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Vegetarians looking online for lovers who have the same dietary preferences as they do were misled by dating site VeggieDates.com, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled today. The ASA has demanded that the homepage of VeggieDates be changed to reflect the fact that most of its members were neither vegetarian nor vegan. …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    database fields.

    You're all making the mistake of assuming that the person's attributes are stored in a thing-per-field basis. An alternative is to wrap up all that stuff into a single serialized field called "attributes" or something. It's an approach taken by a well-known wordpress plugin, and yes, it makes it essentially impossible to do a sensible search for "products that weigh more than 2 kilos" or similar.

  2. AlgernonFlowers4
    Paris Hilton

    Deadeye Dick!

    Sing along now - "She don't eat meat but she sure like the bone"

  3. Dug Stokes
    Alert

    All these people claiming that it's so easy to add in this filter in the SQL are right - but missing the point.

    That'd severely decrease the number of profiles on the site; less profiles, so it's less popular, meaning less people will visit or come back.

    This is no different from 'dating sites' which steal profiles/pictures from other sites, often with fake info. A quick google for "Dating site stole my picture" (without quotes) reveals this happens a lot. I'm sure all these companies claim these are real users stealing others' info; I think we can all safely assume this isn't always the case.

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