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okcupid thread or i guess general dating thread
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I had this problem last time. In fact I think you me and Berk discussed the phenomenon and browsed each others' selections
...mind you I think "last time" equates to years at this point
hmm she's 24 and local:
that right there is a complete and utter turnoff
also twilight and barefaced admitting to being ugly
only like ironically LOL
ps kids are not a problem i can deal, my ex was a mum
I don't know why
but this one sounded more dumb than any of the other lols
Oh hey I knew people that went there.
I'm more concerned that she... can't seem to find one of her kids? Really I'm not even sure how to parse that sentence.
I'm thinking I might maybe possibly join you soon. Don't really want to, but I do at the same time. And i'm wondering how I'd even do at this point
but surely a profile that's written so clumsily—with zero attention paid not even to grammar but to basic things like your SHIFT KEY and your FULL STOP KEY—isn't going to net you that much attention
maybe I am overthinking this... maybe
but a profile written like that makes me think that if you're so inattentive and vapid as to the way you "sell" yourself or try to attract people enough to send you a message, it does not make me think you are really very serious about finding someone on OKC at all and are just doing it for some other reason
maybe those reasons are valid, sure, but I dunno, I feel like if she can't even put the effort into making a profile that's coherent, why bother making one at all
England, right?
I'm sure it got eaten by a feral Hobbit or something.
You know, showing you're not desperate or something by putting no effort in at all
They all get ignored.
lol
You are definitely over thinking this. There are a lot of people who do not see grammar and all this as a priority. Especially not online
That might not make them your ideal person, but it doesn't make them an unsuitable match
That's all I need.
I see where that other child went to now.
You've got weird dowry requirements.
Or at least the absence of lols
it's the sheer vapidity, if you will, of the stuff she is saying
you read all that stuff in her profile and you realize that even though you've read it, you know NOTHING about her except for the fact that has kids, laughs out loud a LOT, has an allegedly cute butt (LOL) and cannot think of a six thing she can't live without
sounds good and fun let's do that
I could see someone not having particularly strong writing skills consequently having a profile on OKC that doesn't really sell itself.
It just gives a horrible first impression, since for sites like this it's really just your writing and your pictures that you have to work with.
mostly I think that, okay, you sign up on a dating site to meet people, usually because other more "conventional" methods have not worked
when your profile is essentially the ONLY thing people look at prior to establishing contact, the fact that no EFFORT has been made to coherently share a single interesting thing about yourself, to me, indicates that if I messaged you, I'd be wasting my time
either you're not really into the OKC idea and you're doing it because you really don't know where else to go
or you want to seem completely "above" the online dating thing
or you want to appear completely aloof and disinterested (WHICH MIGHT WORK IN REAL LIFE BUT DOES NOT WORK ON A DATING SITE BECAUSE YOU ARE ON A DATING SITE YOU ARE CLEARLY INTERESTED ON SOME LEVEL OR ANOTHER so it's bullshit anyway)
and these things, to me, personally, do not appeal in the slightest (no matter how cute the butt really is), particularly if I were on OKC looking for a relationship with some potential
Yeah, while horrible grammar online bugs me, I know plenty of smart people in real life that just don't care about it online
Pretty much. I probably didn't make it clear in my initial post on the matter, but it's the lack of effort more than the lack of proper grammar that would bug me.