_refugee_ :)
That's cool! It's a man-in-the-middle attack, except Alice is _expecting_ to talk to Eve but gets paired with Bob. "Man-on-both-ends attack". The English wizard Derren Brown used the same weird trick to defeat ½ of a group of grandmasters and a plant (I think it was Robert). IIRC there was a chatbot or something that did the same thing to spoof a Turing test, but I can't find anything about it; maybe it hasn't happened yet. It seems like it would be very difficult to prevent this; I wonder what Tinder will do?
Probably talking about cleverbot. Which does something similar. It logs old responses and uses them to respond to people. This made some users thing they were randomly being paired up, and then swapped every now and again in mid conversation. They can't do anything short of requiring actual identification for your account. And that still doesn't stop someone from doing this.IIRC there was a chatbot or something that did the same thing to spoof a Turing test, but I can't find anything about it; maybe it hasn't happened yet.
It seems like it would be very difficult to prevent this; I wonder what Tinder will do?
What don't you guys understand about the no shares just smiles tag?!
puts on flagamuffin hat "It's lost all meaning. The tag is the equivalent to 'don't like this picture I just got out of bed' Facebook posts, or reddit's 'test post please ignore' posts. But you know, Hubski is supposed to be 'better than reddit.' shrugs. takes off flagamuffin hat. Recedes back into the darkness
While it's true that I would love for Hubski to be something different in a default sense, the best that I think that we can hope for is a noticeable improvement. You need a benevolent dictator to create a universal environment of a certain quality. But, that does not scale well. Of course, our approach is to make everyone their own personal dictator. But then again, maybe the assumptions that underpin this approach are wrong? Are people by-and-large unable or unwilling to act as their own filters? Are they mostly place-seekers rather than place-builders?