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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyfLER3Z0-Q

Well, if this changes their model, I'm out. It was only ever a fun thing for me and I am so not interested in the "serious" online dating model of other sites, so fuck that.

oh hi rogermexico, i am the guy who messaged you sometime last year about don b. i still haven't found my copy of forty stories.

i have another date tomorrow night. english student, pretty, seems p chill :)

someone actually wrote me for once
and i feel too lazy to even respond

If he's not into rock climbing and kayaking, why bother.

lol

I'm almost considering signing up again just to make a gag profile and seeing what happens.

Go on, before match.com make everyone pay for the fricking thing.

Also I can send you crepey messages.

I wish Hooz would write my response for me

I always choke on sending a message to someone. It seems like nothing I write will be clever or eyecatching enough.

Dating shouldnt feel like freaking job interviews :|

i always found the initial message v difficult. replying is usually pretty easy.

deleted my profile the other day. whatever purpose it ever served has long since passed

I'm mainly in it for amusement value. The pool of matches is so static I'm beginning to think it's not worth taking seriously, but I'll leave it there.

hey danski! i've been off okc since, like, october due to: dating life was getting way too complicated... but it was super-cool to meet you and if/when i inevitably turn it back on i'm looking forward to meeting more ilxors!

hey trayce and all! sorry my jibe took us sideways. that "ooer" was funny! and trayce, you pretty much can't avoid the west coast so drinks are on me in SF.

Awesome! I'll hold you to that.

Well, if this changes their model, I'm out. It was only ever a fun thing for me and I am so not interested in the "serious" online dating model of other sites, so fuck that.

― Cyclone Yazoo (Trayce), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

absolutely. if we're talking like $4,99 a month or something i might stick around just cause it actually has served me really well, but if they move to some shitty $19.99+ model or whatever fuck that

Oh no way am i paying at all. Heck I've had better luck getting dates from forums, ha.

SO IT BEGINS

let's write songs :)
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Game face, playa.

I havent spotted any ads. Adblock is hiding them maybe?

idk i haven't signed on for a couple days since the buyout

For like a week I have been getting "Sorry, we're having technical difficulties right now. Check back later." when I try to log in - anybody else?

OKC just sent me that email that basically says "hi you're better looking than most people on here so now we'll show you BETTER LOOKING MATCHES!"

Like wtf. Could you not show me these ANYWAY? :|

So they're letting you see the goods they keep in the back of the store, eh?

somewhere someone with a face like an arse is copping the dregs

Yeah, the other response is a bit disheartening to say the least...submit photo, no notification, but suddenly most of the attractive people are gone. So it goes, I guess.

TBH it hasnt changed the results, I am still getting a bunch of dbags and old pervs idgi?

Over the whole damn thing anyway, thnk I'll join a nunnery :(

i don't believe u

I might as well already be in one! *angst*

sorry prob way tmi oh well lol.

So hang on, let me get this right...you put up a photo, OKC assume that you're butt ugly, so only show you profiles of your own kind? What a swizz!

well the way it works is that they initially just show you people with high match percentages, but eventually if enough people rate you highly on quickmatch (4 or 5 stars) which they pretty rightly assume is based on a snap judgment on looks, they'll start giving you other people who are mainly 4-5 star types regardless of match percentage. so you'll start seeing people that might have 30% match with you but have been highly rated a lot.

i have a theory that the whole thing is a lie/social experiment that okc is running to see what effect it has when you tell someone they're more attractive than other people, because that's the kind of thing the people who run okc would do.

I just assume it knows that as an attractive person I want to bone other attractive people but don't really give a shit what they do or think.

I'm pretty well convinced the lie/social experiment theory is correct.

I think the "you are attractive, you can now see all attractive people" letter is sent to everyone on okcupid, or everyone that logged in during the previous month from when you received the letter.

And I think you don't get to see any more people than you normally would see.

and XP to HOOS, I have no idea what quickmatch ratings are. maybe I got the first part wrong about who gets the letter but I assume you still see the same people

Oh yeah as I entioned upthread it hasnt changed my matches at all, I thought it was a bit of a jokey email tbh, I'd be worried if anyone took it rly seriously.

it changed my matches pretty thoroughly tbh, before i was getting all chix w/match percentiles in the 90s of varying levels of hotness, now i pretty uniformly get hotties but will literally see girls in my match queue with 0% match

I was getting 0% cuties before, tho! Those ones were weird tho, it was like ppl whod never filled in the questions hence 0%.

I got an AMAZING match the other week, a really intriguingly weird guy, went to send him a msg and realised he had not logged on since 2008 :( BOOH.

I noticed a big change in my matches but
a) it is showing a 25 mile radius nowadays
b) TONS of new people signed up recently

You know you can set your filters to show varying distances, as well as when ppl logged on last, if theyre single or not, etc...

^^ okc pro talk

I dont know wether to laugh or cry at that observation ;D

real pros do both

heh.

otm

I dont think it gets much smaller than 25 miles tho..? And when you live in LA County 25 miles might as well be planet earth.

Oh rite, I was thinking in the other direction. I have mine set to about 500.