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

next better date only works within reason, anyway

it's like traveling on the interstate highway system, thinking "oh, I'm not too hungry yet, I'll wait until the next city" and that place ends up being two hours away due to a traffic jam and all they have that's still open is applebees

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

The problem has a strikingly elegant solution.

ok i'm sold. how do i figure out what e, the base of the natural logarithm, is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)

Glad they went on to talk about the unknown quantity problem, as that was a glaringly obvious flaw in the 'strikingly elegant' solution.

^^ knows her stuff

man, that's filthy. 'n rankable applicants'

keepin on trollin

http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/sympathy-for-the-nice-guys-of-okcupid/266929/

I thought The Atlantic was supposed to be, like, SMART? Why are they publishing non-articles?

atlantic has a long history of trolling on anything involving feminism/gender

Their web presence is pretty much standard blogroll click bait now

I am suddenly a hot commodity on OkC, but seemingly okay dudes! And right when I am in the throes of a very dramatic affair. Interesting.

pvmic!

indeed

http://i.imgur.com/Zp0Lt.png

loll

Aw someone called me "scoopable."

He lives in Seattle.

scoopable in seattle

shit, I meant to type scoopless in seattle

Nice try tho

one day

looks like you just got ... scooped

*puts on sunglasses*

holds out ice cream scoop

would scoop

Just call me scoop jackson (rip)

Ha, the most compatible woman I've seen in weeks and she smokes cigars and owns a gun. OKC is clearly mocking me.

i think that seattle guy wants to 'scoop and score' i.e. have intercrosse with you

xpost

Had date with a comedian last night. It was mostly excruciating - comedo-persona ordered drinks, told me about his career, etc. - but when he lapsed out of comedo-man, I learnt all this really interesting stuff about Canadian politics and the unions! However, NO.

Uuugh. I think that might be an anomaly, fwiw. I can't imagine anyone I personally know in the comedy community endeavouring to act like anything but a human being on a first date. Or maybe I'm just really lucky to know mostly unbroken (relatively unbroken, let's be straight) people in the comedy community.

He wasn't being his 'stage' persona, I don't think, but he was playing up the 'I'm THIS sort of EXTROVERTED PERSON who is ANIMATED, DO YOU SEE???' type... deal... I certainly won't judge a whole community based on 3 hours with an individual! Anyway, when he quit all that, he was very intelligent and interesting to listen to. He just didn't quit it often enough.

And that is why no theater people.

comedo-persona ordered drinks

oh my god i am so sorry

no churchfaces, no theater people, no one who is disturbingly enthusiastic

the more i hear about ok cupid the more i think it is just sociopath training

sorry everybody

except not really

basically i think you're describing the internet.

or that portion of it populated by young people. young people are terrible! i'm ashamed that i was one.

sociopath in seatt.... nevermind.

churchfaces?

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09282009

If you rate someone what exactly are you rating? Their looks? Their profile? I really need a primer on OKC, sometimes I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

ICE CREAM SUNDAE. NOT SUNDAY. JESUS CHRIST.

I can't go out with these people. I just can't.

:D

If you rate someone what exactly are you rating? Their looks? Their profile?

Generally speaking, I think the stars are just there for you to utilize as you will. However, users can receive a notification if you give them four or five stars. However however, this is an optional feature so maybe hardly anyone receives those notifications. Who can say?

I get them.

It's optional? I didn't realize that. Sometimes I get them but they're never from anyone good.

when you first sign up one of the hoops you have to jump through is to rate a certain number of people I think? to get 100% completion

I rate people when I like their profile but can't think of anything to say (like maybe they're one of those people who only puts one word or one sentence responses)

also I think OKCupid tiers or used to tier their users - if your average star rating was in the top 50% of OKC's population, then you would be shown more attractive users (i.e. users who were also had a higher starred rating)