wedrifid comments on Love and Rationality: Less Wrongers on OKCupid - LessWrong

19 Post author: Relsqui 11 October 2010 06:35AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 14 October 2010 06:54:12PM 6 points [-]

Concrete Advice #3: Omit all of these: "it's hard to summarize myself" "what should I say here" "I'm contradictory" "I'm nice" "I'm shy until you get to know me" "the first thing people notice is my eyes" "I need [obvious literal things] to live" "if it were private I wouldn't write it here" "you can ask me anything" and explicit suggestions that the reader should date you, even tongue-in-cheek

That advice deserves a prominent sidebar on the OkCupid profile editing page. Most profiles have at least one of those.

Comment author: Relsqui 15 October 2010 12:50:26AM 3 points [-]

Agreed. It was fun to write that list. I asked my OKC-using friends for suggestions, and almost all the responses were duplicates. Yup, that means they're cliches, all right.