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Now I have N accounts and message whoever I like with those N accounts.

Basically, a site has to offer something to both women and men to do better than OKC. That proposal just puts a minor speed bump in front of men. As a group, men have few compunctions about abusing sites in order to get what they want. Multiple accounts to spam women is not a significant obstacle.



> Now I have N accounts and message whoever I like with those N accounts.

And now you have to work harder to manage that, reducing the probability that you'll be doing it.


Nah. Someone writes a script. It becomes a browser extension. Now it's zero work. Women abandon your site, because the experience is no better than OKCupid. Men follow suit, because they tend to go where the women are.

Basically, your approach is the functional equivalent of DRM. With all the problems that go with that.


That still takes effort beyond just signing up. I think you're overestimating the willingness of the average guy to either script something up or go out of his way to find a browser extension. Most people's knowledge of browser extensions begins and ends with AdBlock anyway.


It doesn't take much to go "Hey brah, follow this link, it'll let you hit on dozens of chicks a day".

But you know what? It doesn't take all that many before women have experiences not so different from that of OKC.




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