FabSwingers.com forum: New ethnicity search option

By *ohoho OP Woman
over a year ago

Up North

Thank you fab. I can finally search by ethnicity.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thank you fab. I can finally search by ethnicity. "

I just noticed this!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But does it work for both of a couple or just one like the "age" search?

Also,

Most profiles, wont have selected anything - so will take time for it to work through the users to change (if they decide to).

Nice modification though for those that have been requesting it.

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By *ohoho OP Woman
over a year ago

Up North

True. You have to update your profile. I wonder how many will?

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By *irtyAndCh33kyCouple
over a year ago

North Wales

we've just updated ours but it doesn't show on our profile?!

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Damn! Someone missed a trick. Just for comedy value, couldn't they have included Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits and young busty single nymphomaniacs who own a brewery? All the last 4 may be debatable as real or not, but it would make me smile.

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By *wo4moreCouple
over a year ago

around walsall, wolves, cannock

Not sure how it's set up to work, the searches we have done are obviously limited by the amount of people who have updated their profile.

We did a search for white and a search for black. Couples who are mixed show in both searches. Seems a bit redundant unless you a searching for singles?!?

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By *ark CharmerMan
over a year ago

Horsham

"But does it work for both of a couple or just one like the "age" search?

Also,

Most profiles, wont have selected anything - so will take time for it to work through the users to change (if they decide to).

Nice modification though for those that have been requesting it."

Just spotted that, mine already had my Ethnicity pre selected.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just went to change mine. Can't see it on my profile though but I suppose it'll work if someone uses it for their search.

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By *uietlykinkymeWoman
over a year ago

kinky land

Arnt admin going to do a status asking members to update & tell people where it is?

Finally though, so thanks admin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Couples who are mixed show in both searches. Seems a bit redundant unless you a searching for singles?!?"

Thought that would be the case..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I asked for this ages ago, glad it's finally here

Although I think the redundancy will probably apply to the 'Asian' filter lol

Ps. Yes I Indian

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's great! But what we need now is to be able to block messages from those not of the ethnicity we're looking for, like we can block messages from those who don't have photos, verifications or whatever. Personally this would save me such a lot of time explaining to disgruntled or unbelieving white /Asian / mixed guys that I really am only interested in black guys and I'm not racist!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thank you! Now to get people to fill it in!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Great addition

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That's great! But what we need now is to be able to block messages from those not of the ethnicity we're looking for, like we can block messages from those who don't have photos, verifications or whatever. Personally this would save me such a lot of time explaining to disgruntled or unbelieving white /Asian / mixed guys that I really am only interested in black guys and I'm not racist! "

Amen to that..!!

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By *ohoho OP Woman
over a year ago

Up North

"Arnt admin going to do a status asking members to update & tell people where it is?

Finally though, so thanks admin

I hope they do inform everyone. I was expecting it to be in the newsfeed. I do think the more search options the better. X

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By *ohoho OP Woman
over a year ago

Up North

I don't tell anyone why I am not interested. Just that I am not. Saves any hassle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

...guess that's my profile viewing down the pan. Found it by accident and they don't let me save without doing it.

So, put it down as rather not say.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But do you never chat to non-black guys?

I've always felt filters serve their purpose for those just looking for meets - rather than using the more 'social' side of the site such as the forums.

I used to have mine set rigidly - but took them all down after finding the forums and enjoying banter with those I wouldn't want to meet for fun.

Each to their own - and yes, I've set my ethnicity via the new feature. But I guess most people could easily guess the ethnicity of someone via pics. I suppose it will help with searches - but I'd hate to think it resulted in people systematically blocking all those of a particular ethnicity. I suspect however it may!

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By *uietlykinkymeWoman
over a year ago

kinky land

See a forum user filter would be great.

I try and leave my filters off but i just can't cope as all & sundry message then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Damn! Someone missed a trick. Just for comedy value, couldn't they have included Dwarves, Elves, Hobbits and young busty single nymphomaniacs who own a brewery? All the last 4 may be debatable as real or not, but it would make me smile.

pmwl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I dont see this as positive.

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex

Just heard about this and checked for the feature, I noticed 2 things however:

1) My ethnicity already automatically updated on my profile details.

2) how do I search for "people seeking xyz"

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex

"I dont see this as positive."

How is people being able to fine tune their searches and filters to match their preferences "not a positive"?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hi Obi, yes I happily have conversations with normal, polite, respectful, intelligent guys, whatever race or colour. But sadly they seem to be the minority

The problem with most of the non black guys who contact me, is either they think they can change my mind (which is about as impossible as a gay guy persuading them to stop being straight!) or they ask nosy or sleezy questions about my sex life, which I don't wish to answer.

Several times I have even been accused of being racist simply because I have a personal preference! It's not nice.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good idea!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know some see this as a negative but I don't. On the contrary. Ethnicity and age are things you cannot change about yourself, so I feel should be filterable.

I am open to all races but feel it is pointless appearing in people's searches if I'm not the ethnicity they're looking for.

Hence this search option gets a "thumbs up" from me.

I do feel it should show on your profile though, otherwise it's only a useful tool for searches.

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By *ohoho OP Woman
over a year ago

Up North

"I know some see this as a negative but I don't. On the contrary. Ethnicity and age are things you cannot change about yourself, so I feel should be filterable.

I am open to all races but feel it is pointless appearing in people's searches if I'm not the ethnicity they're looking for.

Hence this search option gets a "thumbs up" from me.

I do feel it should show on your profile though, otherwise it's only a useful tool for searches.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

well done admin it saves lots of disappointments x

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By *ue care and attentionWoman
over a year ago

birmingham

I've updated my profile but it doesn't show when I check it. Is it working?

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By *hinaManMan
over a year ago

Twickenham

Thanks for including this Admin, is it possible to have something like Oriental/East Asian/Chinese rather than just Asian please? I hope you will agree that someone from India is rather different to someone from China.

People from Japan/China/Korea/Thailand/Vietnam are an entirely different race to those from India/Pakistan/Bangladesh.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im very happy with this new search Oooooh er

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thanks for including this Admin, is it possible to have something like Oriental/East Asian/Chinese rather than just Asian please? I hope you will agree that someone from India is rather different to someone from China.

People from Japan/China/Korea/Thailand/Vietnam are an entirely different race to those from India/Pakistan/Bangladesh. "

Y'all are gonna hafta divvy up the continent or accept you're on the same one..

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By *habsMan
over a year ago

Fortress of Solitude, Middlesex

People from Japan/China/Korea/Thailand/Vietnam are an entirely different race to those from India/Pakistan/Bangladesh. "

I think its perfectly reasonable. If a single girl (on a dating site) wanted to meet an asian man, she'd need some way to specify she was hoping he was more indian than chinese, or vice versa! Same would be useful in this instance.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nice idea.

Just updated ours.

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By *uietlykinkymeWoman
over a year ago

kinky land

How odd. From the forum list it shows admin responded to this 2 hours ago & yet i can't see a response from them

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By *egomanukMan
over a year ago

Manchester

A well needed addition Admin, but will there ever be a way to search by what people are looking for rather than what they are? (Hint, you'll need a checkbox!)

Personally, it's all the same to me, but I'd rather only contact someone who is looking for who / what I am rather than waste everyone's time.

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By *rownguyMan
over a year ago

Walthamstow

Hi,

good idea, but would it be possible to add 'other' as an option? I for one do not fit into any of those categories. I fear setting myself as 'prefer not to say' will limit my search-ability.

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By *laakmandubMan
over a year ago

Maynooth

My profile was preselected as ethnicity black, However,I can't seem to find the ethnicity option when I want to search, is there anything am doing wrong?

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By *heRainManMan
over a year ago

Warrington & Glasgow

"My profile was preselected as ethnicity black, However,I can't seem to find the ethnicity option when I want to search, is there anything am doing wrong? "
On the search page, scroll down and you'll find:

"Smokers:

Interested in:

Ethnicity:"

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By *unseakersCouple
over a year ago

Tropical SW & frozen North

Brill updated and now helps search - hope all update !!! Maybe these things should be mandatory

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By *hinaManMan
over a year ago

Twickenham

"Hi,

good idea, but would it be possible to add 'other' as an option? I for one do not fit into any of those categories. I fear setting myself as 'prefer not to say' will limit my search-ability.

Spot on, there needs to be an "other" option for those that don't fall into the current limited categories.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thumbs up for the new option. It appears on most other sites so why it hasn't appeared here till now is quite odd. Better late than never I guess!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thumbs up from me too, although my new search criteria brought back a handful of hits. Heavy sigh.

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By *ohoho OP Woman
over a year ago

Up North

"Thumbs up from me too, although my new search criteria brought back a handful of hits. Heavy sigh.

That might because everyone hasn't updated their profiles yet.

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By *renchbambi xWoman
over a year ago

Need to know basis

"Thumbs up from me too, although my new search criteria brought back a handful of hits. Heavy sigh.

That might because everyone hasn't updated their profiles yet. "

Although the site owners have added an update that everyone can see, Yohoho is right...it will take time for people to find this new improvement...and maybe not everyone will want to use it. They will of course be excluded from some searches but that is their choice!

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By *j_markCouple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

"Thumbs up from me too, although my new search criteria brought back a handful of hits. Heavy sigh.

What criteria were you using?

Admin x

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By *wo4moreCouple
over a year ago

around walsall, wolves, cannock

This needs tweaking so there is an option to show couples who are both white/black/etc as well as mixed couples as it does now. Also needed (as with the bi search), is an option to search by sex within couples. So that you can search for couples with a black male, couples with an Asian female etc. In relation to the bi search you could then search for couples with bi female and straight male and for straight female with bi male combinations instead of just couples where both are bi as you can now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thumbs up for the new option. It appears on most other sites so why it hasn't appeared here till now is quite odd. Better late than never I guess!

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By *laakmandubMan
over a year ago

Maynooth

The ethnicity search option is not available for the profiles in Ireland. Admin please can you check on this and rectify.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thumbs up from me too, although my new search criteria brought back a handful of hits. Heavy sigh.

What criteria were you using?

Admin x"

Hello. A bit of a delay in my response. It does work very well, but there just aren't many darker gentlemen in this area. But thank you...I did find one or two

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By *andcCouple
over a year ago

London and Cheshire

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By *andcCouple
over a year ago

London and Cheshire

Great..now we can search for all those hunky black guys we seek.

Only issue is that if you haven't read the forum to know this is not an option, then how many will update their profile?

Perhaps, all profiles could be set to, say not up dated, and then when they log in they get a message to ask them to update their profile with their ethnicity. If people don't want to put their ethnicity on their profile perhaps a prefer not to say option could be their too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not a lot of people are using the option eg if u put my area tn38 in there hardly any,yet you put London m19 in it list longer than your arm

So I'm still stuck in my searches

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By *j_markCouple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

"Not a lot of people are using the option eg if u put my area tn38 in there hardly any,yet you put London m19 in it list longer than your arm

So I'm still stuck in my searches "

Probably there aren't many black guys near you whereas there are in London. We populated the ethnicity if a user self-specified in their profile text.

Admin x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not a lot of people are using the option eg if u put my area tn38 in there hardly any,yet you put London m19 in it list longer than your arm

So I'm still stuck in my searches

Probably there aren't many black guys near you whereas there are in London. We populated the ethnicity if a user self-specified in their profile text.

Admin x"

No there isn't many that are on fab anyway,some people do choose not to enter there ethnicity,but I will cope I'm off to london fri

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By *wo4moreCouple
over a year ago

around walsall, wolves, cannock

When will the function be updated so that you can search for individuals... Eg. Couple with black female, couple with black male, couple where both are black etc. At the moment its a bit pants, also it's the same with the bi filter, it's a bit useless only being able to find both bi couples, when is the option coming for searching for couples with bi females or with bi males?

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By *heRainManMan
over a year ago

Warrington & Glasgow

"Only issue is that if you haven't read the forum to know this is not an option, then how many will update their profile?"
When the improved location searching was being set up, Admin added a red banner at login (http://www.fabswingers.com/forum/feedback/61735), to remind people to enter their postcode, could the same not be done for ethnicity?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"True. You have to update your profile. I wonder how many will?"

I updated mine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When will the function be updated so that you can search for individuals... Eg. Couple with black female, couple with black male, couple where both are black etc. At the moment its a bit pants, also it's the same with the bi filter, it's a bit useless only being able to find both bi couples, when is the option coming for searching for couples with bi females or with bi males?"

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