Dating

0) Read the user documentation of how to use the dating system

1) Create your dating profile and make / modify your parameters and search criteria

2) Send your profile / ask for advice

2 bis) Help advising others

3) Attach your web page(s) of your profile

4) Review and select new matches

4 bis) Review your trash list to be sure you forgot nothing
4 ter) See again selected profiles to select more closely
4 help) bounce for help in reviews if you have too many new matches to review them all

5) Review their web pages and make your last selection or write to them

User documentation

1-2) Creating and sending your profile


This is where you enter all parameters describing yourself and by which conditions on the others' parameters you want the computer to make the selection for you.

You should enter your profile very carefully before sending it, for the following reason.
This network is made for being able to cope with a very large number of members, where all matching possibilities should be tested, either automatically or by members' reviews of profiles.
The method to do this without wasting any human and computer resources, is to test each pair only once, first by computers according to the parameters and criteria that people entered, then humanly among matches that the computer found possible.
Once your profile will be sent, it will be quickly tested and reviewed by the whole network of servers and their concerned members.
If you made a mistake and wanted to modify your profile then, it would be too late for all the people who already reviewed your profile: if they already eliminated you, why would you require them to review your profile once again ?

With your profile you will include a title, a small describing paragraph and a photo to be displayed for review by the people whose profile and search criteria matches yours. It is very important that the photo you include there is precisely one of your face where you are clearly visible, to make it easy for people who review it to know immediately whether they might be interested or not. If you put a global photo of you instead, either it would take too much space on the matches page and so would disturb the display, or your face would be too small so that it would make it too difficult to figure out how you really look like.

In your parameters you must truthfully answer questions, else your profile may be cancelled from the network.

If you are not sure of whether profile is well made (whether your photo is visible enough or not, or whether your description is okay...), you can "Ask for advice" about either of them, and choose to submit, either your photo, or your profile together with the question you have about it.

If you are willing to advise people with their profiles, you can subscribe to the "Help advising others" section. To do this, you must come under a pseudo, preferably different from the one by which you will choose to appear for your own matches (see below). There you can choose between "Review new men's photos", "Review new women's photos", "Review new men's profiles", "Review new women's profiles", or visiting already made reviews to see how other reviewers did it. The helping comments for each item (profile or photo) forms a public forum attached to it.
Don't forget that anything you write here is public and can be read by others. If you are observed to not help people there in the right way, you may be excluded from the system.
The forum attached to each text or photo will be deleted by the sole decision of the user concerned.

3) Making your web page

In the use of this system you will have to make your personal web page, attached to your profile.
You can start the use of Step 4 before doing it but you will have to it in order to reach Step 5.

The personal web pages involved here are not specific of the dating system, so to make it you must refer to the "personal web pages" module of this network.
As for any other personal web page, you must first choose an existing pseudo of yours, or create a new one just for this purpose. Then you will make a web page attached to this pseudo.
On this web page you are free to put what you want, including, more photos or videos of you, and your real life coordinates and references of other web sites of yours if you want to.

More precisely, you can make two different web pages: the first one for a first approach for those who you will have selected in your Step 4 to pass to Step 5, and the second one restricted for those who you will have given this right. This second web page is optional, as it will be possible to correspond with the person without having made one.

Once you made your personal page(s), you just need to attach them to you profile, by entering their references in that section of your dating board.

4) Review new matches

Before reviewing your new matches of your profile, you can configure the way they will be displayed: you can choose which of the parameters of the people you will see when browsing your list of matches. Other parameters you can still view individually by clicking on their profile, but you cannot anyway view their search criteria by which the computer found you for them.
You cannot visit their web pages either at this step, but you can just make a preselection of the profiles that you find worth considering, and eliminate the others.
For this, you just need to check the boxes in front of the profiles you want to keep, and the others you did not check will automatically go to your trash list, which means that you do not want to do anything with them. The matches you sent to your trash list will not find you in any of their dating lists, and cannot access your dating web page. Only you can give them the possibility to see you again by visiting your trash list and getting their profile out of there. So for all people you are unsure whether they may interest you or not, you need not waste time wondering but you should just select them for the next step. Indeed, the aim of this Step 4 is to review a large number of people and quickly eliminate those that obviously cannot fit, in order to save time for everybody.

To spead up the reviewing of your matches, you have the option to let them appear on two windows alternatively, so that every one is being loaded during the time when you are reviewing the other: after you reviewed one page and click to validate your selection, this page goes to the background for loading the next matches while you can review the other page that has already been loaded.

Statuses of matches

Technically, in each pair of people {x,y} that the automatic selection had found as a possible match, there are two parameters: the status of x for y (that y choosed to give to x), and the status of y for x.
The list of possible statuses is the following:
- Unlisted (N) : never received profile
- Unreviewed (U)
- Trashed (T)
- Selected (S)
- Selected plus (S+)

When you first send your profile, you do not access yet to the others' profile so they are unlisted (N) for you, but you become unreviewed (U) for all those the computers find you match with.

Your matches will appear in the following lists where you can review them, corresponding to steps of the process. For each list, here are the possible pairs of statuses: the other's satus for you / your status for him or her:

4) New matches, contains without visible distinction, except that in fact, it is displayed in the following order of priority:

U/S+
U/S
U/N
U/U

(The status U/U does not usually happen, except in a special circomstance that will be explained below)
For every page of the list of the new matches you view, they wil all change their status for either S or T according to whether you select them or not, when you click to review your next page of matches.

Those you do not select will go without either any visible distinction, to

4bis) Trash

T/N
T/U
T/S
T/S+

From 4) or 4bis), those you select receive from you the status S (while U/N of T/N becomes S/U so your profile appears to them), so that they go to 4ter) or 5):

4ter)

S/U

The review of this list is optional. It gives you the possibility to change each other's status from S to either T or S+.
It is here just if you are ready to spend some more time in your own selection, to save this time for the other person (if you choose T) and possibly help contacting your future mate a bit earlier (if you choose S+)

4 help) If you feel your list of new matches (U/?) is too long for you to review them all, either because you really have too many matches, or because you have stopped searching for a time and you want to start again your search but you have receive many matches meanwhile. In such a case you call for help, which has the effect to transform U/N into U/U, so that the people who sent their file after your last search completion can trash you from their list, and therefore disappear from your own list, or inversely select you to appear first to you.

Last option: if you feel there is a problem with a profile (like: the face is not clearly visible on the photo) then you can publish a message attached to the profile, like in "Ask for advice" functionality, and that the profile reviewers can see.

5) List of twofold selected matches

Here you can see the distinction between
S/S
S/S+
S+/S
S+/S+

You can view the web page of any of them and therefore send them a message (as you do for the author of any web page). You can change their status to any other status among T, S and S+. Concerning those who gave you the status S+  (listed S/S+ or S+/S+) you can view their second web page if they made one.