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

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Comment author: mattnewport 27 September 2010 08:04:29PM 0 points [-]

Your food section is making me hungry ... but pickled onion monster what?

Monster Munch. It's kind of an in joke for anyone who happens to have lived in England - it's a well known brand there but pretty much unheard of anywhere else. For anyone who gets the reference the juxtaposition of a list of healthy unprocessed foods with a completely artificial processed snack might raise a smile.

Your photos are quite good, and the captions made me giggle. I can see why you picked the one you did for the top picture, but I really like the smile in the last one. Smiles are very attractive.

Thanks. The top one tested best on My Best Face on my old (now deleted) profile. I haven't compared it against the bottom one which is pretty recent. Smiles being good seems to be the conventional advice but OkTrends suggested otherwise in one post. I'll rerun the My Best Face test with the newer pictures included.

That said, if you do add more content to your profile and want an opinion on e.g. whether the humor works, I'd be happy to give it another eye.

I might take you up on that. I'll probably fill out the empty sections and refine what's already there over the next few days.

Comment author: Relsqui 27 September 2010 08:10:37PM 0 points [-]

Smiles being good seems to be the conventional advice but OkTrends suggested otherwise in one post.

As noted elsewhere, I don't put a lot of stock in their recommendations, but I admit I'm only the one data point.