| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 8/30/2006 2:19:01 PM | I have been making a few searches over a period of time and it is time consuming. I am a patient individual but, I believe POF could add a feature to this site that would allow us to permanently remove, as we are logged on under our username, user selected profiles from searches or just displaying. Like many others on this site, I come across profiles that, after a quick read, I know for sure I NEVER would have any interests in contacting them for an inquiry. It becomes a bit annoying to see them pop up over and over again after they have been classified "out". We should not have to wait before they email us before being able to block them out. You also have to consider some people may still be using dial-up connections too. This is a great site and I believe it would be a good tool to keep frustrations low for many individuals. The overall "mood" of the community would be better. There is never enough optimistic people wherever you go.
The feature link could be called: "REMOVE this profile from searches or display while I am logged in"
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 8/30/2006 3:49:11 PM |
We should not have to wait before they email us before being able to block them out. I wasn't aware that "blocking them out" even after they email you that it will keep them from showing up in searches.
If that is the case, wouldn't it be easier to give us a feature to be able to add a name to the "blocked user" list? Then all you'd have to do is add their name to that list and the profile would no longer display in a search?
I don't often do searches, but I now keep a list of user names that do not interest me for one reason or another, then just don't bother to click on those if I happen to be doing a search. | |
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Posted: 8/30/2006 4:11:55 PM | Good reply!
I should have thought about that. Indeed, I believe that if we block them upon receiving an email they do not show up ANYWHERE anymore (maybe forums I don't know but that is it). I guess your suggestion here would make it even easier to set up on the POF management and would give out the same wanted results. Bravo!!!!
Just add a feature to that so we can just add any names in advance. Just easier management for everyone and resulting in cleaner results in future searches. There is just too many fishes and we need this tool.
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Posted: 8/30/2006 4:15:56 PM | But I don't know if it really works like that ... if when we block someone in emailing us, they are also blocked from our searches? I've never had to block someone in my area and so cannot determine if they no longer show up in a search.
Perhaps a moderator could answer that question. I went to the FAQ page, but that issue was not addressed. | |
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Posted: 8/30/2006 4:25:24 PM | In my own experience I have found out that a person I blocked was not showing up anymore while I was logged under my username on the site. So I guess it woud easily work out.
I hope a moderator will consider this here. | |
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 2/2/2007 8:00:37 PM | Hi there,
Great suggerstion. I actually came into the help part looking for this feature & was sadly disappointed that it did not exist. I ekeep on seeing people in my search that I know I'm not interested in & would like to remove them fromappearing in my search.
PLEASE see if you can design this feature. It would add so much value to this site.
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 5/24/2007 8:57:18 AM | The code to do this is trivial. But the (disk) storage space to hold, for each user, a list of users they do not want to see it quite large. While "hundreds of thousands of dollars a month" is obvioulsy an exageration, it would be a rampant increase in the amount of disk space for a feature that is only a slight convenience to a small number of people.
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Posted: 5/24/2007 11:54:30 PM | Disk space is nothing.
Its trying to execute 1000 queries a second against such a table, which would hold at least 10's of millions of records. My database is already over 100 Gigs I will think about it, chances are it would be very abused so capping it at max 50 results removed. Some users have over 5,000 people on their "friends" list. | |
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Posted: 6/12/2007 3:07:14 PM | I have been in many other dating sites, right now I am in five more. ALL OF THEM have this option, to block or remove from our sight people that we do not want to see anymore...just pushing a button.
Certainly, I give a special credit to Plentyoffish. To me it is the best dating site, they have been doing many improvements. The site is tremendously hot. I got so many friends here than in other places. But...Plentyoffish still has this problem. Still, everyday I have to have something bitter iny life...to see people that I do not want to see no more anymore
Please Plentyoffish, help us.  | |
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Posted: 6/12/2007 4:13:05 PM | ALL OF THEM have this option, to block or remove from our sight people that we do not want to see anymore...just pushing a button.
How many servers do you use to host the site?
I have one web server, one mail server, two database servers now and a couple of little web servers to run the Userplane instant messenger. So, under 10, but I’ve started to scale up. I’m the size of Friendster and AmericanSingles.com and they each have 200 servers.
PlentyofFish Team
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 7/4/2007 11:30:17 PM | I don't know why, but I had always assumed this site would be using PHP and MySQL.. I just noticed it's in ASP =/ Evil Microsoft Empire supporter! =P lol...
Anyways, Will it tie up more processing power? Yes. However, think of the bandwidth it would save? The Dbase is all on server side, so the query wouldn't tie up bandwidth. Every user blocked is another 3k or so for the thumbnail of that user that isn't displayed, and even more when the member clicks on that person's profile link thinking it's someone they are interested in, only to find it's not, and they just loaded another 10-20k worth of data. That doesn't sound like much, but as any admin will know, if you're processing 1000's of query's per second already, 3k per query times 1000 query's in a second is a lot of bandwidth. Bandwidth costs less than server space and processing power.
Also, have you considered doing a split database? Obviously your database is quite large, having a split database, while initially would be more difficult to manage, may help processing run a little smoother as the request for a single bit of information wouldn't require a query of a 100gig file, but instead a 10 gig file. This would also make it easier to split the processing across numberous servers, and if one server goes down, it only effects one small aspect of the service rather than the service in it's entirety. | |
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Posted: 7/7/2007 4:09:16 PM | I did block a couple of persons that they do not have interest in myself and I don't have interest in them as well .But still I see them everytime I get logged.
I think that the reason of this site is to come here to enjoy a moment...not to get our life sour watching people that we want to forget...: fish: | |
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Posted: 11/13/2007 6:57:24 PM | But the (disk) storage space to hold, for each user, a list of users they do not want to see is quite large.
Someone in this thread mentioned 5000 friends for some users. Let's assume that as a cap. If, in the worst case scenario, EVERYONE on PoF blocks 5000 other people, assuming 1 Million PoF users (I can't find any figure at http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx), we'd need 5G records, times 8 bytes. Anyone willing to donate an old 40-Gig hard drive? And if we get real, most users will never block more than perhaps 100 people, so we'd have space for indexes.
I assume the current schema looks something like this:
CREATE TABLE users (
id integer NOT NULL,
height integer,
...
);
To implement blocking, we'd need a table
CREATE TABLE X_blocked_Y (
X integer REFERENCES users.id,
Y integer REFERENCES users.id,
);
A SELECT COUNT(*) FROM X_blocked_Y WHERE x=? AND Y=?
will reveal if user X blocked user Y.
The other ("OK" "god of love") site is free too, and has this feature.
| [ The Admin has already indicated in his Post above that Disk Storage is not an Issue / Ticketoride ] |
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Posted: 11/13/2007 10:30:26 PM | I'm not sure how they can do this but there should also be a filter in place to remove the creeps.
And why does it always bleep out the word account?
Also, I know this is free, but I would feel less embarrassed to be telling people I am on it if it didn't look like it was free. I would donate a couple cents to make this place nicer looking, but something tells me whomever is in charge probably wouldn't have to worry about finding a couple of cents or volunteers. | |
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 5/24/2008 4:12:20 PM | | If a copy of the user's Contact List were stored locally on their computer, the search or match results could be screened against that list, using their own CPU time, before the results are displayed, and the screened results sent back to the server for retrieval. Users could be added to that list manually, without having to send or receive a message like it is now. But it would require new code for the search and match functions, since the server would have to send out new matches on demand to fill in the gaps. This would save bandwidth, since people would not end up viewing unwanted profiles/thumbnails over and over with each search. | |
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Posted: 7/23/2008 7:32:18 PM | I think POF is as good as any of the other sites I have been on as far as features and response time....and yeah you cant beat the price! I have been on most of the larger pay sites for bits of time and I have been on here for about a year and a half...
This however is the one feature that is missing from POF that I really wish could happen and I think it would be every bit as good as the pay sites if it had it.
Thanks for everything.
McLovin.... | |
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 8/5/2008 2:02:37 AM |
From: Admin
Subject: REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 5/24/2007 @ 115430 PM
Disk space is nothing.
Its trying to execute 1000 queries a second against such a table, which would hold at least 10's of millions of records. My database is already over 100 Gigs I will think about it, chances are it would be very abused so capping it at max 50 results removed. Some users have over 5,000 people on their "friends" list.
OK Cupid dot com, Yahoo Personals and Match.com have this aforementioned profile removal from search functionality. I have removed at least 400 profiles from my search list on OK Cupid dot com and removed 1,965 profiles from my search list on Match.com.
Until you add the profile removal from search functionality with an unlimited number of profile removals, I will not be using your web site that much, if at all, because I like to save, not waste, my very valuable and limited time.
If you want to be competitive with the aforementioned three web sites, then you must add the profile removal from search functionality with an unlimited number of profile removals functionality. On the other hand, if you do not want to be competitive, then do not add this functionality.
I sincerely hope that you make the right choice to be competitive with the aforementioned three web sites and to respect each of your customers' valuable and limited time by adding this functionality.
Sincerely,
ChildfreeMan1962 | |
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 8/25/2008 6:50:14 PM | What I see from various replies in this thread is that there are some CAPABLE computer software/systems people on POF. Perhaps the "chief programmer" would be willing to consider forming a modest size volunteer team to solve getting this important REMOVE feature implemented. I suggest "modest size" because in large teams too much energy goes into just managing the team and maintaining coordination.
The team could come up with a solution that took into account the various constraints like search response time, bandwidth constraints, getting the most value out of POF memory, etc. I myself do have experience in database management systems design and programming, BUT my experience is also quite dated. Nevertheless, SOME issues are quite basic and independent of the programming language. An example would be how the database is arranged. I would guess that the whole database would be split into at least two parts - males and females.
Ideally, if you get a group of smart people working toward a common goal, one or more of them may come up with some Outside the Box thinking that leads to a viable implementation of the needed REMOVE feature.
I suppose it's obvious why a REMOVE feature is so valuable. But let me formalize it a bit.
If a computer can do a straightforward task MUCH faster than a human, then it's a waste of the human's time to ask him/her to do it. And people understandably get a bit surly when a system that SHOULD save them time causes them to instead waste time.
Dito220 in Mankato, MN USA, born 1940 | |
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Posted: 9/16/2008 2:18:34 AM | I have been trying to open the link in the message above, but just come back to the all forums page...how do I follow a link to another thread from a post?
Just click on it - Trappedonbayst  | |
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 9/16/2008 3:51:04 PM |
And people understandably get a bit surly when a system that SHOULD save them time causes them to instead waste time.
People seem to be wasting more time complaining about what the site should or shouldn't have instead of actively searching for whatever.
I don't think we really have any room for complaints considering Big Fish has saved us at least one huge step in our quests. | |
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| REMOVE from future searches feature needed
Posted: 1/2/2009 1:10:47 PM | The lack of this feature is a valid concern. It makes it nearly impossible to fully search your possible matches over the course of time.
I'd gladly pay to have it implemented. However, the volunteer coder idea is a good one. I bet if the admin and few experienced programmers brainstormed for an hour or two in chat, a viable solution would emerge. Already in this thread, someone has suggested client side filtering, which might be a workable solution. | |
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