But is it literally the worst? 
I had the same thing happen. I woulda thought targeted adds and targeted replies where people who actually had interests, desires, and goals in common would work.
But no, I actually had better luck chatting up random people on the internet. Go figure. It was like the people that had dating ads weren’t actually interested in dating and random people not explicitly looking for dates were interested in dating.
AndI still recall this one ad. This woman had extremely specific demands. And a fair number of them. I can’t imagine many people actually passed all the tests. I actually did. Yet, still no response from her. That ad was up for years.
Maybe she just wasn’t that into you? You can like somebody’s profile and they might not like yours back. Or maybe they don’t like your photos. Or how tall you are. Or that you make too little or too much money. Or that you said you want kids when she doesn’t. Or that you said you’re an atheist while she’s a Christian. Or that you answered that one OKC question that asks if someone is ever required to have to have sex with you with “yes.” Or maybe she wants you to smoke and you don’t. Or maybe you do smoke and she thinks that’s icky. Maybe you said you have dogs and hate cats, but she hates dogs and loves cats. Maybe your main profile picture is you shirtless in a mirror wearing a fedora and she can’t stop laughing at how utterly ridiculous that is long enough to message you back. Maybe she was weirded out when you answered the “What do you think of hopeless, unrequited love is?” with “Romantic.” Maybe she is turned off that you’ve got women and booze in every profile picture. Hell, maybe she’s turned off that you don’t have women and booze in every profile picture.
My point is: I don’t respond to every guy who messages me either. In my inbox as we speak, I have 30 messages since December 28th. First thing I do is weed out the creepers (and post them on the blog). Then, with the handful of nice messages left, I go to their profiles and read, I look at their pictures, and I read some of their questions. In my head, I give a guy three “flags” before I close out on his profile-- but if there are three things I’m not digging, I close it and don’t respond to his message. Perhaps that’s bitchy of me, but I’m also not required to find every guy who hits on me attractive and worthy of dating.
And that, friends, is why I’ll be forever alone. 
That’s generous, not bitchy! Arbitrary, but generous.
Uhhh, I sent replies to women that had what I wanted and I WAS what they claimed they wanted. And I think thats basically what I wrote too. You make it sound like I was sending random shit to anybody with a pulse.
Maybe they didn’t like how you looked.
The thing is that if she had posted such a long list of things that were deal breakers, then she presumably was pretty picky about what she wanted. And that means there were probably other criteria she hadn’t posted. You may have passed on the twenty items she listed but failed to meet her standards because your ears were too big or you were wearing the wrong kind of shirt or she didn’t like the way you punctuated your email.
Could be. But trust me, I tried all sorts of variations on what I sent and how I sent it. Serious pics, no pics, funny pics. The same with the responses. Serious ones, funny ones, long ones short ones blah blah blah. I wasn’t sending the same tired thing to everyone.
Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t expect a marriage proposal from every thing I sent out. But, geez, the reply rate was absolutely appalling.
Now, IMO this is the kicker though. So far, you could just say, damn Bill you must be one ugly weird ass looser (which is probably true).
However, like I noted, what worked much much better was chatting up random people in random chat rooms. THATS the part I find weird.
I’m not saying you did that at all. Again, I get plenty of messages from nice guys that are polite, respectful, and genuinely trying to engage conversation based on what’s in my profile. I am still allowed to not be into them. We might be perfect on paper, but if I’m not attracted to you, I’m not attracted to you. We might agree on everything seemingly, but then I go to your profile and it says you have kids-- that’s a deal breaker for me. Stuff like that was my point.
I haven’t been in chat rooms since I was a young teenager, but a chat room isn’t going to have a profile with all over your physical and romantic information, along with pictures, there and ready to access.
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima;15850921 I am still allowed to not be into them. [/QUOTE]
:rolleyes:
I don’t get it. Why is that worthy of an eye roll? Should I have to have an attraction with every man who earnestly messages me on a dating site or something?
The one lady and I exchanged knee pictures.
as far as the worst ever? I’ve had better success online than IRL. But I’m also painfully shy, so it’s hard to say “hi” in real life until I know you.
I had a guy write to me on OKCupid to ask me if I was into AB/DL like he was. I’m no sexual prude, but if I have to consult reference materials to understand your sexual interests, then I’m probably not interested.
Well, I had to Google that and now I regret it.
It’s becoming more and more clear as to why they don’t reply back. Looks like they’re dodging a bullet from “angry nice guy” too.
You said what I was thinking, Floaty. Speaking of the Nice Guys of OKC, have you seen this blog? It cracks me up endlessly. (And no, that is not my blog. Even I can only pimp myself so many times in one thread before I lose all semblance of dignity).
I would say that once per page is a pretty safe amount to pimp yourself out and still keep what dignity you began with.
Also, I have politely and respectfully interacted with you. Have sex with me now.
I hear I have an obligation, since you were so kind and nice to me. Dive right in, bro. Oh, please stay off the Obama shirt though, ok?
Dive right in? An unfortunate choice of words? 
I mean what I said and I said what I mean.