Just when you thought it was safe - OK CUPID PART 3: The Return of the WOO!

If you are seeing someone and it's going well but slow, how to decide whether to take the initiative and sign off OKC?

I am still going on there to read messages only. OK, and to see if he's been on there. He is on there every few days.

God, does this have to be discussed *explicitly* at some point?

i ignored a guy's instant message the other day and got the following 'missed messages' today:

xxxxxx: fook man whats wrong with me :\
xxxxxx: even ugly guys do not respond to me :\

xxxxxx: even vaguely goofy lesbians do not respond to me :\

Im wondering wether I should update my profile to say I am actually single. I'm just worried I'll get even MORE crepes.

who wouldn't want free crepes! sorry

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/okcupid-hiding-hotties-fr_n_614149.html?ref=email_share

It appears that OK Cupid is going to start hiding the hotties from the algorhythmically determined less attractive users!

We are very pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid's most attractive users. The scales recently tipped in your favor, and we thought you'd like to know...

Your new elite status comes with one important privilege:

You will now see more attractive people in your match results.

This new status won't affect your actual match percentages, which are still based purely on your answers and desired match's answers. But the people we recommend will be more attractive. Also! You'll be shown to more attractive people in their match results

I don't think that many people use this site ("attractive" or not)

http://celticrebel.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/g2hbrave2.jpg

ya - wtf!
haven't checked my OKC for a long while - but the title of their latest email certainly got my attention: thermosokcupidname, we have data on your attractiveness

Did anyone not get the email?

um...

I thought everyone got the email

lol if you didn't and it was some computer error or lazy person error

oh shit i didn't get it. confirmed epsilon status ;_;

crisis averted. email received. system works. screw you uglies.

this bullshit underlines why I need to delete my profile. the only thing preventing me is that there is some salvageable stuff in emails I've sent there - I could compose my memoirs from stuff written in emails to girls over the past year

this bullshit underlines why I find OKC hilarious and fun. I really want to know what science project they're up to with this.

I imagine that when told they're attractive people send more messages.

good point - would very much be in tune with their sorts of shenanigans

Argh wtf how do you turn this shitty IM thing in the corner off? I went into my profile and in 2 secs flat some prick messages me "isnt trayce a bit of a bogan name?"

Way to sell yourself, twat.

$10 says it was pato

If it was he's using a fake pic (it shows the profile pic when u msg ppl and I didnt recog whoever it was).

what is - "bogan"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

everything you need to know, and lots you don't

In New Zealand, Waikato University postgraduate student and self professed bogan Dave Snell was awarded nearly $100,000 in 2007 to study the bogan lifestyle. Snell's stance is that enjoyment of heavy metal music is a key element of the bogan lifestyle. Snell explains that bogans express their identity through visible tattoos and clothing choices.[13]

Can we get this guy to post here?

Anyone with the stupendous talent required to get $100,000 to study the bogan lifestyle obv has more lucrative ways to employ his time.

We called 'em booners where I grew up (or "westies" which was the sydney term)

techno/house bogans

There's been times in the past when I've e-mailed (not IMed) girls to point out outrageous things they put in their profile. Like some 4chan type girl wrote that sometimes she gets mistook for being a twelve year old and I asked "are you sure you are not a 12 year old?", and she replied "95% sure". I didn't pursue any further.

were you hoping she actually was not sure?!

No, I wouldn't have ever pursued her. But I impulsively felt the need to tease her for being a dysfunvtional 4chan creep... she deserves for people to think that she is a 12 year old (but she probably only got a kick out of me telling her so... Bleh! those terrible /b/tards)

that's one of those... "the only way to win is not to play" kind of situations

That's one way to reiterate the obvious

Since it came up elsewhere... Myself & the occasionally above-discussed fine young Blake-first-message/Mahler-first-date lady are no more, as of a couple of weeks ago.

I think that I got incredibly lucky to meet someone like that straight away. The first & thus far only date I've ever been on via OKCupid ended up in an at times wonderful 3 month relationship.

I'm pretty certain that its ending was the right thing, but it doesn't stop it being sad, and there are a few doubts in my mind, mainly born of woeful inexperience.

Ah! I sympathise. Was it a distance thing, or were you not compatible in the end?

As said elsewhere, although I've kept my OKC account (purely due to the fact I could easily compile my memoirs from emails exchanged with women over the past year), I am *completely* through with internet dating. Even meeting women with romantic intent from elsewhere on the web is right out. It's been too painful.

It was a question of compatibility for the most part.

Sorry to hear you guys have had bad OKC luck. I'll continue to promote OKC, myself, as I'm now just a few weeks shy of spending half a year with the greatest girl in probably the most stable and happy relationship I've ever had.

I'm very pro OKCupid, I think it's a great site, pretty much regardless of what relationships I do or do not form via it.

trayce he was negging you

Finally manned up and posted a photo, got four visits within 24 hours including one actual message, and it seems like she was repulsed not by the picture, as expected, but by my taste in music. So it goes, I guess.

MALE SLAG

The school boy error of even alluding to meeting in person promptly killed a very promising seeming conversation for me... sad, frustrated face.

I may look like a serial killer, but I certainly don't have the guts to really pull it off. Perhaps I should make this clearer on my profile.

the conversation-killers: John Maus, The Chap, The The. AVOID

but the last 2 of those are brilliant and the first one obscure enough to make conversation about

how can anyone hate the the, like, fuck

how can anyone hate the the, like, fuck

Yeah, that's pretty wtf.

Made a profile a few days ago. Pretty fun distraction so far. Not sure if I'm doing it right.

Still seeing guy from upthread (since early May). All going very well. Talk most days, meeting his friends, met his daughter. But we both left our profiles on the site. I took mine down unilaterally last week and didn't mention it to him. He has not logged on there for ages. Don't want to make a thing of this, but hoping he takes his down soon, or changes to seeking friends only...

how can anyone hate the the, like, fuck

wttf (what the the fuck)

like like the the the fuck

I do, like, like the "the the" fuck

death