I have a friend who’s trying to meet some professory older types in her area,* and I happen to suspect that we have that sort here. Would I be allowed to create a thread to help her maybe find some people here?
No.
Threads specifically to find dates – whether for one person, or a general thread in which anyone who’s on the market might join in – have been closed in the past and will be closed in the future. We are not a dating site.
Of course, if your friend wants to join as a regular poster, she may well find friends/beaux/dates here as well – there have been a lot of Doper couples over the years, with relationships lasting anywhere from overnight to marriage-and-kids.
That is what I thought. I didn’t quite see where such a thing fell in the user agreement, so I figured I’d ask. Feel free to close the thread.
Yeah, I’m not 100% clear what rule was cited the last time this came up, either. ('Twas before my ascension to modhood.) I was looking at the registration agreement when FF crashed on me as I was writing the first version of my answer, and my guess is that it’s based on the big catchall paragraph:
I’ll go ahead and close this thread, per your request.
SDMB registration agreement as of 12/29/2008
“Do not start threads expressly for the purpose of meeting other posters for romantic or sexual purposes.”