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

@f. hazel, does that apply to doing (other) drugs, as well (e.g., MDMA, cannabis, etc.)?

yeah, that sounds about right, something that's rarely spelled out

as i've probably said elsewhere, i don't date, but that was a thing i noticed people talking about here

are you just on OKC for research purposes or

i'm not on it at all

but i do read ilx

same, lol

the last time i had anything like a situation that would come close to being relevant to these threads was in 2009/2010

@f. hazel, does that apply to doing (other) drugs, as well (e.g., MDMA, cannabis, etc.)?

I dunno, maybe? I know if everyone else at the table is doing MDMA or LSD either I'm joining in or I'm leaving.

Also I think of it along the lines of I am vegetarian, and a lot of times my friends will invite me to steak dinners for companionship but other times they clearly wanna go and all eat a giant pile of meat together with everyone participating, so I don't get invited, and I understand why and therefore don't feel particularly hurt or left out by it. We're animals and sharing food and drink is a thing. Being the one person there who isn't makes people nervous even beyond the intoxication thing.

i think one of the reasons i read this is b/c in a way it's a lot more interesting to me than a lot of the other stuff that's been going on here. no one forces me to read this, but i do.

i could probably give some good advice too but some of it would be harsh. that's just my observation. anyway my last actual relationship ended in 2006 and since then it's just been little things here and there that haven't qualified as relationships or even dating maybe

"I am full of depth and intelligence." Jesus Christ what is wrong with people?

he clearly is

that's too bad, I like people with a little space left to fill up with intelligence

or something something sexual innuendo

Quickmatch is telling me there are some people I should see, which I think means ppl who have starred me highly? So I'm just clicking through and reading their 1st paragraphs and I can't reject them fast enough--after about 5 in a row where I didn't need to read further than the 2nd sentence it's like, really, I'm almost positive there are some men ages 34-42 who can describe themselves halfway competently and live within 5 miles of me. I just have no idea how to find them.

It doesn't mean they starred you fwiw

Hm okay. It seemed like there were often ppl in my qm queue who had also visited my profile/appeared high in my searches very often, so I thought maybe there was a correlation.

much like mustaches, never trust an algorithm

there's definitely a correlation though. if you four or five star someone, the next time they look at their quickmatches, you'll be one of the first few to come up. it might take other factors into consideration though, like probably match percentage.

Hm okay. It seemed like there were often ppl in my qm queue who had also visited my profile/appeared high in my searches very often, so I thought maybe there was a correlation.

Both people who starred you and suggested matches (aka Quiver) will be mixed in to the quickmatch results but they aren't necessarily the same people. They can be, of course, but not necessarily.

Lately Ive been going thru the "whos new" and the who visited me lists and my yelps of disgust are getting a little too frequent. My list is loaded with headless shirt off workout fake tan dudes, cross-dressers, extremely-middle aged businessmen and gross fedora dudes with weird distorted heads.

WHERE ARE ALL THE PLAIN NORMAL PEOPLE. No offence to bbuilders, xdressers, etc etc obv.

extremely-middle aged you say?

like, 44, very 44

Well, 55+ is what I was reaching for.

"the extreme middles"

http://foodcourtlunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/homer-sugar-pile.jpg

:D

Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.

Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.

Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.

If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site.

However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid:

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Thank you,
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Background on Mr. Eich and Mozilla
In 2008, Mr. Eich supported the passage of California’s Prop 8, a statewide initiative to ban gay marriage, with a $1000 donation. Granted, his contribution is now six years in the past, and people can change. But Mr. Eich’s boilerplate statements in the time since make it seem like he has the same views now as he did then. Mozilla recently promoted him to CEO, hence the issue only now coming to our attention. His donation was known to Mozilla at the time of his promotion, and, furthermore, CEOs are rewarded based on their company’s performance. The CEO is the visionary for a company and its products. We are sad to think that any OkCupid page loads would even indirectly contribute towards the success of an individual who supported Prop 8—and who for all we know would support it again. We wish Mozilla’s institutional commitment to freedom and openness were better reflected by their choice of leadership.

Continue to OkCupid

you shouldn't be using firefox in 2014 anyway

even if you work for mozilla

you should bite me in 2014

banter!

that's actually a total bummer. i'm not gonna stop using Firefox, tho

i thought firefox was the cool noncorporate indie one which is why i've used it exclusively for the past ten(?) years. slowly realizing i don't know anything.

pretty sure lynx is the indiest of browser-stances

i thought firefox was the cool noncorporate indie one which is why i've used it exclusively for the past ten(?) years. slowly realizing i don't know anything.

"Mozilla's new CEO"

it's heydey was, what, like 2004 to 2008/2009 when chrome came out, now a ton of people use chrome. some still use ie. i use safari.

i had a firefox shirt once

Hahah yeah Firefox hasnt been indiecool in a long time, it has become a bloated sack of CPUdraining protoplasm. Chrome is way way faster and nicer these days (and I was a real FF stalwart for years)

Is there a Firefox spinoff that makes it really trim, the way Firefox was a spinoff from Mozilla?

btw I proposed yesterday making a fork of Firefox source code to release the Flamingfox browser. As CEO of the Nozilla foundation, I would like to say that if you use Flamingfox you are against all marriage.

p big on internet exploder over here

is your name steve ballmer or satya nadella

qiqing is going to be the fourth ceo of microsoft

or is that deliberate xxpost

remember that little javascript thing that was going around a while back where you could blow up parts of a web page? that's kinda like an "internet exploder"

idk is it a lame april fools *in-joke*? i think i just got taken in by a lame joke. i'm always making such shitty forays into ilx.

i have no idea what we're talking about at this point

let's get back to another tale of frustrated disillusionment and despair with okc before i derail this thread any further

it's ok. do stick around.