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

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

at this point I'm just like

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9627011/photos/seinfeld.gif

You left a dating website cos ppl are ppl?

hah well also everybody's profile was starting to look really same-y

Homo II your response to that loser was AMAZING. Kudos to you, girl.

Haha someone just starred/"chose" me and I got an email about it and I wrote him back half trying to talk him out of it (he is a vegetarian non-smoker, are you sure you want to go down this road, etc). I mean, nicely. And I called him cute. But I am not taking shit about Budweiser later on if I was up front about it now.

otm, start as you mean to go on.

My last OKC date tried to dissuade me from drinking Bud because of the company's business practices. Look, I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday, brah.

As a vegetarian non-smoker, I attract carnivorous smokers like damn. And that guy harassing HomoII is why I basically never message anyone ever. About to meet a lady from OKC who it turns out works about 500 feet from my apartment. Plus: lunchtime trysts Minus: awkward looks on the way home from work every day for the next five years. PLUS WINS

Let me rephrase that, I am drunk. Most of the women I end up meeting for dates and such are carnivorous smokers.

just disabled my account

homo II, don't leave, you have allot to offer

homo ii: avenging angel

dayo, that table made me a sad, sad man

lol yeah - i mean its not that big a drop but on a site where people reject other people for the most arbitrary reasons it just makes everything seem that much more of an uphill climb than it already is

like im sure there are plenty of nonwhite dudes who do find ~love~ on that site, its just more bullshit than im willing to put up with rite now

the most important advice I could possibly give, based on my fairly extensive experiences, is that meeting quickly is the best thing you can do, and getting stuck into lengthy email exchanges the worst, even though it will not seem so at the time

this is such excellent advice it should be repeated

Guy I gave friendly warning to has not replied. Okay!

or he's still working on a giant diatribe

Vegetarians. What can you do.

I disabled because I seriously hardly ever encountered a single person on that site who caught my interest, and when I did and messaged said person never received a response... and plus I am already dating a few people and up to my eyeballs in boy problems, so why create more right now.

he has to pause between paragraphs to let the iron build back up in his blood

would use dating site called "boy problems"

I may look classy, and act classy, but I am actually a queer kinky freak, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.

<333333333333333333333333333333333333333 *dead*

always mildly confused when a person i know irl visits my profile--"did she look cause she's curious or interested? did she intend for me to know she saw?"--and doubly so when okc sends me an email that says "[YOUR IRL FRIEND] is checkin you out RIGHT NOW! you're compatible, go look at her"

lol this is the best, especially when you awkwardly break the silence

a girl i dated in 2002 gets recommended to me on there all the time as a high match

Is there a general guideline for first messages? I know I can be doing very well once the barrier is broken but I can't, for the life of me, send a confident first message.

All I can say for what gets me to reply is, address the persons profile! If youre messaging someone because of things in their profile you like or have in common, say so! I sometimes get messages even from reasonably cute guys that dont have any indication they care less who I am. "you're a spunk!" was one recent one. Um. thanks!? But do you actually have any interest in who I am as a person that aside or did you txt "youre a spunk!" to 87675 Melbourne OKCer girls?

But that said, even then sometimes I wont reply if:
- theyre spectacularly unattractive (and believe me, I am NOT fussy, but oh lord ugh)
- the match is below about 75%.
- they have any massive dealbreakers in their profile (want kids, is the main one, tho Ive not let that stop me once or twice)

Well I'm glad because that's what I've been doing! I guess since girls get so many messages, most of the time, I am just getting lost in a pile.

lol i have definitely attracted more interest since switching from 'a little extra' to 'average'

Maybe some girls get many messages... I sure dont :(

oh hush

there seems to be no shortage of t demand iirc

so if a lady visits your profile two or three times, but doesn't message you, is that a sign you should message her? or is this 21st century lovelorn apophenia.

if the visits are close together, i would say yes

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/online-dating-advice-exactly-what-to-say-in-a-first-message/

how is 'zombie' at all specific to anyone under 45 these days

i'm guessing "zombie" is used the way "Star Wars" is in 30 Rock

This can only lead to min-maxing of OKC profiles.

that would be pretty hilarious if it did! but i'm guessing a low % of OKC users read the metric blogs

I read the blog but don't use OKC so maybe it balances out.

no metrics on 'juggalo', no cred.

I'm pleased to see "ur" "u" "wat" etc resulting in very low/bad reply rates. No one deserves a date typing like a 12 year old. And it is astonishing how often I'll get a message like "ur hot" or "hay u pretty wanna chat?" I mean ffs guys, just type "A/S/L?" and be done with it, eh?

(actually that'd possbily merit a response because it'd be obvious it was a joke)

yeah, A/S/L is too longform these days

http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/how_to_get_replies_2/efface-chart.png

haha

Gonna craft a message using all of these terms, guaranteed success.

They should run the stats on that, I bet actually your results go down the more you combine those and come off as a tracks-covering wishy-washer.

SEO Cupid

was kinda horrified at that section actually. must be more non-threatening...

All the messages I've replied to make reference to & usually expand on something in my profile. Paying a compliment can be nice, too, but don't overdo it. xpost

is "you should message me if: you're a feminist" too much of a double-edged sword?

good q