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Either too few people are on Lunch or most, in taste, are middle-America
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Feb 17, 2010
- by StayPositive
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Despite the hype, the Similarity Network returns really low results. For example there are only two people above 40% similarity for my tastes.
-3
As I have entered the maximum number of choices in the set-up to give the most accurate profile, it seems Lunch is extremely bland. And/or bad.
For example, why would Desperate Housewives show up as a similarity choice with someone when I have it at -5 as a NO GO choice.
The algorithms under the bonnet at Lunch must be very poor.
Last.FM and Pandora are excellent at detecting similarities, providing hundreds of hours of listening pleasure.
Lunch has not provided a single interesting book or movie as a possibility for my interest.
Very disappointing.
PS - the Tags option often fails.
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The Similarity Network gets refined over time, and personally, after just a couple weeks of contributing and interacting on the site, the person with the highest similarity to me was in the 90'ish% range. Now after having been on the site longer, the person with the highest similarity to me is 97% and all the top 50 people who have been matched up in my network I would say is pretty accurate. There are over 300 people in my Similarity Network.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us, and I hope you do give Lunch another chance! Oh, and Stay Positive ;)
you are very right, that as Lunch grows you similarity network will continue to improve. Now that you've laid the foundational opinions, as new people join Lunch your similarity network will continue to improve as will the content that you'll find. We built Lunch to function best with millions of users so it will only go up from here... and i hope your rating Lunch does as well ;)
a couple other things to improve your experience here... fill out your profile including a pic. it makes the community more receptive to your opinions because you look like a real person rather than a fly bye. Also, share some comments, write some more reviews and interact with Lunch members more... all of that stuff goes into the sim network algorithm and will help you get the most out of Lunch. If this is your only review, then your Lunch similarity network might skew toward other people who also dislike Lunch... hmmmmm... irony. also, i love your member name btw.