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

what the hell is a "wet guy"?

No Doc, no.

gah, I'm mookie's age, waiting to receive my invitation to the Sunset Matchmaking Home

maybe i'll pay in bitcoins

i have a serious crush. we're talking a lot. i'm afraid that they post/lurk here. certain words/phrases i can't use, lest they recognize.

they're just so incredibly smart and cool. i wanna date this person, BAD. i'm basically convinced this person is a bone-fide genius. it turns me on. plus, they're cute. it's been made clear to me that they feel like things need to move SLOWLY. so frustrating. it's A2. everyone else moves fast. they might be worth the wait, though.

"they" = you have a crush on banaka?

i don't know if i'm being paranoid or what but i've started to notice that when going through "quick match" and opting to "skip" people the people i skip visit my profile within a day after doing so-- often within minutes.

these are people who's profile i never actually visited and they dont show up in my "You recently visited" area

maybe skipping someone throws you on to their quick match queue somehow? weird.

there's a lot of behind the scenes math to this thing that really weirds me out.

occasionally i'll run across a profile in the 'similar' column that is a high match to me but never, ever came up in a direct search. it's rare but it's happened.

plus i know there's some kind of sorting by 'attractiveness' that's supposed to happen but god knows how that's measured or what they're doing exactly.

i judge

measured by quickmatch iirc

now a *third* really promising set of pre-meet interactions--a couple long messages & plans made, casual but increasingly excited texting--wind up with a last-minute cancellation on account of outrageous events. are people googling me at the last minute and getting some other scary hoos or what

ilxing u

am i gonna have to remind you you're Buddhist on every g-d thread

― imago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 22:22 (Yesterday)

http://i.imgur.com/2ZEX87W.jpg

i removed two of my photos when i realized they could be reverse-image-searched to find more info on me than i'd care to share w/ all of OKC

make sure you strip that GPS data too

there's a lot of behind the scenes math to this thing that really weirds me out.

occasionally i'll run across a profile in the 'similar' column that is a high match to me but never, ever came up in a direct search. it's rare but it's happened.

plus i know there's some kind of sorting by 'attractiveness' that's supposed to happen but god knows how that's measured or what they're doing exactly.

i think part of it depends on who you interact with (including who views you), and how. i had two profiles because i forgot the info for one, but accidentally logged myself back in to the old one, and the profiles i was shown were way better! and this was two accounts on which i had barely done any 'profile work'.

i recently deleted all my answers and started re-answering all the questions

its a pain in the ass but i started getting better matches and i like what my little "personality" bar chart looks like way better now

I've done shameless re-answering/personality hacking to make myself sound like less of a complete weirdo

I mean, I don't lie, but some questions are just better left unanswered

that's why you answer them privately though right?

pffff lies are the key to SUCCESS

Yeah but if you answer them privately they still affect your personality bars, don't they?

what does it mean when you get the emails saying that someone is checking you out? I had figured it was pretty meaningless since it probably included people who clicked onto my profile and quickly clicked off IN DISGUST, but the last two I've had I've then received a message from the person immediately afterwards, so I figure it's something a bit more than that.

I think you get those when you're anon browsing, but they regard the person as a high match. Which baffles me cos they never are that high a match (I dont regard 80% as that high) when I get em.

occasionally i'll run across a profile in the 'similar' column that is a high match to me but never, ever came up in a direct search.

I *know* this happens. N my housemate/ex and I are 99% match and 90% friends or something, and he doesnt come up even remotely in my match listings.

obligatory o rly

i removed two of my photos when i realized they could be reverse-image-searched to find more info on me than i'd care to share w/ all of OKC

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dam thats real

you shoosh mookie

hahaha one of my OKC pictures reverse-image searches back to a wdyll thread, except i already deleted that pic from the wdyll thread

thats... a bit scary

Your search - "australians looking over the top of their glasses" - did not match any image results.

i guess i just outed myself as using a three year old picture ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

what does it mean when you get the emails saying that someone is checking you out? I had figured it was pretty meaningless since it probably included people who clicked onto my profile and quickly clicked off IN DISGUST, but the last two I've had I've then received a message from the person immediately afterwards, so I figure it's something a bit more than that.

― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:10 PM (Yesterday)

i have come to the conclusion that you get those:

a) if someone has spent more than a few seconds on your page, has clicked through the questions/photos/personality tabs etc
b) when no one's visited your profile in over a day in order to be all "hey! dont forget that OKC exists-- a real person actually clicked on your profile!"

or a combination of the two

ok wtf i'm gonna do this: goole's rules for answering qns on okc. sorry if this is all p obvious!

1. basics: pretty much, try not to! only answer questions that will reveal your own red lines. so, basic stuff about politics, general values, and so on. This is the basic 'sort'. answer the questions that really do mean something to you, don't throw shit out there that's doesn't. if you have to come up with an opinion on the subject, and you don't care what a potential date thinks either, then don't even answer. maybe somebody has extreme opinions on shakespeare vs mozart, but you don't, so don't throw off the math.

2. gimmes: a bunch of the questions are really similar (there are near-repeats on topics like guns, prayer, homosexuality, contraception, etc) so make sure to answer all of those and rate them highly -- you'll look even more like the people you are close to. the basic trivia-about-life stuff go here too (like grade school science qns). those are an easy +% to non-idiots.

3. sex: consider not saying much about sex at all. so many of these qns are badly worded, and don't have answers that won't (to someone) look creepy, or virginal, or bragging, or skanky, or clueless, or whatever. answer these only if the answer both makes you look more fun, shows some sense of your sexual values rather than sexual experiences, and/or the answer is impt. for you to see. otherwise, don't! UNLESS you have some kink that's really core to what you're looking for. maybe i'm old fashioned but idk knowing someone's opinions on anal before we even meet is a bit much.

4. harsh shit: if you DO have strong preferences about people that are a little impolite (stuff about money, education, body type, height, age, kids, etc) consider just keeping that to yourself. you don't have to advertise everything. you want the profile to look inviting, not judgmental and demanding. somebody who DOES fit your criteria might think you're an asshole. (this is a little different for women who get so much more attention in a bad way)

5. numbers: answer somewhere around 150 and not more than 200. you want a number that's meaningful but doesn't look like you're on the site 24/7 clicking away. boring!

(this comes from my own short exp, women friends who use the site a lot and gave me a bunch of advice, and the okc blog iirc)

In re censoring yr answers, whats the point long run

Thats accepting that you must agree with someone on x issue in order to successfully date, which btw no imo

but deception is the key

i struggled to have opinions on a lot of the questions, had to force myself to care more than i really did. do think there are certain questions that are gonna be pretty telling "Do you really love Jesus?", "Do you like men?", that kind thing.

I hate the petty math-y ones with a vengeance, fuck you if you think this school test shit matters.

not if you're hot for nerds, bro

dude i am hot for nerds but i'm really unhot for people who get all superior about their perceived intelligence so i'm in a bind

now i actually want to see these math questions to see if they're legitimate filters

my observation to men on answering those questions: if you answer "yes" to a question that's worded "Are women OBLIGATED to shave their legs?" you sound like a psychopath. that's basically all i remember about OKC, scanning a dude's profile for his answer to that question and acting accordingly.

the ones i've seen are logic problems, half the time i can't be arsed taking the 30 seconds to work them out

obligated by whom, exactly? i am obsessed with that question. it lived in someone's mind.

but there are a lot of men who would say "yes" who aren't psychopaths, merely sexist jerks

tomayto tomahto

the very best interpretation you could put on somebody answering that question "yes" is that they don't read so good

I think the nerd IQ questions are pretty valuable. Whether a person gets them right, wrong, or doesn't care (I think there's always a "WTF IDGAF" option) says a lot about their personality at the very least. I don't think it has to be an elitist thing, I mean the questions are all pretty easy.

there are plenty of women out there who actually are into those kinds of (moronic) guys! i'm just sayin'

Useful way of weeding out feminazis imo