Recently, PlentyofFish launched a replacement to it’s chemistry test. The new chemistry matches are the top 30 people you are most likely to enter into a relationship from on the site. My matches are people that we think you could date, which could be thousands of matches. “My matches” is based on your behavoir, ie you message only smokers you see only smokers.
Based on a few emails back and forth with POF it looks like the feature is based on the existing chemistry test questions all new members are required to complete, along with information from profile fields and some other datapoints. The POF chemistry test is 48 questions and profile questions number around 10.
I like how direct POF is about the new feature. “Users you are most likely to marry. If you date someone on this list the chances of breaking up are dramatically reduced.”
Judging by this photo, POF is also crowd-sourcing the management of people’s photos. The feature is called “Rate Other User Images” but what you’re really doing is flagging photos that need attention. I was expecting to be able to rate say on a scale of 1-5 and then see a leaderboard of the highest-voted photos, preferably in my search area. They keep sending me photos of guys, a sure-fire way to get me to ignore the feature.
