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

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

really feel like i'm getting the hang of this website, got a very positive email today:

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

hahahaha

so bad

suspended account, psychically drained. going to focus on night swimming and reading surrealist novels.

^ good goals imo. i've gotten nothing but "waste of time" and "heartbreak" from this website.

I wouldn't call it a waste of time, as I did get a lot better at asking out women, going on dates, etc. but something about the process just drained all the limerence out of me.

so, reading foam of the daze and the book of monelle.

I have a copy of L'ecume de jour I French! I got told it just doesn't translate well thanks to the wordplay. I wish I could read French :/

In French, Christ, I don't make out with novellas.

My French ex made me buy it after we broke up, but I never read it. I like the idea of reading various translations of a single work though. The Posies translation is called "Frosting on the Beater."

tonight i answered ~350 questions just for fun and omfg okcupid i'm pretty sure i'm not THAT laid back, even if lots of real life people think so too. RECOGNISE THE TURBULENT ANXIETY AND TENSENESS OF MY INNER SELF FFS.

also not entirely cool with being almost as sloppy as i am laid-back.

what else is there to do for fun?

finding your highest matches with a global search is good if you're the fantasy-prone type and you like to travel.

for example I have a couple of 99% matches in Scotland.

ooh that is fun. lots of hippie types from california, new york, and massachusetts, it seems.

ha, if i search for within 25km of my hometown the highest match is 55%. who knows why i moved.

I'm back in my hometown and only one person's over 80%. And she seems like a type-A personality in yoga pants. This whole half of the state consists of hard-charging extraverts in yoga pants tbh.

My top worldwide matches are all scientists who talk about how funny and sarcastic they are in their first paragraph. And I don't have a 99% match in the whooooole world. 98% is my limit, apparently. (I met my 99% match here in the city where I live and there were a lot of very long silences).