What If CS Was Mine

When a business changes hands, there are always some changes, no matter how smoothly the business runs. Some are for the better and some are for the worse.

CS seems to be running on all cylinders. It has a lot of features not found at other sites, but we all have our own ideas about a perfect dating site. So what would I change if I had to run CS?

Well, I certainly won’t take anything away – that’s for sure, but I would add a few things.

I would start by giving each member a wall to write on; only to be active while he is on line. Where a member can make statements and others can comment thereon. Say only 30 lines of preserved text; scrolling off to the top with no recall, advertised in a list; as with the blogs presently. Where he can say: “Hello everybody!” or “I’m going to sleep now.”

I would give the owner of a poll (or forum) the option to determine an expiry date; upon which the poll could be restarted or discontinued, with the option of shelving it for viewing only. As times and circumstances change, a poll becomes obsolete. For example, there is no point in voting for president after the election. Better to start a new poll to ‘feel’ the sentiment about the results, running for two weeks before shelving.

How about a forum that deactivates in the ‘off season’? Like a forum about ‘Christmas shopping’ only running during 1 to 25 December; every year until deactivated.

What about a poll for Irish Women only? I would give the owner of the poll the option to choose the participants by selecting gender, nationality, continent and religion. And the option to apply this on poll takers only or commenters as well. Regions like Scandinavia, Far East, Southern Africa etc is another possibility.

So as you can see, not many changes at all. CS is already a great site!