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This one works, works WELL, has a sense of humor and is completely, totally FREE. One point of recommendation- don't click "Anixious? Join FAST" on the homepage. Click "Curious? Take the Test" instead- it is the best way to start using the site. Once there, look me up as "elvenspell".
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 15, 2004 - 1:01 AMI second this endorsement! In fact, I made the suggestion in the thread about free sites a bunch of days ago. :)
I'm looking you up now, elvenspell. My name on there is Moiraine2342. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 15, 2004 - 2:12 AMVery cool! I've responded there. I really recommend this service to anyone!
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 15, 2004 - 10:27 PM>>I made the suggestion in the thread about free sites a bunch of days ago. :)
Yeah, after I turned you onto it a couple weeks before that. :) -
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 15, 2004 - 10:36 PMTrue, true. What's your handle on there?
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 15, 2004 - 7:13 PMWell, it seems that someone I was interested in doesn't exactly line up with me (understatement...44%) . Guess I know where I stand. Probably could have guessed that without this... :) -
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Re: OKCupid!
Sat, April 17, 2004 - 5:04 PMActually bumped up to 52% by answering more questions....sad side effect is that I'm addicted to answering more questions. :^p -
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Re: OKCupid!
Sat, April 17, 2004 - 9:43 PMOne thing I really like about this site is that it tells you how they do the calculations of compatibility. I haven't read all of it but I like the mathematics behind it so far.
Plus they tell you the demographics and stats about people who are using the site.
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Re: OKCupid!
Sun, April 18, 2004 - 3:38 AMHmm, according to their stats, 60% of their users are female. I wonder what explains the distaff skew. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Sun, April 18, 2004 - 7:57 PMI wondered that too. It looks like a lot of the girls are 21 and under. ::shrugs:: -
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Thu, April 22, 2004 - 1:16 PMThat is the problem. There are two women in San Diego at are between 25 and 33 (My dating range).
Needs more older people! -
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Re: OKCupid!
Sun, April 25, 2004 - 12:20 PMYeah? Try living in the midwest. Most of those that ARE in my dating range are unrepentant 'necks, some other type of right-winger, or just creepy in general. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Mon, April 26, 2004 - 2:28 PMHah. As a guy I think that sounds like good news to me. I'm middle of the road and pretty much well balanced in general. I regret EVER driving back home from Minnesota, at least 2 women at the Daddy's Money bar and grill hit on me, and one explicitly.
BTW I'm going to be gone for a week or more as of now.. I'm in the process of moving :\
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 22, 2004 - 3:17 PMSome of those questions on the initial test are HARD to answer. But it's an interesting site. I will be curious to see what comes out of it.
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, April 23, 2004 - 10:28 AMHere is something they don't tell you. Once you submit a profile, it can take many hours for the changes to take place. I changed my profile and them looked up some girls and nothing. Checked it today and I have a whole list of them. Weird. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 29, 2004 - 1:51 PMHa! Got me a date tonight from OkCupid!
The creepy thing about OkCupid is that they pretty much nailed me as a person with their tests. I answered 501 questions and then checked out the graphs and they nailed me. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 29, 2004 - 5:06 PMThat's what impressed me most. :-)
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, April 29, 2004 - 5:34 PMWell, don't people usually put an ad up in the hopes of eventually getting nailed? -
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, April 30, 2004 - 3:37 AMThat doesn't seem to work too well with OKCupid. The way that it works best is if you answer its questions with as much honesty as possible. Then it matches you with folks who might be interested in "nailing" you as you really are, rather than you needing to try too hard to make your ad "nailable".
It's worked for me, now, a few times. The joys of polyamory. :-) -
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, April 30, 2004 - 12:17 PMHeh, I wasn't encouraging lying in order to get nailed, I mean that the goal of most ad-putter-uppers is to eventually get some...
But the joke is gone now. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, April 30, 2004 - 12:18 PMOh no! Oh no! I let it loose! It is gone! GONE!
Do you think it will survive in the wild? :-(
(my wacky way of apologizing)
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, April 23, 2004 - 10:28 AMHere is something they don't tell you. Once you submit a profile, it can take many hours for the changes to take place. I changed my profile and them looked up some girls and nothing. Checked it today and I have a whole list of them. Weird.
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, May 21, 2004 - 9:46 AMI am on this as well as faeriedreamer. I like it so far. There does seem to be a high amount of younger people but some older ones have slipped through the cracks. I have been chatting regularly with one guy from that but we havent met yet. Noone who has wooed or written me unfortunately was someone I was interested in but still the questions are fun ;) -
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, May 21, 2004 - 10:13 AMspeaking as a "younger" person (i guess), im somewhat annoyed with okcupid. everyone in my age range (ill say 18-25) seems to be a webcam ho. cleavage and muscle shots and people trying to look hip and emo and whatnot just fail to impress me. ive met a couple of very nice people, but the vast majority seem like fraternijerks and sorostitutes in training. maybe im oldfashioned or something because i dont feel the need to bare my biceps, but id much prefer a profile with some content. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Sat, July 3, 2004 - 12:44 PMDemographics problem? Wait til you get older! Maybe the folks you are looking for aren't spending their time trying to impress the internet? Personally, I've never dated anyone from an online service. It seems like an ackward way to meet. However, based on blind dates arranged by friends that I've gone on, I'd probably choose online dating. At least there you don't have to deal with your friends' issues as well!
Good luck, especially if you haven't had any already.
PS I like OKCupid--its uses questions posted by users to winnow down the choices. And, yes, I agree having to answer the same questions over is annoying--there may be a reason for it though. I'm not an expert on statistical personality testing...yet.
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Re: OKCupid!
Mon, May 24, 2004 - 7:00 AMGood Lord! I thought eharmony had too many questions!!! Yikes!! I'll keep going though. Just not right now. :-)
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Re: OKCupid!
Mon, May 24, 2004 - 8:18 PMThere's something screwy with their system. I know I've answered some of them before but they keep wanting me to answer them and you can't really pick and choose...
I'm not liking this site as much.....young is a little too young (or I could just not matching with my peers). -
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Re: OKCupid!
Mon, May 24, 2004 - 9:47 PMYeah... there seems to be a lot of young girls on there in my area, anyway. And almost none that I find interesting. I haven't run into your problem w/ the questions, though... Of course, I have too much time on my hands and answered every question that I possibly can (1,023 or something).
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Re: OKCupid!
Sat, July 3, 2004 - 1:55 PMAt least with OKCupid, when you answer 1186 questions, it doesn't finish off the process by telling you "Sorry, you're one of 20% of the population that we can't shoehorn into an archetype. Our service just isn't for you. Thanks for wasting your time!"
At least I *think* that was eHarmony who did that when I tried to sign up with them.
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Re: OKCupid!
Thu, May 27, 2004 - 3:58 AMI have yet to acually meet anyone from OKCupid... it's what you get when you live in an area with about 50 "local" matches (only 15 of which are actually local), and none of them seem all that interesting. I think I'd have a much better chance of meeting someone from that site if I lived in a more metropolitan area.
Having said that, it's probably one of the best sites I've seen. It's got a great match system (if somewhat slanted questions) and it actually behooves you to be HONEST, which is something I can't say about other sites. Not only that, it's totally free and even if the interesting people live too far away to date, there are a *lot* of interesting people to talk to as penpals.
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Re: OKCupid!
Mon, June 28, 2004 - 9:05 PMOoh, thanks for the info. I (heart) OK Cupid. I doubt I'll get a date out of this but it's been a great ego booster to get hit on by cute 22 year olds!
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 12:54 PMThat's funny, because I took the test, and it assessed me as "The Playboy", which according to their definition, I clearly am not. I think that I understand some of the pivotal questions that got me put in that category, and it's fairly clear that they are making a lot of assumptions based on their line of questioning which are in fact, fairly two dimensional. There is an issue of semantics ("How many people have you slept with"- most people would assume that this means "intercourse", though I have a more conservative definition), as well as a lot of grey area to be had in their line of questioning, which they do not account for. I'll stick with it though, and see what happens... -
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Re: OKCupid!
Fri, July 2, 2004 - 4:11 PMThey have been recommending one guy for me over and over again. Only trouble is, I met him on Jdate and he blew me off.
Everyone else they suggest is waaay younger than what I'm comfortable with despite my specifications of 33-46 years old.
And what the fuck is up with all those questions? Some of them are so stupid or redundant or both. I'd like to put one on there like " If you were a flower, what would you be and why" because it's about as creative as some of 15,000 questions you have to sift through.
I agree about eHarmony. Sucks bigtime!!
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Re: OKCupid!
Tue, July 6, 2004 - 6:26 PMBeth,
Did you ever hear from Mr. JDate? Hope he didn't give you some lame excuse later--ugh.
Here's my (funnier) rant! Hope it cheers you up!
About 15 years ago I answered the one and only classified personals ad I've ever responded to. I waited and waited. Turned out my dream elementary school teacher was actually a journalist for the SF Chronicle. Guess what she was doing? She didn't even return my photo for which I had included a SASE for in my letter to her to send it back. Its the only picture of me that I know of wearing my favorite shirt of that period. At least she didn't use my picture in her articles. I thought about suing the Chronicle anyway--pain and suffering.
Since then, I haven't felt all that inclined to respond to newspaper personals.
Dating services and other media are the luck of the draw, no matter how you slice it. You've had bad luck. So far, on OKCupid, I've seen several people who I just *know* would make great partners...if they weren't 19. So, don't give up. Maybe they're out there somewhere (hey, kill that X-files music!). As for me, I love it cuz I have plenty of matches...that I'm sure I'll check out if I have occasion to and I just can't get enough of those cewl graphs! As for finding the perfect match, just ask someone who has a close match out. I know I want to...especially that woman in Florida! Sigh. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Tue, July 6, 2004 - 7:03 PMTimbo, what's an SASE?
Regarding the journalist, that's a pretty rotten thing to do. Boo on her!
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Re: OKCupid!
Tue, July 6, 2004 - 8:50 PMNo I didn't hear from Mr. JDate. I can't say that I'm sad about it either. What a snively snakey snarky thing to do to someone!And she didn't give you your photo back either! Did you have the negatives so at least you could make a re-print?
Well, as much as I like looking at younger guys, OkayCupid just wants to offer me jailbait or Mr.JDate.
Do you have a dog Timbo? Dogs are great for many many reasons such as the exercise, companionship, and meeting cute single people. I've been taking my landlord's dog out since summer started. Not only do we have fun together, I have fun meeting cute men.
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Tue, July 6, 2004 - 10:37 PMI hear the dog thing a lot... I have 2 dogs... I need to take them to the dog park or something... People always comment on them when I have one or both of them out.
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Re: OKCupid!
Wed, July 7, 2004 - 1:36 AMB,
"Oily in Oakland" eh? The romantic in me wants to believe that Mr.JDate got hit by a car. However, I'm thinking he either chickened out or, worse, had two dates at the same time, had success at the other one and blew your's off. Lame either way you slice that.
Mr.JDate, you suck! (My humble apologies if you were truly hit by the twinky truck on the way to meet your soulmate.)
I'm not actively...well, I'm not--please believe me--looking for anyone else to date at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion about dogs though. I don't personally want to own a dog in an urban setting. (I think its unfair to the poor things, especially if they don't have at least three or more human/pet friends to play with all the time.) However, I have seen the success one might have owning a cockapoo when pet sitting last year and wandering around SF. He was an adorable, shy, and 7 month old puppy--always a good combination to gain the attention of women looking to do some immediate heavy petting! As I alluded to above though, I'm hopefully becoming involved with someone special at the moment--I'm hoping for a summer of love! The puppy ploy may be retired forever if I'm paying good attention to detail. Thanks for the suggestion though--it certainly seems like a good solution for those who like dogs and respect the women who love them. -
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Re: OKCupid!
Wed, July 7, 2004 - 3:02 PMI agree Timbo. Don't pimp out your pup if you don't like dogs or you have ethical reasons (like the one you described) for not keeping one.
I agree, let's all give a collective raspberry to Mr.JDate in SF who blew me off on that site after engaging me in an interesting, teasing IM session. The same loser that keeps coming up as my ideal match on OKCupid.
Good luck with your summer romance :)
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Re: OKCupid!
Wed, July 7, 2004 - 5:20 PMBunny,
Er, you might rabbit, you might!
:)
Hey, I'm thinking that we could have an okcupid "amnesty" tribe--the purpose would be to try to guess people's okcupid ids. Waddya guys think?
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Re: OKCupid!
Wed, July 7, 2004 - 7:26 PMHmmmm... Interesting semi-Cacophanous tactic there. Exposing creeps by cruising the dating sites. There must be a culture
jamming tribe out there that's already thought of this.
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Re: OKCupid!
Wed, July 7, 2004 - 9:30 PMNo, my purpose was to just figure out who tribe people on okcupid were. Mine's pretty obvious. If you can get a hit on me easily. I'm going to start another subthread on that subject now.
In other words, I'm just trying to link up okcupid ids with tribe ids. In other words...I'm creepy. aagh! I like your idea better. Thanks for reading more into it than my little brain intended though. Great idea! You'd just need some volunteers that weren't getting distracte
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Re: OKCupid!
Wed, May 25, 2005 - 4:54 PMThe site seems wonderful! The people seem interesting. But of course there are no people even remotely local to me -
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Re: OKCupid!
Sat, May 31, 2008 - 8:50 PMThey just revised their personality test as of a few hours ago. I retook it and now I'm some mean love dreamer dude...instead of my old, much more pleasing rating--I guess that's where honesty will get you...or, maybe, they redesigned the test to piss off honest folks? Whatever.
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