My pet theory is that to meet great people (dates or not), you need to apply an "antifragile" approach. Basically, lower the cost of an interaction (which is meeting face to face not messaging for days) and meet many.

From this perspective, dating websites (and this one especially) are just horrendous. They have a very high price for each interaction: women waste time reading many messages, men waste time sending many messages.

I am betting that a couple of days talking to random strangers on the street gives you more results than months spent on these sites.