The more in-character response from OkCupid would have been to make a new OkTrends blog post that plainly analyzed the data underlying the removal of the original article.

Data Points:

  Dollars Received From match.com | Articles removed
  $0.00 | 0
  $1.00 | 0
  .. | 0
  $50,000,000 | 1

Followed by a witty analysis of how statistically, 50,000,000 influences the on goings of OkCupid.