I was first attracted to hubby because of his resemblance to Dennis Franz (Sipowicz on NYPD Blue). 
I was hot once, for a couple of hours back in 1962, one night when the hair, complexion, and outfit were just right.
For my age (61), I might be a 4, being slim, not gray yet, and not very wattley. Put me in a pastel sweatshirt with kittens on it though, and I slip right down to a 1.
Hmmm. 5 or 6 maybe? I did get a few positive comments in a recent picture thread, based on a picture where I was looking at close to my best. So we’ll stroke my ego and say that I can bump my score to a 6.5 or 7 
Isn’t that the pisser, though?
She’s an “internet 9”. Which translates to about a 7 or 8 IRL (which is still really good). Think about it. 10 is the highest you can go so a 9 or 10 is like Carmen Electra doing a strip tease hot. 10 is like you walk into a club and you’re THE guy/girl everyone’s looking at, even in a room full of hot people. (I’m assuming 5 is unremarkable plain and 1 is like elephant man)
My my calculations I’m probably about a mid 6 to 7. I have nice hair, regular height and weight, girls generally make favorable comments to/about me but they aren’t like “oh my god that guy’s so freakin hot!”. So like solidly above average hotness.
I’d say I’m an 8; that’s also my lucky number so it works out well (heh heh).
If you don’t believe me and want some sort of proof, I invite you to look at my pic webpage and judge for yourself.
Thanks ShibbOleth, 'punha, Sunspace and fetus. You sure know how to make a girl feel purty(er). I’d rate myself a 5 to 8, depending on weight, wearing glasses or not, clothes, hairday, mood, yadayada.
Most people tend to talk themselves down when asked how to rate themselves. IMHO, one gets a more realistic answer if one rephrases the question as: "Do you think that guy or woman is “in your league?”
I noticed that when I was coaching a gay friend of mine, “Walter” with his first steps in the world of dating sites. One minute, he’d look in despair at the photo of himself he put up with his profile and moan “I might as well give up. I’m hideous” .
Five minutes later, we’d be looking at the pictures of guys who had responded to his profile. I’d point to one of those and say: “Well, that seems like a nice guy” and then Walter would become all indignant. “Yeah, in his ugly-ass-dreams !”.
In the end, Walter ended up with a guy who was roughly as attractive as himself.
This thread would be good if there were pictures.
How about we start posting pictures along with the posts? We could say no comments unless if they are about deserving a higher grade. And I can go first.
The last photo thread was closed, so I got the impression that idea didn’t make the Mods joyous.
There’s nothing wrong with photo threads. We do them all the time. That one was closed because it got hijacked by a certain few Dopers and turned into a cat-pictures thread. The reasoning was that a human-pictures thread should stay that way so you can search and find all Doper pictures, and if people wanted to look at cat pictures they should start a cat-pictures thread.
So the Mods aren’t necessarily any more or less joyous than any of the rest of us WRT picture threads.
I don’t believe the mods cared about the fact that it was a photo thread as much as the thread was derailed and turned into a “show us your pets!” thread, which also isn’t a problem, it’s just a whole 'nother topic. A new photo thread pops up every few months or so with no problems.
Anywhere from a four to a six, maybe a seven, depending on how good I’m feeling that particular day. I’m pretty average looking.
I would suggest that we just did a massive photo thread here, so if you want to see anyone, go look in that thread. Um, I mean that in a nice way, not in a nasty way. See - I’m grinning. 
To Asian women, I’m probably a 7.5. (More like 7 if I didn’t go to the gym regularly.)
To non-Asian women, more like a 3.
I’m a little bothered by the idea that if I don’t think I’m spectacularly beautiful (I’m not) that means I have self-esteem issues.
I have a kind face. On my very best days in my life, I might have been cute. That knowledge doesn’t make me want to drown myself or anything. I’m reasonably clever, can occasionally be funny, and am living an okay life. I’m not beautiful. I’m not even pretty. That doesn’t mean I am down on myself. I’m realistic.
I wouldn’t say I’m hot, though at the very least I’d give myself “Witty and charming” and probabably “Kind of cute.”
I disagree. That makes the issue way to complicated. It should be a simple percentile scale. I figure based out of the group of your sex, ±5 years.
If you are better looking than 20% of the people in your group then you are a 2. If you are better looking than 95% of them you are a 9.5
Purely on my own, I would have come up with 6 or 7.
Out of curiosity I checked my hotornot score, which is 6.9, so I guess I’m pretty accurate in my self-assessment. Wish my hair wasn’t over one eye in the picture, though. (I was growing out my bangs, and now they’re long enough to tuck behind my ear, so that doesn’t happen anymore.)
I should put up a newer picture and see, one of these days!
Very well put. I feel the same way about myself. Being honest about my non-hotness doesn’t mean I have no feeling of self-worth. I don’t value others solely by their physical attractiveness, and I certainly don’t judge myself by that standard alone.
Yeah, but most people are only going to be better looking than 50% of the population. The normal distribution is pervasive, and there’s no reason to think it’s not applicable here.
For whatever reason, Asian males don’t really appeal to anyone but Asian women.