Here's an idea that I've been thinking about for the last few months, due to this board:
An anonymous match-up service running on a heavily modified version of kareha.
Pretty much, people would be able to create "threads" that only they could modify or delete. Other people could post in these threads to reply to the original post.
People could supply a variety a details such as age, rough location, gender, cons you'll be attending, what they're looking for, etc, as well as include a pic or two.
These threads would be able to be sorted by these aforementioned fields, and interests could be general (ie. anime, jpop, football), this way anonymity would be kept to a high degree and in fact, a user could specify nothing if they wanted to... they just probably wouldn't get many/any replies.
All of the management/updates would be done using password(s), and maybe even some sort of minor private message system can be implicated.
Also, there will be a way to exchange emails anonymously, using the server as a proxy.
Of course, this service would come with a disclaimer warning the users that it's up to them to accept (or not accept) any information as is.
Well, any idea if I should start programming this? Any ideas, additions, problems? Feedback, please.
okay but you should call it "the con hook-up emporium"
Someone should write a Facebook API program that lets you announce crushes anonymously. If two people have a crush on each other the software notifies them both.
im surprised the news feed doesn't do that already
>>4, I remember a website like that a few years ago. It was a 'viral' thing: You'd enter the email addresses of people you had a crush on. The site would then email those people, telling them that someone had a crush on them. They'd be invited to come to the site and enter their crushes. And so on.
The thing is, it never worked the way it was supposed to. People wanted to know who had crushes on them, so they'd enter a lot of names - people theywere really interested in, people they were sort of interested in, people they thought might be interested in them, etc. The site encouraged this as it helped bring in more people. However, it ended up meaning that when people were notified of a 'mutual crush', it didn't necessarily mean either party was all that interested.
Ultimately, there's no risk-free way of finding love. At some point you'll be vulnerable.
>>4 orkut does that already.
bump, for more suggestions.
I like the idea. :)