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2 Post author: casebash 25 September 2015 04:10AM

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Comment author: casebash 27 September 2015 01:21:02AM 1 point [-]

Maybe there were signals, but they were just friendly signals. Regardless, this isn't relevant to the question. You're ignoring the hypothetical.

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 September 2015 06:16:49PM 0 points [-]

You're ignoring the hypothetical.

I'm not really. Being creepy isn't about violating a straightforward rule such as that 40 year olds shouldn't ask out 20 year olds. It's about not reading the signals in an interaction and as a result having a bad model of the other person and engaging in actions that make them uncomfortable as a result.

A person purposefully sending friendly signals might still say no when asked out, but they generally don't get creeped out.