posted by jaynewould at 5:15 AM on January 4, 2011 [5 favorites]

(Not that body hair = bad, by the way. But we were at the beach, and some man-grooming was definitely in order.)
posted by jaynewould at 5:17 AM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

"objectively attractive"?
posted by DU at 5:18 AM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

What it sounds like is misogynistic bullshit.
posted by empath at 5:21 AM on January 4, 2011 [3 favorites]

I have to agree with empath on this one. And the meat of this post is a link to a single comment at Reddit? The whole thing stinks of a troll.
posted by Old'n'Busted at 5:26 AM on January 4, 2011

It's a pretty crappy post for Hacker News. Surprised it got upvoted so many times.
posted by melt away at 5:28 AM on January 4, 2011

It's a pretty crappy post for Hacker News MetaFilter.
posted by fixedgear at 5:31 AM on January 4, 2011 [2 favorites]

"objectively attractive"?

Measured on the Tapthat Scale, where one tapthat is equivalent to the inverse of one bonerkiller. Distribution of the female population is normalised around 5 tapthats.
posted by jaynewould at 5:32 AM on January 4, 2011

What it sounds like is misogynistic bullshit.

You're asserting that the OP hates women because he found a creative way to attract one?
posted by Space Coyote at 5:34 AM on January 4, 2011 [3 favorites]