This is actually something that I'm still trying to figure out, and hopefully can be improved in the future. Maybe you can help me out:
So, the problem we'd like to solve is what set of 250 or so cards has the highest predictive value in that similar answers lead to the best interpersonal matches?
The problem with hobbies is that there are so many of them and not many people feel very strongly one way or the other about many of them. You probably wouldn't not give someone a chance just because they prefer ping pong to pool, for example. Rather, I was looking for what might be deal-breakers.
The Interests page and tagging in general is what I am hoping will fill that need of specifying your individual interests and matching based on them. Here is where you can tag yourself with whatever you'd like and then search for users and posts based on these tags. The card swiping's function is mostly just a first-pass elimination filter.
I had the thought of perhaps doing categories instead with regard to cards. For example, sense of humor is often very important in people. Perhaps 50 of the cards should be memes? And then perhaps 50 of the cards be political, 50 of the cards be hobbies, etc.? Or perhaps there could be multiple similarity percentages, each of a different category? It's still very experimental and I'm not sure what the correct path is.
So, the problem we'd like to solve is what set of 250 or so cards has the highest predictive value in that similar answers lead to the best interpersonal matches?
The problem with hobbies is that there are so many of them and not many people feel very strongly one way or the other about many of them. You probably wouldn't not give someone a chance just because they prefer ping pong to pool, for example. Rather, I was looking for what might be deal-breakers.
The Interests page and tagging in general is what I am hoping will fill that need of specifying your individual interests and matching based on them. Here is where you can tag yourself with whatever you'd like and then search for users and posts based on these tags. The card swiping's function is mostly just a first-pass elimination filter.
I had the thought of perhaps doing categories instead with regard to cards. For example, sense of humor is often very important in people. Perhaps 50 of the cards should be memes? And then perhaps 50 of the cards be political, 50 of the cards be hobbies, etc.? Or perhaps there could be multiple similarity percentages, each of a different category? It's still very experimental and I'm not sure what the correct path is.