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I've seen several dating sites that give you the option to only show profiles with a picture. However, I've never seen a dating site that gives you the option of only showing profiles that contain more than say 2 sentences. I think that would have been far more useful.

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Absolutely, I actually don't send messages to anyone who hasn't filled in their profile, a nice looking picture tells me nothing about them as a person.

A nice looking picture with no profile text tells me a lot.

It tells me that the profile is either fake or that the person is only there to boost their own ego by receiving messages.

Either way, it tells me that there's no point of sending them a message!

There's a good episode from the Start Up podcast about a company that tried to not have pictures.

I'm pretty sure it was this episode https://gimletmedia.com/episode/profiled-season-2-6/

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