Side note ... I mentioned yesterday that our calender only showed couples for a distance of 1000 miles from us. And somebody suggested that there were no single guys or girls with hot dates up within 1000 miles of us ... we this morning all of a sudden, all the single guy and girl hot dates show up and wr changed notjing on our profile, so sls must have changed some sort of parameter somewhere.
How was i determined that 50 miles is the minimum acceptable distance? You ever tried to drive 50 miles in the Washington DC area? It would take you all day! The distance settings are not proper, and need to go lower.
We used to filter out the single guys, why isn't that option available now? While we may still want them to view our profile, their hot dates clutter the calendar, so why can't we choose the type of profiles we view hot dates for?
Seems like the new system has less features and improvements instead of more!
Constantcravings, ask the web developer and reread what my posts are about, definitely not the delivery aspect you inquire about. :Smiles back:
Jim, your first sentence of your last post caught my eye and I will entertain one more time, otherwise, you have nothing I desire to read further.
If a couple selects an age and someone is outside of that scope, then if it was a soft or hard rule, don’t you think the poster would have the mental capacity to allow for that judgment “error “? You act as if they shouldn’t be specific and entertain all inquiries. Well, that might as well be rhetorical question anyway....... Plus, use the search function in the menu tab, nobody is complaining, if they do a search it does the same thing. Did you notice the upper age value the lower value in results? Instead we want to boohoo about a moot point.
Anyway......moving along. A hot date is a search for others with an announcement feature.
Have a pleasant day!
~Allen
Adding to that, Allen you state that it is the hot date posters that determine what folks they are looking for. While that is correct at face value what you aren't allowing for is the hot date poster a choice in a case where a couple or single who is a year or two outside the selected age parameters reaches out, presents themselves well, and still has a shot at meeting and playing with someone who, by virtue of posting a hot date, has the desire and time to meet someone. As an example, we have used the hot date area in the past quite often. With the old system we also selected our desired age range or couples/singles preferences. Subsequently we were contacted by folks who fell outside our age parameters, or singles who were well spoken, sexy to us, and also had a desire to meet us. At that point it was our choice whether or not to entertain their advances. We don't need the website to predetermine who can contact us. While we communicated our preferences, it was ultimately up to us who we did and did not play with. The new system deprives users of that flexibility. Or maybe we are missing something? We are adults and can say yes or no to anyone we choose without the need to restrict who views and replies to our posted hot date. Does that make sense?
Allen, one could argue that the new policy is a slippery slope. If the website restricts, either directly or indirectly, who can view a posted hot date based on age or couple/single parameters, whats to stop them from subsequently restricting who can be viewed in the "Whos online" area? Whats to stop the website, either directly or indirectly, from restricting folks from viewing people in their friends list because the desired age range is currently outside the parameters set by the user? As it stands right now, folks can and do contact other folks who are not in the desired age ranges. Some consider it a nuisance, so is the next logical step for the developers is to start to restrict who can actually message a user based on the same algorithms?
We all have the ability to say no, ignore the messages, etc. without the need for the website to predetermine that for its users. Make sense?
I do not like the new hotdate menu user interface (UI) at all, I can’t find events or people anymore, Very Bad choice by SLS and wish they would have given us subscribers a heads up beforehand or at least give us a choice to select the old UI layout or beta test thIs new UI layout. Sloppy work Sls, I will probably not renew my subscription next month.
Allen,
What is the intent with this change?
Never saw or heard any complaints about the old calendar. They are getting so specific on search criteria why not spend the time and energy improving the search engine. We have seen many requests regarding searches. Enlighten us please.
Smiles
I was going to write up a lengthy essay about this as well, but it seems points to bring up have been taken care of in the previous post and just leaving a few things to touch on.
To make things abundantly clear, SLS is not restricting anyone of viewing another's hot date; IT IS the person setting up the hot date that chooses the restrictions, including the age range (whether a soft rule or hard rule) and is the same that chooses to not include others in their search, for the better word, "hide" from those not meeting their age criteria. It is no different than hiding nor different from seeking from certain types of preferences, no matter how "exceptional", as posted earlier, you believe you are. People like what they like and will seek what they feel they want to seek and you cannot condemn the web host for adding those options that would prevent otherwise someone outside of the search criteria from making an unwarranted solicitation.
I would like to believe it is a community kneejerk reaction, yet if you blame anyone for not being able to see criteria that doesn't include them specifically and anyone changing their age to meet someone's search criteria is a problem and speaks an abundance about character. Just like a single not seeing a date looking for a couple, a couple not seeing a date for a single or a female seeking a female and a male not being able to see, age is just one parameter and I am positive other parameters are to come and welcomed and if not, then they should be. This has been a nuisance to others and is one parameter of many that has been asked for by the community members in the past. People have to ask themselves how they would feel if they were seeking one thing, only to have another contact them in hopes they will be the exception; I read it a lot on the forums, so it's not like it doesn't happen.
Now I'm defending SLS, in addition to each individual member that has a preference. Take it how you may.
~Allen
A few last arguments from us about the folks you can no longer see on the hot dates. We have, over the years, met folks at local parties and hit it off and wound up having some great sex with. Those folks turned out to be either below or above our selected age setting, or we were below or above their selected age setting. Regardless, we had fun. With the changes, we can no longer see when the people we have played with previously post hot dates, and will now miss out on another opportunity to connect with folks we have connected with in the past. That doesn't seem right to us.
Secondly, it has been established that people want what they cannot have. Basic human nature backed up by several studies. With the new hot date format there are several postings that we cannot view. This new format is highly likely to cause some level of dissatisfaction in every user due to our nature to want what we cannot have. That dissatisfaction can range from mild, perhaps a disappointment in being unable to view all the hot dates, to extreme, such as folks not wanting to continue to pay for a subscription.
We think it would be wise for the developers to reconsider their algorithms that prohibit folks from viewing all the available hot dates, regardless of age settings. It is one thing if a user has chosen to hide their profile from a specific profile type. It is quite another thing for the website itself to dictate what users can and cannot see. Unless a user chooses to hide their profile from people, why would the developers want to do that for anyone?
Wayne
Take this as a recommended “opportunity for improvement” . . . . Tell “management”:they should schedule a chat room to discuss “improvement” ideas they have with current members before they commit to implement. Listen to the current members, who may collectively have good ideas or reasons to prevent a dumb move. Clearly the vocal current members want email back and the old hotdates back. If you schedule a town meeting such event on chat, all members can participate and, will either confirm the decisions made, or will provide compelling reasons to revert to what was successful. In the chat the techies and marketing gurus can also explain why they are pushing for change..
Just trying to help
Adding another "bug" or concern.
We are travelling way out of town and put up a Hot Date in in the city we are going to. Every time you choose a matching member and hit the back button to go back to the list the city reverts back to your hometown. You then have to onve again change the city.
I am in tech and find it absolutely ridiculous that none of this was worked out in a beta mode using end-users.
Please revert back to the simple calendar with hot dates and events. I understand people have aversion to change but the pushback is certainly warranted.
The new events and hot date format is awful. So much more difficult to navigate, I just don't why you can't leave well enough alone.
This update to the events calendar is terrible. The old calendar was so simple to read and search. Please go back to the simple. Keep it simple.
This update to the events calendar is terrible. The old calendar was so simple to read and search. Please go back to the simple. Keep it simple.
I can’t believe they haven’t closed this thread yet.. It is a Christmas miracle! ??
There are likely some that have gotten a lot of replies from a Hot Date that totally ignored their preferences, such as age. You can certainly circumvent the system by lowering your own age, but if people want to limit responses to a given age range, they should be able to. It's their loss if they miss out on a hot couple that missed their age range by a year or 2.
As for your preferences, just use the Hot Date default age range of 18 - 99 and nobody will be restricted to your Hot Date due to age.
Let me echo what others have said. It's ridiculous that we can't view Hot Dates unless we meet the "age/relationship requirements" of the posters. Why? It doesn't protect anyone's privacy: it would be easy for me to edit my profile and say that we're both straight, or both bi, or 21 years old, and then I'd be able to access the content you're blocking. And, as someone who's posted Hot Dates in the past, I can say: we're receptive to people who lie outside our "age/relationship requirements" if they have other attractive qualities; likewise, there are many who meet our requirements who don't interest us at all. The point is that, if the poster gets replies from those who lie outside the boundaries that you're using to restrict views, the poster can decide what to do with them. I have to admit that I'm completely baffled about what you were trying to accomplish by making this change: can you explain it?
I know this sounds strange but all of a sudden I started to match some of the blocked out listings. Maybe they changed something on the back end, because there was one or two that I was interested in responding to but I hadn't had the chance as of yet. Or simply members have had to change their preferences to thwart SLS's poor update choice.
To answer Wayne from 7 hours ago. Yes. Both of those recommendations would be appreciated. Setting the default age range to our profile age range preference, and using the last distance searched as a default, or at least adding a way to select a default distance.
That would work much better for us.
Still hoping the events and hot dates can be merged again and sorted by distance on a selected date, similar to the previous function. I think with those changes you may get a lot less push back.
Thank you for the replies and the info! PS: Not offended! LOL
To edit hot date:
Delete current and make a new one.
Submit it for review.
~Allen
Hope that was too offensive and seemingly defending to some, as accused........
The easiest way, for now:
Homepage
Scroll down to the bottom
Click on the tab of the type of event you’re interested in
View by dates p/ event (list of hosts is by distance and is by default).
Good luck!
~Allen
Hope that was too offensive and seemingly defending to some, as accused........
I’m also wondering how to edit my hot date. Can’t even look at it on hot date page because we don’t match age and preference LMFAO!!
We are a couple looking for a SM so it won’t allow us to see our own hot date. And it says traveling to Howard WI. Uh no. I live here
How does one edit their own Hot Date??
WTF?? How does one view events??
