If you've ever checked out a few singles message boards, you'd understand that the dating mess is not all the dating services' fault. On singles message boards, you can read posts from the kinds of people who mess up the system for everyone else. Sometimes they snipe at each other like a bunch of little kids. But the message I get from them, is that they're saying "yes, I'd like to meet someone... but not if it means having to get rid of my emotional baggage". Glad I'm sticking with an offline local singles club, game players don't last long in those.

That's why I usually stay away from message boards on dating sites and stick to searching for profiles. The only real time I use the forums is if the dating site offers forums about different hobbies or interests. As example , I'll more likely contact a woman who regularly posts in a forum about mountain biking or surfing. These are two things I am interested in. If someone just checks these things as interests in the profile, half the time when I attempt to talk to someone about them, their idea of mountain biking is peddling for 5 minutes to the local coffee shop.

I've yet to see ANYTHING geared toward artistic/creative singles. Maybe the people who run dating services are afraid that might result in too many success stories and hence not enough repeat business. But a friend suggested it as a theme to the offline local singles club I belong to, so in that respect, dating services have missed the boat. As for regular posters to singles boards... they've been playing the game so hard and for so long, they probably wouldn't know what to do even if they did meet their soulmate. How are they supposed to troll someone in real life? :-P