Dear OKCupid, WTF?

[emanix]

Dear OKCupid,

We've known each other a long time. I've seen you go through a lot of changes. I remember when we met, way back when you were still The Spark, the special connection I felt between us. We had so much in common! I really felt that you were a site that cared about me as a person. I felt like who I was mattered to you. I fell for your

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[world_rim_walke]

If I hadn't already left OkCupid, I would be tempted to do so after hearing this, though I might contact their administration to make sure that their system wasn't hacked.

[janieluk]

They seem to be gradually sweeping through everyone I know with those emails. I got mine 2-3 months ago.

[alethia_juturna]

Exactly. I thought it was spam...

[mrs_crater]

I think they're sending this to everyone gradually as I got it a couple of weeks ago and thought "hmm.. obviously just trying to encourage people to log in more often" rather than it being based on any kind of attractiveness measure.

I wouldn't leave because of this - it is a good poly friendly dating site :-)

[softfruit]

Well, quite. "Dear member, you know all that stuff about personality matching and such? What lulz. But good news! We have replaced that loser-friendly algorithm with one we bought off hotornot.com".

Mind you, people have much more love for facebook than for lj, so...

[emanix]

I note that this is based purely on click throughs - which frankly means that posting a picture with maggots coming out of my skull might get me rated this highly as users click out of sheer morbid curiosity. having a picture which is clicked on less often does not = less attractive.

[sunspiral]

I bailed on OK Cupid a while back, after finding them to be getting steadily sleazier. But this really jumps the shark.

[world_rim_walke]

"Jumps the shark."?

This phrase astounds me.

[sunspiral]

Here's the history of the phrase.

[world_rim_walke]

Neat. Thanks!