Funny you mention dating.reddit -- I distinctly remember PG bringing it up during one of our chats. At the time, it seemed rather laughable, particularly because we were still so small.
I've been pushing for a basic bio for a long time now (it's somewhere on the features todo list) but something like <200 characters and some basic markdown for linking to blogs/projects. Force users to be creative and avoid the laundry list of "movies I like" most proper social networking sites suffer from.
To that point, we've always consciously avoided reproducing elements found on social networking sites because we weren't building a social networking site.
However, helping a few redditors meet up, fall in love, and make babies (or adopt them) would bring more geeks into the world, which wouldn't be a terrible thing...
I've been pushing for a basic bio for a long time now (it's somewhere on the features todo list) but something like <200 characters and some basic markdown for linking to blogs/projects. Force users to be creative and avoid the laundry list of "movies I like" most proper social networking sites suffer from.
To that point, we've always consciously avoided reproducing elements found on social networking sites because we weren't building a social networking site.
However, helping a few redditors meet up, fall in love, and make babies (or adopt them) would bring more geeks into the world, which wouldn't be a terrible thing...