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Don't Have An Abusive Partner? This Dating Site Promises To Take Up The Slack...
"‘I did it for your own good’ is not what you want to hear when the dating site you use sets you up on a bad date. On purpose. ‘Everybody does it’ is similarly disconcerting. But that’s exactly what OkCupid is saying about experiments involving its users. The free dating and social networking website announced, “We experiment on human beings!” in a blog post on Monday. “OkCupid doesn’t really know what it’s doing. Neither does any other website. It’s not like people have been building these things for very long, or you can go look up a blueprint or something,” the website’s co-founder Christian Rudder wrote. “Most ideas are bad. Even good ideas could be better. Experiments are how you sort all this out.”"
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