So, LJ has a new toy to make users feel self important. You can find users who match your intererst list. I’m not exactly sure what mechanism is used but the description is that each user gets a ‘magic index’ which is a weighting of two factors: the raw number of like interests, and some extra points for sharing uncommon interests.
However, there seems to be a problem. Just because someone is on your list, it doesn’t mean you are on their list. Below is my top 20. I’ve also added where I show up on their list of top 150 and what my magic number is on the rare case that I do show up. Finally, I added the number of people in my top 20 in their top 20.
So my question is not, who matches with me… but who do I match with?
My chart below