Singles meetups. Singles meetups are tailored to women-style filters. Men have a bad experience because they can’t filter properly. Women have a bad experience because there aren’t enough quality men.
I don’t know what you mean by “can’t filter properly”. That isn’t usually how the problems with dating, on the men’s side, are described?
If this were true, it seems like it should be exploitable by smart men. If there are an abundance of women, can the men figure out a method for sorting effectively even if the context isn’t conducive to it?
(I think this is symmetrical, and the women should be able to hack the dating app, if there’s an abundance of quality men. But in-person meetups are much higher bandwidth and so have better affordances for bespoke filtering approaches.)
If the thing was really symmetrical like the post describes it should definitely be exploitable by someone, not necessarily smart, but with unconventional preferences?
I don’t know what you mean by “can’t filter properly”. That isn’t usually how the problems with dating, on the men’s side, are described?
If this were true, it seems like it should be exploitable by smart men. If there are an abundance of women, can the men figure out a method for sorting effectively even if the context isn’t conducive to it?
(I think this is symmetrical, and the women should be able to hack the dating app, if there’s an abundance of quality men. But in-person meetups are much higher bandwidth and so have better affordances for bespoke filtering approaches.)
Yes, both sides are absolutely exploitable. But (like Morpheus notes) you have to be weird and most people are a priori not weird.
If the thing was really symmetrical like the post describes it should definitely be exploitable by someone, not necessarily smart, but with unconventional preferences?
I’m claiming that if the problem is about filtering being hard, in particular, one should be able to munchkin effective filtering methods.
I’m skeptical that that’s a good description of the problem though.