Topic: Guys, are you turned off by long profiles?
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Mon 11/10/08 06:31 PM

Holy s**t Lex. Your profile is ummmmmm well, does it stop?


I just found out a couple weeks ago that there is a point where, if I keep adding stuff to the top, the bottom part goes away. So there IS a limit. This saddens me!


I am at my parents house at the moment and I am on a phone modem. The modem took a while just to scroll through all your profile.

When I get home to my high speed connection I will have to click your profile. I want to see if I can scroll all the way to China.


I was actually thinking about writing parts of it in Russian (I took it in high school) just to see if anyone would notice!


Thank you for your input. I would say you are more than qualified to comment on long profiles.


It's actually much easier to do a profile, even a long one, than a 460-page book, I know that much!


I do agree that forum post are a better way of getting to know a person. Unless of course the person's forum post happen to disappear. ha ha hummm hummm hummm la la la la la ....some here know to what I speak.


These things happen....! I know a little about that myself (from the other side....!)


I don't know if a woman could get away with having a profile as long as yours.


I would like to think she could. From a more practical standpoint. I would have to wonder how many men would take the time to read the whole thing.

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Mon 11/10/08 06:33 PM

Yup, I am kind of fond of your stupid idiot rebound comment: "dumb, Dumb, DUMB" states it perfectly.


"If I keep sticking my foot in the crocodile's mouth, one of these times he isn't going to bite it."

But, see, nobody explained that part to HIM....


Brilliance of the insightful written word, indeed! laugh

Nope, you are on your own to find a lovely lass/lad to wash your dirty shorts, sorry. I'm impressed, but not in love with you, dear sir. :tongue:


Well, you can't blame a guy for trying....!


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Mon 11/10/08 06:35 PM
No worries sweets .. long or short, good or bad .. they usually don't read them anyway. Trust me on this. :tongue:

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Mon 11/10/08 07:09 PM
Edited by AmazingAmanda on Mon 11/10/08 07:44 PM
lexx: I was actually thinking about writing parts of it in Russian (I took it in high school) just to see if anyone would notice


Go for it. I am on my 4th year of Russian in college and I even get to practice it when I visit Atlantic City. I have some Russian girlfriends there. I'm pretty good at both speaking, reading, and writing Russian (and French). Those were a few of the facts that I edited out of my profile when I shortened it. Friends told me I sounded too snobby.

At the dating site I was on prevously I had a note 3/4ths the way down my profile stating that if a guy didn't mention the word "pineapple" in his message to me then I would not respond to him. Most guys didn't mention it because they didn't read that far I am assuming.


edited to put an extra "o" in "too"

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Mon 11/10/08 07:17 PM

At the dating site I was on prevously I had a note 3/4ths the way down my profile stating that if a guy didn't mention the word "pineapple" in his message to me then I would not respond to him. Most guys didn't mention it because they didn't read that far I am assuming.


The consensus around here seems to be that guys just look at pictures and ignore anything written. I can't really speak to that -- I need content and substance, and that's inevitably more of a "word" thing than a pic thing -- for me, anyway.

I look at Mutual Match candidates every day, and some of them have great pics -- but the profile snippets are so gawdawful lifeless and boring that I have to click NO regardless. Too much experience with the ever-so-cute but ever-so-brainless fluffballs, I guess....and it seems every girl within 250 miles of me is using the exact same profile. And it's not a good one.

Physical attraction is a huge thing, sure -- but if she bores me to tears after a few months -- the standard scenario -- it doesn't matter how great she looks.

So it wouldn't surprise me if most guys never got to that part of your profile. And that really tells you all you need to know!

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Mon 11/10/08 07:21 PM
it does not answer the question of how many ascii characters are required to overflow the mingle2 profile buffer!!

Lex? are you bogging down the server?

noway


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Mon 11/10/08 07:24 PM

it does not answer the question of how many ascii characters are required to overflow the mingle2 profile buffer!!

Lex? are you bogging down the server?

noway


I've been trying, but they keep upgrading it. Now they've done something to where my profile can only be so long before the bottom part starts to disappear. It's a conspiracy.

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Mon 11/10/08 07:52 PM

Lex:

I look at Mutual Match candidates every day....


I am not entirely sure about that mutual match thing. I don't know exactly what it does or if I trust it.

I didn't notice it until a few hours ago (it's only my 3rd day here). Right now it says I have 116 people on it.

Is that number for real? Does the mingle2 computer just throw up random guys profiles for me to rate? Where did these guys come from and how did they get on my mutual match list? What happens after I rate them?

I read the link about mutual matches but it seems not to apply to mine. I can't believe 116 guys have added themselves to my list. Even MY heads not THAT big.


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Mon 11/10/08 08:02 PM


Lex:

I look at Mutual Match candidates every day....


I am not entirely sure about that mutual match thing. I don't know exactly what it does or if I trust it.

I didn't notice it until a few hours ago (it's only my 3rd day here). Right now it says I have 116 people on it.

Is that number for real? Does the mingle2 computer just throw up random guys profiles for me to rate? Where did these guys come from and how did they get on my mutual match list? What happens after I rate them?

I read the link about mutual matches but it seems not to apply to mine. I can't believe 116 guys have added themselves to my list. Even MY heads not THAT big.




Just click "YES" when my face arrives. Everything else is gravy.

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Mon 11/10/08 08:26 PM
Edited by AmazingAmanda on Mon 11/10/08 08:28 PM
cleanbathroom: Just click "YES" when my face arrives. Everything else is gravy.


I can't because.....

1: In order to get to you I have to click yes, no, or maybe, to dozens of other guys. It's too much work and I'm afraid if I click yes 116 times my mailbox will break. If I click no 116 times I will have 116 angry forum stalkers.

2: You live in Florida and you are 40 years old. I live in Pa and I am only 22.

3: We already exchanged multiple messages. WTF do you need a mutual match for?

4: You're too nice.

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Mon 11/10/08 08:35 PM
rofl rofl rofl And I havn't mutual matched with her yet!

Her profile's cool and she's beautiful; I'm just waiting for her to message me!!!tongue2

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Mon 11/10/08 08:42 PM
Hey at least she hit you guys back,

tears tears tears tears tears

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Mon 11/10/08 08:44 PM

And I havn't mutual matched with her yet!

Her profile's cool and she's beautiful; I'm just waiting for her to message me!!!


Thank you

You are closer to my age but still you are from LaGrange Ga.

However, although I live in Philadelphia I was born in good ol Columbus Ga. I use to live on Warm Springs Road near Peach Tree mall.

I think I saw you in the mall once.


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Mon 11/10/08 08:48 PM
Riding Dubz:
Hey at least she hit you guys back,

tears tears tears tears tears


ummmmm dude....your message to me was only one word and it actually wasn't even a word. "pppppssssssttttt" WTF is that?

Even your message headline wasn't a full word. ha ha

I can get that from walking by a construction site.

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Mon 11/10/08 08:50 PM
cleanbathroom: Just click "YES" when my face arrives. Everything else is gravy.


I can't because.....

1: In order to get to you I have to click yes, no, or maybe, to dozens of other guys. It's too much work and I'm afraid if I click yes 116 times my mailbox will break. If I click no 116 times I will have 116 angry forum stalkers.

No worries about that. Mutual Match won't show them who clicked " No " on them. It only shows anything at all if there is a " Yes " or a " Maybe click on their profile.

If he clicks " Yes " but you click " No "....he'll never know it.

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Mon 11/10/08 08:59 PM
Edited by adj4u on Mon 11/10/08 09:02 PM
well amanda i also like item #12 in your interests list :wink:

flowerforyou drinker

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Mon 11/10/08 09:00 PM
Edited by Engraven_Image on Mon 11/10/08 09:01 PM


And I havn't mutual matched with her yet!

Her profile's cool and she's beautiful; I'm just waiting for her to message me!!!


Thank you

You are closer to my age but still you are from LaGrange Ga.

However, although I live in Philadelphia I was born in good ol Columbus Ga. I use to live on Warm Springs Road near Peach Tree mall.

I think I saw you in the mall once.


Lol, I dunno, I just moved here last year from Illinois and havn't hit on any women here.

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Mon 11/10/08 09:04 PM
Edited by AmazingAmanda on Mon 11/10/08 09:07 PM


No worries about that. Mutual Match won't show them who clicked " No " on them. It only shows anything at all if there is a " Yes " or a " Maybe click on their profile.

If he clicks " Yes " but you click " No "....he'll never know it.

Thanks for the info but....

.... doesn't the mutual match function tell you when two people click yes to each other? In that case a guy will know that I clicked "no" because of the fact that he has not received a "yes" from me.

Maybe I'll just close my eyes and click maybe 116 times.


click click click click
click click click click

are we there yet?

click click click click

don't make me have to stop this car

clickity click clickity click


edit for this....

Oh snap...I JUST received another message from a guy without a shirt on. It says right at the top of my profile to have your shirt on before you message me.

Damn.....he didn't even read the First Line

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Mon 11/10/08 09:08 PM
What makes you so sure it was me in the first place? I just viewed your profile on here a couple times and thought highly of you. I figured I'd aat least come out and be sweet.

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Mon 11/10/08 09:09 PM

What makes you so sure it was me in the first place? I just viewed your profile on here a couple times and thought highly of you. I figured I'd aat least come out and be sweet.


Are you talking about me saying that I think I saw you in the mall? You do know I was kidding, right?