# Is match.com full of robots?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 25, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082 "2005-07-25T17:22:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/1 "2005-07-25T17:22:46Z")
OK I’ll confess to having signed up to [match.com](http://match.com). I recently received emails from a ‘member’ that were particularly strange, as in lacking in content. They were each single line non-directed comments, the second containing the non sequitur “I don’t like to party much” which had zero to do with my reply to email 1.
email 1
I really like your profile.Wanna Chat sometime.
email 2
I got your email.We can chat.I don’t like to party that much.
email 3
Thanks for writing to me, but unfortunately, we’re just not a good match. Good luck in your search!
Note I had used my nale inseveral of the emails I sent, but it was not used in any reply, secondly I sent nothing much other than chat to which I received no sort of reply. the typing (accurate above) does not look very human, 1st and second email have no space after the “.” whilst email 3 is propperly formatted with spaces after “,” and “.”.
This looks like a robot making the 1st 2 emails from a set of sentances (each missing the space afer the final “.” whilst the 3rd email is an automatic end of communication email with the sentances propperly formatted.
Anyone else met a robot online through [match.com](http://match.com)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/2 "2005-07-25T17:24:50Z")
_Girl_ robots! 😃
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/3 "2005-07-25T17:26:48Z")
It’s gonna be the best prom night ever!
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/4 "2005-07-25T18:08:01Z")
Now, now guys this is serious. Maybe [match.com](http://match.com) have their own email-robots to make them seem worth paying for.
(mmmm Female Robots like from Piers Antony’s Blue Adept stories mmmm)
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/5 "2005-07-25T18:11:15Z")
Seriously – I’m on Match, and the responses (if any) I get all seem to indicate an authentic level of illiteracy.
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### Author:  [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/6 "2005-07-25T18:22:56Z")
I see match \*bots… :eek:
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/7 "2005-07-25T18:32:19Z")
I think that, just maybe, you are over-estimating the literacy of the average [Match.com](http://Match.com) user. Take that for what you will 😃
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### Author:  [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/8 "2005-07-25T18:34:02Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#):
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> I see match \*bots… :eek:
Baaaad Yeti.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/9 "2005-07-25T18:45:43Z")
I do get messages from “users” who are obviously Russian or east-European mail-order bride services. I’ve never responded to them so I don’t know if they have automated response systems.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/10 "2005-07-25T18:53:59Z")
I’m not on [match.com](http://match.com) but I do get weird emails. About once a day I get an email at home and find that it’s completely blank. No sender, no receiver, no subject, and no content other than a couple of lines from my anti-virus scanner saying it passed.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/11 "2005-07-25T18:59:55Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> I’m not on [match.com](http://match.com) but I do get weird emails. About once a day I get an email at home and find that it’s completely blank. No sender, no receiver, no subject, and no content other than a couple of lines from my anti-virus scanner saying it passed.
I get those too. I now presume that they are the husks of messages whose body consisted entirely of viruses.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/12 "2005-07-25T19:52:30Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> Seriously – I’m on Match, and the responses (if any) I get all seem to indicate an authentic level of illiteracy.
Quoted for truth. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/13 "2005-07-25T20:03:53Z")
Maybe illiteracy can be blamed for many cases. Yet email 3 is far more litterate than email 1 or 2, even “we’re” is correct as is the use of commas. It is possible that an illitterate user used someone elses message for the last message, but I doubt such a person would care to do such a thing. The users profile seemed genuine enough (not giving any indication of having been written as a lure) I am gueesing this is a genuine account that has been taken over for use with an email robot.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/14 "2005-07-25T20:08:49Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#):
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> Maybe illiteracy can be blamed for many cases. Yet email 3 is far more litterate than email 1 or 2, even “we’re” is correct as is the use of commas. It is possible that an illitterate user used someone elses message for the last message, but I doubt such a person would care to do such a thing…
The last message was a canned [match.com](http://match.com) message. If one receives an email, and clicks on the “no, thanks” button, that message is one of the options.
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/15 "2005-07-25T20:17:07Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> The last message was a canned [match.com](http://match.com) message. If one receives an email, and clicks on the “no, thanks” button, that message is one of the options.
Thanks, I wondered if that was it.
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/16 "2005-07-25T20:26:20Z")
So I was rejected by a real person ☹
… well at least the fact that I had read the first 2 emails as if spoken by R. Gumby of Monty Python Flying Circus, means I’m not too heartbroken.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/17 "2005-07-25T23:02:44Z")
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[sub]**OI GOT YUR EEEEE-MAIL!..WE KIN CCCCHAT!..OI 'ONT LOIKE TO PAW-TY 'AT MUTCH!..
…MY BRAAAAIIIN HURTS!**[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/18 "2005-07-25T23:15:07Z")
I know there are prepared messages on [Match.com](http://Match.com). But I also know there are a lot of real people emailing out and about, because I got matched once with a girl I knew in high school. Imagine my surprise to find her elephant-like, shrewish face trying to smile back at me from the computer screen. \
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/19 "2005-07-26T00:24:49Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#):
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> I know there are prepared messages on [Match.com](http://Match.com). But I also know there are a lot of real people emailing out and about, because I got matched once with a girl I knew in high school. Imagine my surprise to find her elephant-like, shrewish face trying to smile back at me from the computer screen. \
Don’t diss **Biffy the Elephant Shrew** (though he is a bloke I think so obviously not your ex-school friend).
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-match-com-full-of-robots/314082/20 "2005-07-26T00:49:18Z")
I have a profile at [match.com](http://match.com). Should I be disappointed that even the robots are ignoring me?
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