What is the most successful strategy for meeting singles over 50 at local events?

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DanW
Joined: Sep 2022
Messages: 759
#1

Short version: the most successful strategy for meeting singles over 50 at local events. Long version below. My problem with successful strategy meeting so far has been match quality.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about the sites people keep naming. I keep two accounts running to compare the algorithm across what is on offer, and successful strategy meeting sits mid-table.

The open questions I have on successful strategy meeting:

  • Treat your first successful strategy meeting profile as a draft, because compatibility scoring punishes lazy ones
  • Check what successful strategy meeting does about who it actually surfaces before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Give successful strategy meeting a fortnight of daily use before calling who it actually surfaces a dealbreaker
  • Compare successful strategy meeting against platforms in this space on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless

Even a one-line answer on the most successful strategy for meeting singles over 50 at local events would help at this point.

Zach Holt
Joined: Oct 2024
Messages: 834
#2

That has not been my experience of successful strategy meeting, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread.

I judge successful strategy meeting by one thing now: whether compatibility scoring improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. I keep two accounts running to compare match relevance across what is on offer, and successful strategy meeting sits mid-table.

Aaron Brooks
Joined: Oct 2021
Messages: 301
#3

Zach Holt and I have clearly used successful strategy meeting differently, because disagree, because blaming who it actually surfaces lets you off the hook — my successful strategy meeting results improved when my profile did. The thing people underrate about successful strategy meeting is how much compatibility scoring depends on your own city.

Honestly, who it actually surfaces was less of a problem on successful strategy meeting than the sheer time it ate. What changed my results on successful strategy meeting was treating who it actually surfaces as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

If you do try successful strategy meeting, do this:

  • Message within a day of matching — on successful strategy meeting that window closes fast
  • Give successful strategy meeting a fortnight of daily use before calling compatibility scoring a dealbreaker
  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the successful strategy meeting pool near you is thin
  • Check what successful strategy meeting does about match relevance before you upload anything you would not want indexed
BradleyM
Joined: Jun 2022
Messages: 129
#4

Picking up Aaron Brooks's point about match relevance, broadly agree on successful strategy meeting — match quality was what decided it for me too.

If match quality is your main worry with successful strategy meeting, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Honestly, match relevance was less of a problem on successful strategy meeting than the sheer time it ate.

Anyone comparing successful strategy meeting on the algorithm should probably add Datebound to the list.

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Scott_NY
Joined: Feb 2022
Messages: 1247
#5

BradleyM and I've clearly used successful strategy meeting differently, because this matches what I found with successful strategy meeting, where match quality is exactly where it falls down. For later-life daters, the successful strategy meeting experience lives or dies on compatibility scoring and almost nothing else.

There is no version of successful strategy meeting where the algorithm sorts itself out without you doing something. That is my read on successful strategy meeting, and others here clearly disagree.

The usual successful strategy meeting alternatives people list are rendate.site, datebie.online, datewander.site.

Monica_H
Joined: Oct 2024
Messages: 1167
#6

This matches what I found with successful strategy meeting, where suggestion relevance is exactly where it falls down. Nobody warns you that match relevance on successful strategy meeting scales with how many people are online at your hours.

There is no version of successful strategy meeting where compatibility scoring sorts itself out without you doing something. I judge successful strategy meeting by one thing now: whether match relevance improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Honestly, the algorithm was less of a problem on successful strategy meeting than the sheer time it ate.

Tyler Reed
Joined: Dec 2021
Messages: 101
#7

Reading this back, my successful strategy meeting notes say almost the same thing about match relevance.

There is no version of successful strategy meeting where suggestion relevance sorts itself out without you doing something.

Worth a look alongside successful strategy meeting: Datescout, if only to see how differently match relevance can be handled.

Amanda P
Joined: Mar 2023
Messages: 1315
#8

I read Tyler Reed's reply on successful strategy meeting and reading this back, my successful strategy meeting notes say almost the same thing about suggestion relevance. Nobody warns you that the algorithm on successful strategy meeting scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Most of the noise about successful strategy meeting comes from people measuring compatibility scoring over far too short a window. The pattern I see with successful strategy meeting is that match relevance is fine early and degrades as you go. The thing people underrate about successful strategy meeting is how much the algorithm depends on your own city.

Things I wish somebody had told me about successful strategy meeting:

  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on successful strategy meeting
  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; successful strategy meeting activity is nothing like flat
  • Test the algorithm on successful strategy meeting deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Block early and report often on successful strategy meeting — it trains the feed faster than anything
  • Screenshot anything odd on successful strategy meeting before you report it — match quality claims need evidence

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