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Feedback ยท When searching for profiles interests, order search results to first show those profiles *most into* those interests (in review)

When I'm searching for people into certain interests, my results should prioritise listing the people most interested in those things, then list the people less into them.

Let's put it this way: we could all just go through the unfiltered profile index page by page, but search is supposed to help me find partners more accurately than that. Just filtering out the people with it in "no" doesn't really cut it. (Especially because if I'm searching by, like, 5 interests, I could be happy with one of them being in "no" if the others are very interesting to that person.)

There's some fuzziness here, so let's deal with that. I want to see people with my search terms in core and mandatory on the first pages (either's equal, they'll be strongly into it either way). After that, I want to see people strongly into most of them, ranked down to people strongly into fewer of them. (Preferably most of the other stuff should be in "yes", "will try" is acceptable, "no" is only passable if it's a small % of what I'm searching for and they're very into the rest.) This is sort of like if search was ordered by a compatibility % against the interests I supply.

This suggestion totally depends on having pagination in search or we're just going to get the same 20 people over and over. (No pagination in search sucks anyway and is one of the top roadmap items, and I imagine that'll happen before this.)

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created: 24 December 15 at 04:45 PM (build: 10/1/2015 4:20 PM beta)

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

To me, this only has predictable behavior if you only have one interest set in the search. If you search for, say, 5 things, then what are the results? Someone who has all 5 in mandatory first? What about someone who has 4 in mandatory, but only 1 in will try? Does he come before the person who has all 5 in yes?

Samus

I would want the instances you've just listed to occur in that order: someone with all 5 in mandatory/core (they're totally about what you're looking for in a partner), then someone with 4 in mandatory/core and 1 in willing (they're still mostly totally about it, and willing about the rest), and then a person with all 5 in yes (they're willing but they're not about it).

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Hmm. Sounds a little expensive computationally and I'm not really sure that would encourage the correct things (e.g someone just dumping everything into the higher lists so they return higher). I more like the idea of being explicit about which list you'd want these people to have it in, so that the use case you are talking about can be covered clearly, then the more general use case of just find someone who will play this can be maintained with the current functionality.

Samus

I would probably dump a couple of extra things into core that are right now only in my yes list, because I'll have actual motivation to do that, but I'm not about to put something like diapers into core — I wouldn't want to increase my searchability for that at all, or turn up for people looking for that. I imagine other people might do similar, but not simply load everything they can into core.

Samus

I'll note that either suggestion would provide strong motivation for people to move things they want to be searchable by into core. This one less so though, because things not in core will still count (just less strongly).

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