Cross-Country Love: Help Fly NYC Women to SF

Yea, this is a joke, right? Am i missing something? This seems like on of the silliest idea i've heard in a long time. Once you start offering free flights, wouldn't the incentive system immediately switch from finding love to free vacation?

There is a long and amusing history of trying to balance gender ratios with incentives. A fantastic story I read recently was a scheme by two brothers in early 20th century Colorado attempted to entice women by building a school in their remote mountainous areas. Two came to teach, one stayed. Not bad odds? I grew up in the 80s were the only difficulty was getting the boys to dance with you at the local disco when you were 14.

Why not send males over to NYC instead? (rhetorical question) The job market can better support them. Not sure if San Francisco&#x27;s job market can handle more workers as easily.<p>I was born and raised in NYC and all I have to say is that I am glad that I moved to California as a married man. The two cities are not in the same league when it comes to both the quality and quantity of women (with the definition of quality not specified).

It&#x27;s not like flights are that expensive, is it? It&#x27;s the &quot;actually moving across the country&quot; part that people don&#x27;t follow through on. So either this is a crowd-funded one night stand festival, or it&#x27;s a failure.

It&#x27;s really easy to mis-interpret this at a glance. I thought it was literally asking people for money to fly random people to a different city for a date.<p>Instead, they&#x27;re actually selling tickets - the cost includes flight, hotel, and some sort of dating event. (You can also toss in $20 and maybe win a free flight.)<p>I thought that Crowdtilt was more like Kickstarter, but it seems that it&#x27;s just a way to gather money for any arbitrary cause.

This is a smart marketing stunt. It&#x27;s a mutual win because it will generate press for both the platform (CrowdTilt) and the user (The Dating Ring).<p>My hunch is The Dating Ring got the okay from CrowdTilt before launching this campaign, and have an informal agreement in place to delete the campaign after a few days, which will generate further press.

Maybe I&#x27;m a bit childish, but I totally misread the little text that says &quot;Tilts at $10,000&quot;.<p>Yep, I&#x27;m sorry.

Are gender ratios really a problem in SF? I visited SF, and women there said that if one excludes gay men, the ratio of women to men in san francisco tends to be heavier on the women&#x27;s side.<p>Anyone have their own experiences?

It&#x27;s almost like they read this (satire piece) and decided to try to validate the idea... <a href="http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2014/01/the-founder-hounder/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.leveragedsellout.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;the-founder-hounder&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m sure there is some practical reasons (company based in SF, suitable venues, flight schedules, etc) but would it not be better to fly women to SF and men to NY and in equal measure?

The &quot;plane full of women&quot; makes me think of &quot;The Bachelor: Silicon Valley.&quot;

Wow, this is just... really guys? Are women now a commodity we can ship from the other side of the country? What happens when we realize the dating problem in SF is actually more of an issue of misaligned priorities and unmatched interests? Next step, import cheaper, hotter, more malleable women from some poor country?<p>For the record, I&#x27;m a male and I&#x27;m offended. I can&#x27;t even think what any of the many great independent, free-thinking women I&#x27;ve met in San Francisco would think about this.

wouldn&#x27;t a sugar daddy dating site be better suited for that?<p><a href="https://www.seekingarrangement.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.seekingarrangement.com</a>

I&#x27;ll just quote Julia, the founder of Zidisha.<p>&quot;My objection to most handout programs is based on the negative psychological effects I experienced time and again while working with development assistance grants in Africa and Asia. The resources we distributed would certainly result in an economic boost, but they also fundamentally changed the way the recipients saw themselves, and the way we saw them. Handouts caused the recipients to view themselves as dependents whose fortunes were subject to the whims of luck and on pleasing donors, rather than on themselves as drivers of their own lives. When repeated enough, this psychological side effect can be devastating not only for the individual recipient, but for the broader community that has come to depend on the handouts.&quot;