Dan Abelon (sorry for the misspelling earlier) wrote in to provide some additional information:
We absolutely do not set users up with fake people. People do not respond because they are either looking at another site in another tab, or have stepped away from the computer. We realize that this is an issue. Within the week, we are tweaking the technology to ensure that people don’t continually get set up on dates if they are not in front of their screens.
Point taken, the dates are not fake and the systems needs to be tweaked so that you aren’t sent on dates while you’re reading TMZ in another browser window.
The other issue you raised was the lack of profile information for many users. This will change too as we are starting to encourage more users to fill out a brief profile.
Even with the improvements we have yet to make, people seem to still be enjoying the service. We have in the range of 40-50 thousand dates taking place each day.
40,000 speed dates a day is impressive, to the point of wondering if that means conversations that last the entire time or just initiated dates. I’ll have to get related numbers from Woome for comparison.
