why can't there be an online dating site that isn't super cheesy?

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not clever.  you don't stand a chance of admittance into my exclusive site.

should I ever sneak back into GAF my nick will be "subversivelyremunerable".  clever.  that is why I will let myself into my exclusive site.

[Powerslave]

i am straight up clever mayne, and I dont need your site, or whatever you were talking about. get back to being random mayne.

[recursivelyenumerable]

this is my favorite thread of any I've ever started.  I'm going places.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

baby, will you be mine for today = n and n = (n+1)

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do I get into your exclusive site

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[tiesto]

I'd settle for an online site that bans fatties and girls with kids.

[recursivelyenumerable]

After a bit more thought, I'm thinking of taking a quasi-Marxist-Leninist angle on this.  We're not just elitist snobs, we're elitist snobs of the people; we are the vanguard who will eventually lead the entire population into the promised land of culturally enlightened mating practices, but for the time being we need to limit our membership to an elite, ideologically pure few so as to resist deviationist tendencies.

but not explicitly Marxist-Leninist as that would limit membership way too much

[CajoleJuice]

yes why is no one catering to our demographic?

where is "america's top shut in"?

i don't know why, but this just got me

[Mupepe]

I'd settle for an online site that bans fatties and girls with kids.

hey what the fuck

[recursivelyenumerable]

This is the most brilliant idea since the last brilliant idea I had.  God bless quadruple espresso.

[elektrikluv]

I am so joining if you take the Marxist/Leninist angle!

It probably won't get you many members though...

[recursivelyenumerable]

cool!  so out of a sample size of 5 or so women on eb, 20% expressed interest in joining.
we can extrapolate from there to deduce that when the site opens its doors to the world, approximately 6 billion / 2 * 20% = 600 million women will apply.
of course the vast majority will have to be turned away pending ideological maturity.

but I'm worried about gender balance since me and Patel constitute less than 1% of the male population I think =(
come on we need more men!

[Eric P]

i'm in a relationship but i'll play that whole "unattainable" angle so you guys can get my detritus

[pilonv1]

I like the idea of a dating site for smart people.

also @ americas top shut in

[Vyer]

A friend of mine came by work depressed a while back.  Turns out he had tried to sign up for an online matchmaking site and got the 'can't find you a match' answer or something.  Yup, he was rejected by eHarmony.

He didn't know about how infamous that site is for that or why it tends to happen. 

So we didn't tell him.  For like three days.

I did make a joke, though, along the lines of 'well now it's kind of like it's been scientifically proven that you will die alone.'

He didn't think it was funny.

[pilonv1]

whats the deal with eHarmony? why is it infamous?

[Don Flamenco]

You just have to turn "hikikomori" into a term of endearment in the U.S., like what happened with "otaku." 

[Eric P]

whats the deal with eHarmony? why is it infamous?

it's very skewed to religious conservatives, if i recall correctly

wiki has more

Once consumers sign up for a one-month trial, eHarmony continues charging month after month. Consumers who think they are signing up for one month are finding they will continue to be charged and eHarmony will not refund the extra months charged to consumers. Other negative comments in various web forums include:

    * The procedure to unsubscribe as a paying member is complex and leads to errors or undesired credit card charges. Some complain the procedure is unfair or misleading.[16]
    * Various problems relating to the matching mechanism used, such as:[17]
          o Matches cannot be filtered by user-defined criteria. For example users cannot require that all matches contain a picture.
          o The only power the user has is to look at the matches brought up by the matching system and pursue or reject them. Therefore a significant amount of trust in the psychological matching system is needed to justify the service.
          o Failure to provide same- sex matching options
    * After answering a 258 question profile, they are rejected without explanation. A public statement from eHarmony claims that the reasons for rejection are usually because of three factors:[18]
          o They are already married (30%);
          o They are under the minimum age of 21 (27%);
          o They provide inconsistent answers during the profile (9%)
          o 34% of rejections are unexplained.
    * Consumers have difficulty finding the company's phone number (1-800-263-6133) to speak to a live representative.
    * The interface for managing matches is limited. Matches that either party has closed are not removed but remain in the list, which can only be ordered by date of match. Managing matches is more time consuming than necessary.

eHarmony states that it has "19 million registered members."[citation needed] However, they do not state how many or what percentage of those members are active members, the term for accounts that frequently participate in any way in the any activities of the site.[citation needed]

[DJ_Tet]

 34% of rejections are unexplained.




Both my gf and I were rejected from eHarmony.  All I can say is thank god!

[tiesto]

Fuck, I just found out from the girl I liked (the one with the health problems) that she felt no chemistry between the two of us... which concerns my worst fear - that I am a quiet, type-B personality, not dominating at all, pretty much doomed to the bottom of the barrel as far as dating goes.  And what she said that hurt more, is that her friends wouldn't go for me either, and I would be best with a shy girl or something. Shy girls frustrate me...

Although, speaking of smart girls, a Russian Jew doctor emailed me the other day. She's got a bit of meat on her, but she isn't that big or anything, I'll email her back I think, but I have a feeling she is gonna shit-test me till kingdom come.

You guys ever go to gk2gk.com, Geek 2 Geek? It's a site for geeks to hook up, or something... I was browsing through the profiles on there, and the girls were HIDEOUS, out of 100 I looked at there was about 1 that was decent looking. My ex girlfriend was on there too, and she is one of the better looking ones on the site... (in real life she is rather plain, although she has probably played more RPGs than you if you're into that)

I had an eHarmony account, they kept matching me up with really boring girls that I had very little in common with. A lot of them would close me off (usually when they saw my picture, I'm not that attractive  ) It's too expensive, and I would rather meet people on Match, where I don't have to go through the step process and can usually see what a girl looks like right away, even though the idea of breaking down chemistry to a numbers and algorithm game is interesting to me.

Next up is me trying chemistry.com I think.

[Eric P]

learn to DJ then get all the hot raver chicks

note, this didn't actually work for me, but i've seen it work for many many others

[tiesto]

learn to DJ then get all the hot raver chicks

note, this didn't actually work for me, but i've seen it work for many many others

Well,  I always hint that I have played at house parties and make my own mixes, but none of the girls I meet seem to give a shit about EDM. 

Actually speaking of which, I am pretty curious if you've ever heard any of my mixes? Most of them are on a commercial house/electro-house tip, but since you've been DJing for a while, I'd be curious to what you think of the technical aspects and structure. http://www.duky.org/mixes.html is the site and the farther you go down, the better the mixing is

[Eric P]

looking over your track listing i should shoot you some of the tracks i've collected over the past year which i think would slot in perfectly with your sounds.

[Eric P]

oh and did you see that Erol Alkan is coming to NYC?

[recursivelyenumerable]

please don't turn my one-of-a-kind once-in-a-lifetime classic thread into a generic girl problems thread 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

What is the status of the Marxist-Leninist dating site?

[recursivelyenumerable]

It's kinda on hold while I try to help my dog not die.