OkCupid is the funniest damn thing... - Page 3

BitVyper · 06-17-2010, 01:56 PM

Okay, but Noncon has to be the Kurgan.

Solid Snake · 06-17-2010, 02:08 PM

...I wonder, do they send the ugliest 50% that kind of an e-mail too?
Also: How offensive is it that OKCupid arbitrarily restricts you from looking up attractive people based on how a select minority might rate your looks? Damn, man, all I have to say is I'd be awfully offended if I joined OKCupid and didn't receive that e-mail after a few months.

Also: Congrats NonCon, you hereby have been rated a sexy gent! This confirms our long-held suspicion that women are disproportionately attracted to gay men. Now change your profile so it says you like men and see what happens. XD

Aerozord · 06-17-2010, 02:34 PM

well the solution to me is obvious. While you are at the bottom of the "hot" ladder, that still gives you hot status. So just go slumming to all the "not" people, to whom you are now a glorious uplifted demi-god of physical human perfection.

Alternatively sell a bunch of self-help books and seminars, I became attractive, and so can you

BitVyper · 06-17-2010, 02:43 PM

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Also: How offensive is it that OKCupid arbitrarily restricts you from looking up attractive people based on how a select minority might rate your looks? Damn, man, all I have to say is I'd be awfully offended if I joined OKCupid and didn't receive that e-mail after a few months.

Honestly? I've found absolutely no difference. I'm pretty sure it's more of a "you haven't logged on in forever. COME BACK TO US" email. Like the kind you get from MMORPGs.

Nikose Tyris · 06-17-2010, 02:57 PM

I somehow did not receive this email, despite having made 65 hookups out of 120 responses...

I wonder what all this is based on. If it's only appearances, then no wonder.

Bard The 5th LW · 06-17-2010, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

I somehow did not receive this email, despite having made 65 hookups out of 120 responses...

I wonder what all this is based on. If it's only appearances, then no wonder.

Why of course it is based on appearances! What else is there to a person?

Ryanderman · 06-17-2010, 03:00 PM

From the info I can find, supposedly this just increases the odds of another attractive person appearing on your OkCupid homescreen, in that bar of recommended matches. Maybe it'll alter the algorithm in the "special blend" match search too, don't know.

Also supposedly, nothing will change for the rest of us ugly schmucks. We'll still be shown attractive users just as often as we were before. And we'll still fail to get them to write back to us, just as often as we were before. (I actually don't know much about the success rate. I don't think I ever initiated a single conversation on that site. I created my profile, and then didn't do anything with it for years)

Though I'm actually pretty fond of OkCupid now. I met my girlfriend there, and things are going really well for us. It's looking like success is possible, even for a bottom 50% ugly guy.

Krylo · 06-17-2010, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by BitVyper

Okay, but Noncon has to be the Kurgan.

Why in the world would you ever want someone else to be the Kurgan? The Kurgan was totally the most awesome of all Highlander characters.

He kept his neck closed with safety pins, for god sake.

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Originally Posted by Solid Snake

How offensive is it that OKCupid arbitrarily restricts you from looking up attractive people based on how a select minority might rate your looks?

It doesn't, though.

It just changes whom they recommend you try to go out with. Basically there's a much better chance that they're going to suggest... oh who do the kids like these days? Justin Bieber? Whatever, they're more likely to suggest he ask out Allyson Hannigan, than they are to suggest the same to Bubba The Hutt. But Bubba The Hutt can still search her out and shoot off an e-mail her way if he wants.

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Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

I wonder what all this is based on. If it's only appearances, then no wonder.

Says right in the e-mail it's based on how many people rank you 4 or 5 stars on Quick match/when seeing you in quiver.

Which, given human nature... yeah, basically appearances.

Kim · 06-17-2010, 03:21 PM

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Now change your profile so it says you like men and see what happens.

Already did. More or less going to go back to ignoring the profile again, unless they tell me I'm ugly again.

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Suddenly I feel so much more attracted to you.

It's working already!

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Is this the thread where noncon is the most attractive man on the internet?

That's every thread.

BitVyper · 06-17-2010, 03:25 PM

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Why in the world would you ever want someone else to be the Kurgan? The Kurgan was totally the most awesome of all Highlander characters.

I don't want to shave my head. Also I like Chris Lambert's voice.

Edit: Wait, was the Kurgan bald? Now I forget.

06-17-2010, 01:56 PM	#21
BitVyper History's Strongest Dilettante Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Arcadia Posts: 6,662	Okay, but Noncon has to be the Kurgan. __________________ "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea is asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace; we've got work to do!" Awesome art be here.

06-17-2010, 02:08 PM	#22
Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	...I wonder, do they send the ugliest 50% that kind of an e-mail too? Also: How offensive is it that OKCupid arbitrarily restricts you from looking up attractive people based on how a select minority might rate your looks? Damn, man, all I have to say is I'd be awfully offended if I joined OKCupid and didn't receive that e-mail after a few months. Also: Congrats NonCon, you hereby have been rated a sexy gent! This confirms our long-held suspicion that women are disproportionately attracted to gay men. Now change your profile so it says you like men and see what happens. XD __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text.

06-17-2010, 02:34 PM	#23
Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	well the solution to me is obvious. While you are at the bottom of the "hot" ladder, that still gives you hot status. So just go slumming to all the "not" people, to whom you are now a glorious uplifted demi-god of physical human perfection. Alternatively sell a bunch of self-help books and seminars, I became attractive, and so can you __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

06-17-2010, 03:00 PM	#27
Ryanderman Beard of Leadership Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 827	From the info I can find, supposedly this just increases the odds of another attractive person appearing on your OkCupid homescreen, in that bar of recommended matches. Maybe it'll alter the algorithm in the "special blend" match search too, don't know. Also supposedly, nothing will change for the rest of us ugly schmucks. We'll still be shown attractive users just as often as we were before. And we'll still fail to get them to write back to us, just as often as we were before. (I actually don't know much about the success rate. I don't think I ever initiated a single conversation on that site. I created my profile, and then didn't do anything with it for years) Though I'm actually pretty fond of OkCupid now. I met my girlfriend there, and things are going really well for us. It's looking like success is possible, even for a bottom 50% ugly guy. __________________ ~Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to stop, it turns. You tell it to turn, it stops. You tell it to take out the trash, it watches reruns of Firefly.~