Two Questions:

• I. One of the options on OKCupid is to message a person whose inbox is already full by paying $1. Have you used this option and what were the overall results?

On one hand I have a knee-jerk reaction to paying extra money to message someone specific who may not message me back. Also, any person who has their inbox full has had a lot of attention and already hasn't found someone. There are easily a handful of explanations for why that may not have happened (guys message too often, she's very approachable, she had a long conversation with one or two people who didn't work out, she's very picky, she has had the profile a long time and left the site but doesn't update her relationship status on there, or some other option)

On the other hand, any person who has their inbox full is unlikely to be recieving a lot of messages in the recent past. That distinguishes the person who pays the extra $1 to message them since the person being messaged will be in a situation that resembles being in low demand (recieving messages rarely). This places you in a smaller pool of competition than normal.

• II. What are your thoughts on the usefulness of paying for the site's subscription service?

I can see the draw of joining a dating service that requires you to pay for access to it since a paywall instantly filters for a lot of things (though OKCupid seems like it might be good enough for the task). However, I'm on the fence about the benefits of the A-List subscription service for OKCupid. Have you tried it out at all?