Profiles with no species defaulting to "human"

[wygaella]

Profiles with no species are defaulting to "human" for compatibility purposes, leading to empty profiles, hubs, or ad-posting profiles showing up as a "Great" match.

Is there a way to filter out these profiles using Smart Filters or is this something handled by the client?

[FireUnderTheMountain]

I was looking into this. There's already logic to classify "non-species" species like boytoy, thot, etc. as human-esque - so we're only talking about explicitly blank species.

It's actually a one-line fix to make them not classified as humans, except... the impact is pretty radical! There's a lot of people with fleshed out profiles that don't enter a species because it's obvious from human review that they are. The removal/downgrading of matches puts a lot of potentially high-quality matches into the "No" summary in searches and mouse-over. Yes, I believe that people should fill out their profile completely... But I'm also of the belief that Rising should provide useful features, and matching isn't useful if there's so many good matches being degraded that you have to do an in-depth review of all Maybe's and No's.

More complicated profile-parsing code could sus out some unmarked humans, but there's a high potential for frustrating jank. If someone filled out their age, gender, body type (as "human"), and build but left their species blank - could we say they're human? What if they only filled out their intimates as "human-like" and nothing else? There's a lot of cases that could go either way; leaving it up to the interpretation of whoever codes it gets dicey.

Also, if you find hub profiles you don't want to see ads from, you can right-click their name and choose "hide ads" - it gets rid of that annoyance while still letting you see their normal messages.

I think a smart-filter for blank profiles would make a lot more sense. Blank profiles are a PITA.