I’m not saying that just on our 99 OkC match percentage, but what I’ve also gathered from what sample I’ve read of your nearly 12,000 posts on the SDMB. I am not saying we’re the same person. I don’t even have 2,000 posts, for example.
Having not looked at more than a couple other guys profiles, is it actually common for guys to list a range with equal years above and below their age?
By an overwhelming majority the women’s profiles I’ve viewed are skewed to be more accepting of men older than they are.
You’ve actually read most of those? I’m so terribly sorry. 
Actually, I don’t think you’ve ever argued that position with me before. What a 99% match doesn’t mean, and what you’ve argued, is it doesn’t necessarily mean we would be a good couple, which I don’t contest.
We all agree that OkC’s matching algorithm isn’t super scientific. One thing it is good at is finding dealbreakers, red flags, and general disagreements. This is why smart people read unacceptable answers first. Whenever I see a woman with a low enemy percentage, I know it’s highly unlikely she’s answered a lot of questions.
You and I have nearly 1600 questions in common, yet our enemy percentage is in the single digits. The only person I know with more questions in common with me is our very own Mauvaise and her enemy percentage is over double ours.
Ironically, the more questions we’ve answered, our match and friend percentages have gone up and our enemy percentage has gone down. Given our nearly 1600 questions in common, our 99% match, and our 8% enemy, I think it indicates we do agree on most things.
That’s because I’m a contentious bitch.
Yeah, but Guns likes to disagree, so if there’s anything that can be remotely construed as a difference of opinion, she’ll suss it out. So arguing with her isn’t necessarily evidence one way or the other.
I’m sure she’ll be in soon to dispute that.
I heartily guarantee you that there are more than 1,600 things in the world. The fact that you don’t understand why I’m getting progressively more annoyed every time you bring this up is kind of a case in point.
You’re wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Also stupid. And I hate you. And you smell bad.
I am presently dating a lady who finally responded to me after the third letter sent on Plenty of Fish.
Whenever a relationship became intimate I would delete my profile until the relationship ran its course. I would then repopulate the profile and select some new pictures. This one girl had a very captivating smile and I would send a letter of introduction (not mentioning the others) every time I got my profile back on.
Each letter was a little different. One talked about fun hobbies, another my professional aspirations, another was funny & flirty. She finally responded to the third letter and we are now in an exclusive committed intimate relationship.
I wondered if she remembered the previous two letters she didn’t answer and she laughed and said, "Yes you were persistent’. She is a natural beauty and gets bombarded with letters (20x day) but apparently on that day and that letter I managed to catch her attention.
So I would say don’t over-do it. Every so often change things up on your profile and re-send another letter totally different than anything prior sent. …and whatever you do, don’t refer back and say, “I sent you other letters you never answered…”
Good luck!
Pesse (It’s a jungle out there.) Mist
Awesome! Nice to see another happy ending.
Just goes to show that persistence does pay! Unless, you know. It just gets old 
Yup, there’s definitely a right way to do persistence and a wrong way. **Pessemist **is a really good example of the right way: not mailing too frequently, not whining about the lack of previous replies, changing up the message so it’s not just a form letter over and over.
So you’re saying my Mad Libs style message is the wrong approach then? But I can send the same thing to, like, 50 people a day and only have to change like 3 words.
[sarcasm]I tried to set up a script so I could just plug their names into a database and it would populate the blanks and fire off the messages…didn’t work out so well[/sarcasm]
Hi Amber3993, would you like to see my bicycle or come over and watch a linoleum some year? Thanks for reading my shoe. Have a nice dusk, Joe
Bwaha.
There was an entry at The Annals of Online Dating that was a form letter like that, where the guy had clearly forgotten to actually plug in a word and just told the woman, “You have a beautiful.”
That reminds me - thanks for posting that link. I read the entire 30+ pages over a couple days (my boss thanks you for my extreme lack of productivity, by the way). I laughed, I cried, I bookmarked the page.
Somewhere waaaay upthread (I think it was this thread) someone told us about how he deleted his profile out of frustration and just for kicks replaced it with all meta type stuff “This is the place where I would put something really clever about how I like to laugh about funny things” etc… It ended up working.
Maybe she had a beautiful period–ever think of that?
It’s hard to imagine, but it’s possible that her menstruation was awe-inspiring, and people flocked from all around the country just to watch having her period.
On my list of mental images not to have in the morning, that ranks pretty high up.
Ohh, and I just got done warming up my lunch.
1.) Then it should have been, “You have a beautiful ..”
2.) Even then, you’d be an idiot for abbreviating “menstrual period” as a punctuation mark.
3.) YES, I ENJOY SUCKING THE FUN OUT OF EVERYTHING. I’M A FUN-SUCKER.
I got your fun right here, lady.
I imagine having “fun sucker” on your dating profile would really ramp up the replies. 
Bri2k