TL;DR: Since his company is ignoring questions from reporters about the Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid, I asked the CTO of OkCupid out on Facebook. Reblog this to help me get a date! ;)
Weeks ago, in one of my flurry of meetings about the new Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid I’d written (a free browser script that “red flags” OkCupid profiles based on their own concerning answers to Match Questions), a reporter told me that OkCupid is not responding to questions about it. In case you’re wondering, the tool looks like this:
You can think of the Predator Alert Tool for OkCupid as your own personalized “Nice Guys of OkCupid,” or an early warning system for rape culture. You can learn how to install and use PAT-OKC by following this visual guide.
There’s been a lot of discussion about PAT-OKC across the Internet. Simple searches for “okcupid predator alert” and the like will find you bunches of it, but here’s a sampling of some of the best-of-the-best that I know of:
Many people are rightly asking the simple question, “if OkCupid has these kinds of questions, why the hell aren’t they already set up to trigger red flags?” I think that’s a good question, too. And since I currently happen to be in the same city as OkCupid’s CTO, Tom Quisel, I went to his Facebook profile and asked him out on a date on his wall. Screenshot above.
Tom and I have had drinks together before. And I think I remember promising not to kiss-and-tell, so…*zips lips*.
Think he’ll go out with me again? ;)
Please reblog this to help make sure he knows I’m interested! :D