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benjaffe / chrome-okc-plugin

OkCupid Poly Plugin
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Metrics like "bi" should influence the "bi" and "bi-friendly" categories, etc. #16

Open benjaffe opened 10 years ago

EvanCarroll commented 10 years ago

could you explain?

benjaffe commented 10 years ago

Yes - a user can choose who they are looking for. If they're looking for men and women both, they probably would consider themselves 'bi', or at least something close, like pan-sexual, etc.

But... going down this road would mean adding or changing the data structure that the plugin currently uses. I have a few ideas, but I haven't dived back into this project yet. I think I should have time to do more on this plugin next week.

Cyberoid commented 10 years ago

What about "bi-curious"? That's used a lot by closet bi's as protection and by borderline bi's. It's common parlance. The problem is that it shows up among OKC questions -- like never! I'd like to search on bi-curious people. Where's the data, though? Nowhere.

"Would you mind if a bi person hugged you?" Gimme a break.

benjaffe commented 10 years ago

Agreed @Cyberoid . A bi-curious category would pretty much be a combo of the bi and bi-friendly categories, minus a few questions. Not sure if there's be much value added there. I wish there was more data. If you find any bi-curious questions, do let me know. I'd seriously consider adding that category if there are at least two semi-popular questions in OkC's database. But my fear and suspicion is that they're hiding in the background, with a minority of users ever even seeing them.