1. the target audience is people of adventurous spirit with a good sense of humor (which I appreciate!)

2. you’re only explicitly ‘required’ to spend 20 minutes with the person. that’s the whole spirit of a CrazyBlindDate (no ’shopping’, no buildup of preconceived notions or expectation, no pressure, and super minimal time commitment)

3. I’m an attractive 29yo guy with tons of friends and who has no trouble meeting people, but their matching algorithm (which I’m fascinated to figure out how it works) has matched me with almost consistent duds (I’ve been on 7 CBDs so far)

4. _because_ of the low expectation for chemistry, it inspires the daters to “make the best” of the situation and ask the question, “what do I like about so-and-so?” instead of “do I like so-and-so?”. I’m an unapologetic optimist, so take this with a grain of salt. I’ve met lots of nice young ladies of all different flavors.

5. I love the novelty and adventure of it and I’m totally hooked. It’s really widened my world up quite a bit. We tend to run in the same circles and meet the same people. On sites where you pick your dates, you think you know what you want, so you end up with the same type of person (or same range of person) every time. CBD does not assume that you know what you want and surprises you.

Did I mention that I love it and am totally hooked?

Evan

First, I wish these guys massive success. I tip my virtual hat to everyone who “goes for it.” And even if this doesn’t work out, these guys will have leaned a lot, which will help them with their next project.

File the answer under “life is too short.” If you wanted to meet someone online and then meet them in real life, for dating and perhaps sex, wouldn’t you want to use the best tools out there? Or at least ones where you could “see” before you “buy”?

The first thing I learned about online dating is this: you can tell a lot about if a person might have chemistry for you just by looking at a picture. Period. Who’d a thunk it?!

So unless this is a site for “undatables,” which I’m guessing it will may become, then why would you use it (unless you were also an undatable). It will definitely make for some “good” stories. But as far as it attracting good looking people…I doubt it.

You are given a little information about the person and some answers they wrote to a few questions — if they don’t appeal to you, or if they are looking for something you are not, then don’t go out with them. You don’t see a picture or any details so you have no preconceived notions.

Go out, meet someone new, and — whether it works out or not, or has the potential for a relationship or not — have a fun time in the process. What the hell is wrong with that?

How is this remotely a “stalker/predator’s field day”? Why would someone like that go through all the trouble of setting up a _blind_ date when they can just go to any random coffee shop and see people?

If anything, this is *anti* stalker because you don’t even see the person until you meet them.

They specifically say “We understand it’s not for everyone, but it is for social, outgoing, and adventurous people”, obviously that does not include yourself.

As for your comment “no female in their right mind would do this (actually, no attractive guy either)” — well, I have a date tonight, so you are incorrect on both counts.

instead of total blind dates, why not use the 6 million profiles or so you already have on okcupid (i’m one of them) and ask to willing participant members to do the following :

-> select 20 members from your city as “favorites” within, say, the next week

One thing i like about okcupid is their matching algorythm,which is by far more accurate than any other dating site. That means each member of a given city will probably choose their 20 “faves” already based on pictures and chemistry % resulting from the algorythm.

There’s a high probability at this point that least 2 or 3 matches will chose you also as one of their fave.

When that happens (and even if there’s only one cross-favorite), then the website could setup the date that would be “partially blind”, because you wouldn’t know which of the 20 you selected will show up at the date.

Get the idea ? It’s like a wedding checklist or a christmas gift list, you never know in advance what you gonna get

I see in my idea a much better compromise, because i’m sure that past a first date with a girl you find ugly or boring, you’ll never want to use crazyblinddate.com ever again.

I think this “half-blind” date concept would be by far a better way for okcupid to monetize it and make it work, because they already have a huge database of profiles from okcupid they could submit the concept to and have them enrolled for a trial very quickly.

I know i would sign up immediately to such a concept.

What do you guys think ?

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1. Safety - this will be a stalker/predator’s field day, as they can divulge minimal information, and then meet out. It does not matter if the place is a public place or not, the hook is they met you, and could follow you.

2. Weird - having a blind date when set up by a friend is awkward enough, but once set up by a 6 question algorhythm, is just weird.

Lastly, what happens when you show up, and the person is NOT anything you normally would go out with? Then, you have to waste at least an hour, plus your night, and get out of there.

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