Will_Newsome comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 September 2010 05:36:57PM *  15 points [-]

OkCupid thread, anyone?

I was thinking that those of us that aren't shy could share our OkCupid profiles for critique from people who know better. (Not that we have to accept the critiques as valid, but this is an area where it'd be good to have others' opinions anyway.)

If anyone wants to get the ball rolling, post a link to your profile and hopefully someone will offer a suggestion (or a compliment).

Also, I bet cross-sexual-preference critique would be best: which for most of us means gals critiquing guys and guys critiquing gals. But I realize the LW gender skew limits that.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 24 September 2010 05:48:04PM 2 points [-]

Autothexis at OKC. Critiques are welcome.

Profile's been pretty successful. I think the main limiting factor is my age, but even then I've managed to hook up with a few cute girls from Cal without putting in too much effort.

Comment author: Relsqui 26 September 2010 06:02:20AM 0 points [-]

40% match. Wow. Picture me backing away slowly.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 26 September 2010 10:27:55AM 2 points [-]

Haha I noticed that. It's rather odd. A girl I've been dating for the last few months and the one I like the most has about a 40% match with me and it's incredibly hard to see why. I guess I should directly compare our questions or something. It was at about 80% until they switched up the Matching mechanism: I have no idea what they did, but I think it was for the worse. Maybe not though.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 February 2013 05:44:09PM *  1 point [-]

A girl I've been dating for the last few months and the one I like the most has about a 40% match with me and it's incredibly hard to see why.

You are probably using it wrong.