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Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

I think people would be pretty happy if dating websites gave you a score based on some really objectifying criteria and only allowed you to contact people with the same score as you.

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naem
May 29, 2011


*squarts*

ChrisHansen
Oct 28, 2014

Suck my damn balls.
Lipstick Apathy
I like random adventures and chipotle

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
do girls message guys on these or is it all the other way around

kukrunkarmaskin
Mar 28, 2005

you should see my TMNT® Machinegun
Well in my experience girls who are not hot enough to get tons of messages themselves sometimes message people!

midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW
Yeah I got "dam you look loving hot!" from a slightly overweight young lady.

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ
It must be weird to be a girl and have to send out messages but still be active enough on the internet that you read other girls complaining about a barrage of dick pics and poo poo like that. It's basically objective truth that you're undesirable. That sucks and makes me feel kinda bad

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

do girls message guys on these or is it all the other way around
OkC used to troll their sites for stats and post graphs and such about these kinds of statistics but the answer to that is mostly no, with a caveat of the really hot young guys with profile pics of their abs. As a bi guy who is decent looking (tall and with enough athletic hobbies to stay in shape but not a gym rat dedication to looking toned), I get a lot of messages from guys, including the underwear model looking ones, but pretty much the only proactive messages from women I got were fatties or people who lived thousands of miles away who wanted to chat about an interest/hobby in my profile and even then those were much fewer and far between.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

ArbitraryC posted:

OkC used to troll their sites for stats and post graphs and such about these kinds of statistics but the answer to that is mostly no, with a caveat of the really hot young guys with profile pics of their abs. As a bi guy who is decent looking (tall and with enough athletic hobbies to stay in shape but not a gym rat dedication to looking toned), I get a lot of messages from guys, including the underwear model looking ones, but pretty much the only proactive messages from women I got were fatties or people who lived thousands of miles away who wanted to chat about an interest/hobby in my profile and even then those were much fewer and far between.

Lmao

Libelous Slander
May 1, 2009

... you're just creepy ...
same girl:

lied via her pics to the tune of 60lbs. still saw the movie, did not hug after.

told me she was 18. was dumb enough to talk about her recent birthday a few weeks later. she was 18 again!

cut off all future contact.

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌
About 90% of the messages I've ever got from women are just "Hi" or "hey there", which kinda makes me not want to message them even if I like their profile because c'mon, don't you have anything interesting to say?

Then again there's always the girl who copied and pasted her OKcupid profile from her Fetlife profile - I know this because her OKC profile had kept the phrase "Some of my Vanilla interests are..." which tipped me off, and a quick google search later revealed that she was really, really into getting pissed on and enjoyed being a 'little' to her 'daddy dom'. Google those terms if you're in need of an emetic.

e: Having an OKC profile with a face pic and a Fetlife profile detailing all sorts of hosed up poo poo with the same profile name is being super good at life.

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

toggle posted:

ah yes. interesting :rolleyes:

quote:

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME IF YOU:
1. ARE BI OR BI CURIOUS. I AM LOOKING TO MEET A STRAIGHT MALE ONLY.
2. ARE RECRUITING FOR YOUR 'OPEN RELATIONSHIP'. I AM LOOKING TO MEET A SINGLE MALE WHO IS LOOKING TO ESTABLISH A MONOGAMOUS RELATIONSHIP.
3. HAVE ANY CHILDREN.
4. SMOKE OR GAMBLE.
5. ARE RELIGIOUS.
6. HAVE ANY SHIRTLESS PHOTOS OF YOURSELF IN YOUR PROFILE.
7. HAVE POOR SPELLING OR GRAMMAR.
8. USE THE TERM 'LOL' OR 'LMAO' OR ANY OTHER SUCH POP CULTURE ACRONYMS.
THANKS
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I’m really good at
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Movies: Pulp Fiction, Snatch, The Little Mermaid & The Wedding Singer.

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there is some severe cognitive dissonance going on here

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

It must be weird to be a girl and have to send out messages but still be active enough on the internet that you read other girls complaining about a barrage of dick pics and poo poo like that. It's basically objective truth that you're undesirable. That sucks and makes me feel kinda bad

I sometimes wonder if number of unsolicited dick pics is now at the point of humble-bragging among women.

midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW
I created a girl profile once for shits and giggles, let me tell you the dick pics were refreshing after the bazillion of sadbrains sob stories.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

I sometimes wonder if number of unsolicited dick pics is now at the point of humble-bragging among women.

Girls send me so many titty pix I have to clean out my inbox to keep below the gig limit.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

I suspect one of the nice things about Tinder is you can tell who the unattractive people are just based on whether they write anything in their summary.

whatis
Jun 6, 2012
i met the girl i've been seeing for about 4 months now on okcupid. she had something about being a licensed therapist in her profile

she said the best-worst first message she ever got was from some guy in his late 30s who sent her about 800 words about elliot rodger completely out of the blue

she figure it was a joke until she checked google for copypasta and came up with no hits

okcupid owns

pwnyXpress
Mar 28, 2007
The human condition. (The human, conditioned.)

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
somebody been sneakin into the crit theory stash after lights out i see...

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

midnightclimax posted:

I created a girl profile once

nothin crazy about that

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
harvestin dick pix for the reactor, gotta fuel the hellmachine somehow

The Twinkie Czar
Dec 31, 2004
I went for super stud.

Bro Nerd Alpha posted:

I can deal with sassy fat girls that put up pictures from 60lbs ago but not poop bags.

I wish there was a polite, encouraging way to tell someone that I sincerely appreciate their honestly but now want nothing to do with them. If they open by telling me they have hep I wish I could at least give them a smiley sticker before hiding their profile forever.


Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

I think people would be pretty happy if dating websites gave you a score based on some really objectifying criteria and only allowed you to contact people with the same score as you.

Dating websites should at least give people options to filter messages so they don't have have to say "DON'T EVEN SEND A MESSAGE IF YOUR NOT SINGLE AND MY AGE AND YOU DONT EVEN LIVE HERE. MATCHES UNDER 70% WILL BE DELETED."

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midnightclimax
Dec 3, 2011

by XyloJW

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

nothin crazy about that

Reading some of the sadbrains' stories felt a bit scummy, like reading someones diary. Then again, who the gently caress do you think I am, your mother? Are you looking for a date, or free therapy? Men these days.

subhuman filth
Nov 1, 2006

midnightclimax posted:

Reading some of the sadbrains' stories felt a bit scummy, like reading someones diary. Then again, who the gently caress do you think I am, your mother? Are you looking for a date, or free therapy? Men these days.

wait what where do you get sadbrains stories

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
My friend complains about OkCupid because the only girls who show any interest in him are fat single mothers.

He never messages anyone himself because he says there isn't anybody good in the area. The man is a grad student who lives right next to campus. Granted the city is Riverside, CA so it's probably poo poo outside the campus area but still.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

midnightclimax posted:

Reading some of the sadbrains' stories felt a bit scummy, like reading someones diary. Then again, who the gently caress do you think I am, your mother? Are you looking for a date, or free therapy? Men these days.
Its interesting that this seems to largely be a problem for straight women though. Like I got nerdy gay dudes who couldn't avoid talking about larp or whatever for their first message but none that came across as looking for therapy. Similarly I got a lot of generic "hey" messages from dudes and various forms of "u want sum fuk?" But I can only think of a couple that got nasty if I didn't reply or said I wasn't interested.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Chomp8645 posted:

My friend complains about OkCupid because the only girls who show any interest in him are fat single mothers.

He never messages anyone himself because he says there isn't anybody good in the area. The man is a grad student who lives right next to campus. Granted the city is Riverside, CA so it's probably poo poo outside the campus area but still.
Tell him to message grad student girls. If you're in a university town but too old to date undergrads they are goldmine of 25+ women who aren't divorced with kids already. Another bonus is grad students mostly hang out with other grad students in their department (which they don't want to date for obvious reasons) and have a really busy workload that doesn't leave much time for meeting new people, so I find they tend to be pretty normal people that turned to online dating out of convenience rather than desperation.

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

ArbitraryC posted:

Its interesting that this seems to largely be a problem for straight women though. Like I got nerdy gay dudes who couldn't avoid talking about larp or whatever for their first message but none that came across as looking for therapy. Similarly I got a lot of generic "hey" messages from dudes and various forms of "u want sum fuk?" But I can only think of a couple that got nasty if I didn't reply or said I wasn't interested.

It's very largely straight guys who have some massive ego issues, I very rarely have gay/bi men have a complete melt down at me when I say no thanks or ignore them.

Edit: to be far their success rate for getting hook ups is more like 50% vs the <2% response rate the average straight guy will get from women online.

LethalGeek fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 10, 2015

Setzer Gabbiani
Oct 13, 2004

Chomp8645 posted:

Granted the city is Riverside, CA

According to one chick I know in redlands, all the girls in the area have to deal with the fact there's this one girl with giant tits that's basically a bugzapper for all male interest in a 25-mile radius, and she practically gives herself away because she dumps her porn site and tumblr within the first hour of messaging if the guy seems like he'll devote 100% of his life to her

they've tried to gang-up on her in reports stating that she's basically an escort at this point, but she's pretty untouchable somehow, so given that this is a thing that actually happens, riverside is probably the last place you wanna find a stable relationship in

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Setzer Gabbiani posted:

According to one chick I know in redlands, all the girls in the area have to deal with the fact there's this one girl with giant tits that's basically a bugzapper for all male interest in a 25-mile radius, and she practically gives herself away because she dumps her porn site and tumblr within the first hour of messaging if the guy seems like he'll devote 100% of his life to her

they've tried to gang-up on her in reports stating that she's basically an escort at this point, but she's pretty untouchable somehow, so given that this is a thing that actually happens, riverside is probably the last place you wanna find a stable relationship in

I have a very hard time believing that a single profile, no matter it's content or use, could significantly affect the entire market of a place with a population measured in at least 5 digits. It's ridiculous for a number of reasons.

I think your friend is just jealous of that girl's titties.

chickie nugs for brekkie
May 17, 2010


"Look at how pretty and popular I am. Tee hee."

Bitch you a six and you dress up for the Ren Fair.

Literal Carehaver
Oct 20, 2014

by Cowcaster
im lonely with crippling depression and little status in life how far can i get in the world of electronic love? would it help to throw all my neurosis up on the profile or dump it unexpectedly during the first date?

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Setzer Gabbiani posted:

According to one chick I know in redlands, all the girls in the area have to deal with the fact there's this one girl with giant tits that's basically a bugzapper for all male interest in a 25-mile radius, and she practically gives herself away because she dumps her porn site and tumblr within the first hour of messaging if the guy seems like he'll devote 100% of his life to her

they've tried to gang-up on her in reports stating that she's basically an escort at this point, but she's pretty untouchable somehow, so given that this is a thing that actually happens, riverside is probably the last place you wanna find a stable relationship in

Link please

Literal Carehaver
Oct 20, 2014

by Cowcaster
"boy this panera bread sure is busy i was raped in my teens i sleep with an unloaded gun to my head"

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Literal Carehaver posted:

"boy this panera bread sure is busy i was raped in my teens i sleep with an unloaded gun to my head"

If it was tinder I'd say full steam ahead. Gun play is something not every one gets to experience

iSheep
Feb 5, 2006

by R. Guyovich
ABOUT ME:

"I'll fill this out later"

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
The only profile I've read that was in itself attractive was from a girl who was wheelchair bound and hid that until you messaged her. I remodeled my profile around hers because it was the only good one I've ever seen. Didn't reply after I found out about the wheelchair but in retrospect I probably should have, although it's a pretty lovely thing to meet people from a dating website if you're not interested in loving them.

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

do girls message guys on these or is it all the other way around

Girls message me about once a week. I don't think I've ever replied. I'm willing to let a lot of things slide in exchange for a hint of mental acuity and just the mildest bit of physical attractiveness but I need at least a taste of both.

raton fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Feb 10, 2015

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

The Cubelodyte posted:

Who the gently caress vilifies blue whales? :confused:

Lol that's what jumped out at me too.

Literal Carehaver
Oct 20, 2014

by Cowcaster
"i must die i must die I MUST DIE!!!!!!!!"

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opus111
Jul 6, 2014

ArbitraryC posted:

me:
Fat
Poor
Spinning my wheels

you:
Fit
Wealthy
Has poo poo together, plan for future

Oh, so women aren't allowed to have standards? *Expands like a pufferfish to deter predators*

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