HELP
Entering Information on Matchees
Affecting the Number of Notifications You Get
Matching scores and Relationship Quality
Can I be a matchmaker and a matchee?
There are basically two steps to follow in using matchthem. People who seek to fix up their friends, relatives, colleagues or acquaintances should (1) enter brief profiles on those they seek to match, via step one in the home page, or, if you’re signed in, via the Matchees and Matchmakers button (top of page) > My Matchees tab > Add Matchee link. They may also (2) invite others they know to do the same thing, either via step two on the home page, or via the Matchees and Matchmakers button > My Matchmakers tab > Invite Matchmakers link.
“Matchmakers” refers to anyone who may want to fix up someone they know, and “matchees” refers to those people matchmakers would like to fix up.
“Degrees of separation” refers to the number of people that separate you from another person. For example, you are one degree of separation from your brother, or from your friend. You are two degrees of separation from your friend’s dentist. Your are three degrees of separation from your friend’s dentist’s sister.
Entering Information on Matchees
The best matches will be made if you give accurate, objective assessments of your matchees when you fill out their profiles. NO ONE INCLUDING, YOUR MATCHEES, will ever see any of this information you provide, except for age, gender, and city of residence. And even then, only their nickname will be used (in some cases, matchmakers can see first name and last initial to help them recognize matches they already know). Nicknames should make the matchees identifiable only to you, the matchmaker. It is one of the shortcomings of other online dating sites that singles are forced to input their own descriptive information, because it is often hard for them to be objective. Their profile questionnaires also happen to be very lengthy and laborious, with what many agree are extraneous questions.
If you don’t know an answer precisely, do your best to estimate one. The answers can never be a perfect reflection of your matchee – the idea is to get a reasonably accurate reflection of them and what might be especially important to them in a date (or mate), and then let them decide when they meet their matches. Select any answers you think reasonably apply, and choose the corresponding importance to your matchee.
Affecting the Number of Notifications You Get
When matchthem finds a match for one of your matchees, you may be notified that a match is made. We allow you to indirectly control frequency of notification, because otherwise you may get more notifications than you would like. You can control this in the first section of each matchee profile you enter (click the link “advanced options”), via Minimum Match Score, Minimum Reverse Match Score, Minimum Relationship Quality Score, and Minimum Degrees of Separation. For each matchee you enter, you may change these from the default settings.
Match Scores and Relationship Quality
Match Scores range from 0 to 100. Higher scores require your matchees’ requirements to be closely met to make a match. Reverse Match Scores range from 0 to 100. Higher scores require that your matchees’ closely match other matchees to make a match. Relationship Scores range from 0 to 100. The higher this number is, the more it is required that matches result among good friends / relationships, as determined by selections made when visiting matchmakers and adding matchees. This is done via a pair of dropdowns; the first simply describes the relationship (e.g., “relative”, and the second quantifies how close you are to the person. This information is used to improve the matches, and will never be revealed to anyone. So the more accurate and objective you are, the better.
Can I be a match and a matchee?
Yes. When someone registers at matchthem.com, they are presumed to be a matchmaker, and the default view is set to the “matchmaker view” which shows information pertinent to matchmakers. When someone is invited as a matchee, they default to the matchee view. One can be a matchmaker and a matchee under the same login, and change the view via My Account > Switch View.
In the Matchmaker View, you'll be able to access matchmaker functions such as the ability to invite other matchmakers, and to enter matchee profiles. In the Matchee View, you'll be able to access matchee functions such as viewing people that we've matched you with, and information about the extended network of people you’re in.
Your network on matchthem.com is comprised of your matchees (those you want to fix up), matchmakers you’ve invited, and the matchees of those matchmakers, as far out as all that may go. There is no limit to how large your network can be, and it can be as small as a single matchee or matchmaker.
When a matchee’s free credits are used up, he or she must buy more in order to be able to accept new matches. Matchthem.com offers various plans at different price levels, depending on how may credits are purchased. Each purchase is good for one match. Matchees can choose to pay for one match at a time. These credits are very inexpensive, especially when compared to the monthly plans of the larger dating sites. Matchthem generally offers one free credit for matches to start with.