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Some have not been able to view any profiles for the last several days. Site glitch and we are awaiting a fix (12-4-2010). That is a different issue.
That could explain why, when I look to see who has viewed my profile, womaninblack is no longer there but she is still here in the forums. I enjoy seeing that smiling face even though I can't contact her if I thought to because of her mail setting criteria.
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Posted: 12/5/2010 8:07:10 PM | I do sometimes when they say something really funny. If it's a female i usually chose the option to hide my viewing to others just so they don't see it and get annoyed at me.
Why bother to hide? They aren't sorted according to when they looked but by when they were last online, anyway. Besides, I sort of collect profiles, if I like them, both men and women. Only one person has removed his when I did that, and he was actually quite nasty about me having the nerve to put him on my list! Told me I was an argumentative b*tch when I tried to explain that I didn't want or expect to meet or even correspond with him, I just liked his profile. But I do wonder how well that attitude is working for him, where he lives... | |
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Posted: 12/5/2010 9:14:13 PM | | true. I mean I don't mind myself, but I dunno, just don't want to annoy any ladies thinking "wth is some chick looking at my profile for?". lol | |
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Posted: 12/5/2010 9:22:46 PM | I don't make much of the favs list myself, it has come back to "bite me" somewhat. 
I'll get an email, you saved me to favs, and why. I'm a writer, so sometimes it's because they're also writers. Sometimes, it's a profile, when I see a new feature, and their profile comes across my radar in checking out a new feature. "Hey this is new, wonder how it works, click....". Oh may be interesting, "tag" it to email later.
Apparently, some have much more interest in the favs list and notice when a new person saves their profile.
I can't say I always scan the profiles for each thread, everytime I post. Usually I do, just a cursory scan. It usually says something, sometimes such a contrast to their online persona, I just don't post. If I do post, it's not giving away anything they would know I've scanned their profile.
As a long time member, and more frequent forum poster, it's a DUH that people may look at my profile if they're reading my posts or responding to a thread where I'm the OP. For me it's a given, I have read and seen threads where the OP's been "caught" in a stark contrast to their forum and profile persona. I don't do it, I know it's against the rules, but others usually do. I have to confess, I do get a giggle from it, it's entertaining at the least.
Given that and 793 cable channels of nothing worth watching...reality TV. Scanning the threads, looking at profiles...such much richer entertainment value than...the Gosselins, the polygamous marrieds...the dysfunctional and outrageous. Reality TV makes my trigger finger spasm..I can't click fast enough. Entertainment HERE is much richer, more outrageous, and like many others I already pay for internet access anyway.  | |
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Posted: 12/6/2010 10:01:17 AM | I don't check all, but it happens. I find when someone wants to disagree with me on a topic, they will look at my profile and then make personal attacks. Of course an artist would think crackpot things, of course a hypnotist would believe in brain science mumbo jumbo, you probably aren't even a natural red head..... and so on.
When someone posts a legit question that can be generalized to fit the larger group, I find that people will go for the personal jugular and fail to answer the question while attacking the poster for where the OP is perceived as 'coming from" based on the OP's profile. Then someone tries to ask the same question, they get blasted to do a thread search, but all the threads about that question never answer or discuss the question, it becomes one long personal attack on the OP or someone who tried to answer.
Blah, tiresome.
And I don't think I have noticed more of the short profiles. Newbies are commonly short, then the jaded become short again. I've actually been around this place since the turn of the century, if anything, the novella profile seems more common than ever, to me, especially of the forum junkies. | |
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Posted: 12/6/2010 10:42:24 AM | | LOL @bucsgirl. I know one guy who has a long faves list. He says he uses it to keep track of who he's sent contacts to. If they don't respond, he adds them so he won't make the mistake of doing it a second time. I suppose it would be more accurate to say his 'favorites' is more of an 'uppity jerks' list. | |
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Posted: 12/6/2010 7:47:20 PM |
I think most forum fishettes profiles can be boiled down to read the same.
:-P
I have got to read more women's profiles. I feel an impending attack of a minor inferiority complex approaching. | |
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Posted: 12/7/2010 9:22:52 AM | The few times I've looked at forumites' profiles it was almost always to check out their age or location to provide some context for their posts.
From time to time posters have commented on my profile in response to something I had posted. What I find hilarious is that these folks almost always viewed my profile in stealth mode before posting comments about it. Too smooth for words. | |
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Posted: 12/7/2010 10:59:10 AM | | It's not always personal, Hardwood. I do all my looking in stealth mode, mostly because I check regularly on some I know for sure are gamers and, umm, less than honest about what they say and are looking for. At least one has a history of moving in on women and they end up paying him off to get rid of him. And yet he claims to be a 'good Christian' - go figure. I've pretty much been in stealth mode since joining POF, I found quite enough nutcases the hard way on other sites - and they all seem to be here, too. | |
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Posted: 12/7/2010 12:21:59 PM |
I do all my looking in stealth mode
Ditto.
Read a thread or two asking what it means when someone looks at a profile, and you will have ample reasons to remain in perpetual stealth mode. | |
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Posted: 12/7/2010 1:34:25 PM | In regard to going in stealth: heaven forbid that someone interesting actually sees us looking and strikes up an interesting conversation :-P
I never go in stealth- if I'm looking at a profile, let 'em know lol- even the women's profiles lol- it's all in good humor
I look at posters profiles who have something interesting or especially funny or witty to contribute- there's a particular guy on here who shall remain nameless, whose mind is incredible- love reading his posts and his profile is bar none.
If he's anything in person like he is in print- holy cow lol | |
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Posted: 12/7/2010 5:23:55 PM | "there's a particular guy on here who shall remain nameless, whose mind is incredible- love reading his posts and his profile is bar none.
If he's anything in person like he is in print- holy cow lol"
sowrite, thank you for the very kind words. LOL
I couldn't resist | |
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Posted: 12/8/2010 8:58:46 AM | | My point was that if someone comments on my profile in a posting, I know for sure that they viewed it. So being "stealthy" was kind of a waste of time. | |
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Posted: 12/8/2010 10:38:20 AM |
I do sometimes when they say something really funny. If it's a female i usually chose the option to hide my viewing to others just so they don't see it and get annoyed at me.
Same sex views do not show in the "who viewed me" thingie.
~OT~ I've been in hide mode since a month after I joined. I had a rather unpleasant experience based upon my viewing someone's profile (not for any good reason other than someone asked me to view it) ~ since then? I see no reason for anyone to know I've even peeked. Another personal preference. JMO  | |
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Posted: 12/8/2010 3:34:01 PM | I too am mostly in stealth mode.
cus I check up on some forum fishies profiles more than once.
Don't want em to think I'm stalking em.
LOL
The reason is sometimes they post all extra giddy or extra snarky out of the blue.
So I recheck their page to see if there is something going on to affect their e-mood.
Also some clever fishettes change their page often and I like to read em.
Better than comics for a laugh.
But as an unofficial visual poll of POF's hottest female forum posting babes...
They seem to be on the coasts.
Or in Canada.
Just anywhere's but Texas.
I mean there are some cool and good looking women here.
(afterall it is a big state)
But few post in the forums.
Maybe they got better things to do. | |
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Posted: 12/8/2010 5:33:06 PM | I'm in stealth mode and yep, I stalk forum posters and their profiles.
I am watching you! hehehee | |
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Posted: 12/8/2010 5:56:29 PM |
Just anywhere's but Texas.
ah, yes Texas, where the men are men and the cows are nervous. 
The reason is sometimes they post all extra giddy or extra snarky out of the blue.
So I recheck their page to see if there is something going on to affect their e-mood.
you mean beside a full moon or a shoe sale? | |
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Posted: 12/10/2010 6:07:35 PM | I occasionally check profiles to get more information. For instance, I'll sometimes be curious about a poster's age. I've been shocked at the number of times I've thought, well, this person must be very young, immature, and inexperienced, only to check their profile and find out they are in their 40s or 50s!
As for short profiles - I don't know about that. Maybe there are more of them recently. I didn't notice them in the past but yes, I do notice that. I'm often contacted by men who have little or no information about themselves, no photo. Sorry, guys, it doesn't cut it.
<div class='quote'>LOL @bucsgirl. I know one guy who has a long faves list. He says he uses it to keep track of who he's sent contacts to. If they don't respond, he adds them so he won't make the mistake of doing it a second time. I suppose it would be more accurate to say his 'favorites' is more of an 'uppity jerks' list.
Or a "never mind, don't bother them again" list.
http://www.plentyoffish.com/member15895920.htm
Hilarious! | |
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Posted: 12/11/2010 6:33:33 PM | Sure do.
Read forumites (some) profiles, that is.
Matters not if male or female.
It's entertainment.
Yes, without a doubt forumites have much more interesting/entertaining profiles than the normal joe/jane.
I think 85% of them (joes and janes) have looked over each others shoulders so they can all write their profiles as close to each others words as possible. | |
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Posted: 7/18/2012 12:30:55 AM | I love looking at forumites' profiles. And I didn't know you could hide that you looked...
Hmmmmmmmm.
I have a few favorite posters that I check on every so often--especially if there is a new picture, or if their status seems to have changed.
People are interesting. | |
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Posted: 7/18/2012 3:27:03 AM | I often read the profiles of other posters to gain a better understanding of what kind of person they are.
I also always make a point of checking out the profiles of the forum trolls to make sure that they don't live in my area so that I don't risk getting involved with them. | |
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Posted: 7/18/2012 5:05:44 AM | I check out profiles of folks I like & dislike- if I feel neutral, I don't really look. I email many of the folks I like if their mail settings allow 4 it :0)
Up until recently, my ad was longer, but another regular- a handsome man south of me- had posted when a woman's profile is too long, it indicates they are...I think he said immature or hystrionic, or something to that affect...so I chopped off much of it. I change mine around when the mood strikes. I am not on POF to find anyone, basically here 4 the forums!
Short profiles? Men look at pics, as another poster suggests...also everything is so trite after a while...yes I admit to being jaded w/ online in general...and I've already graduated to cat lady status, but there is another thread for the prejudices re: cat ladies. I feel like a sexy cat lady, not a frumpy one!
As far as trolls- yes we have some- as well as "sock puppets"- IMO most sock puppets have no pics...my experiences tell me to avoid profiles w/ no pics...I am sure there are a few posters who have no pic that r legit, but sorry, I tend to go w/ the odds...
Sometimes we exchange notes and gossipy comments with some of the veterans, who's posts I enjoy and who don't suffer from terminal seriousness. Some I wish they lived closer, it would be a blast to hang out with...
What I have noticed while scanning through old threads (I get bored, okay) is that some of the long term folk on here have changed over the years. One in particular, that I usually disagree with, it turns out that when she first came on here 5 or so years ago her postings were warmer, had more hope, showed an interest in finding a partner. Now she comes across as cold and negative about anything to do with dating or relationships. Is this what years of rejection and rejecting does to a person? Do they turn into "Future Cat Ladies In Waiting" as Straycat so quaintly put it? Do we all get bored or dejected from dating and turn to the forums as our form of entertainment or contact with the outside world? Agree, I think many people have the "bloom off the rose" ...doesn't mean they r a bad person or not relationship material- I could be the person Welshie is posting about, but I do not view myself as "cold", just no patience for the drama & ridiculousness that I encountered inthe past...been there, done that, hated it!
I don't consider that I'm bitter or jaded, just realistic
maybe they'll get a cat.
a stray cat maybe.
:-P
If I have a good kitty, they get to sleep on my bed!
I don't like the no pic thing either, not too many of us would date someone that didn't have a pic. Unless you're a public figure, on the run from the police/your husband/your wife - why not post a picture. If you're going to post on the forums why not be up front and show your face - it seems like you're hiding something by not having a pic.
angels can fly because they take themselves lightly
I remember one guy on here who I seriously thought had an anger management problem coming through in his posts. Curious, I checked out his profile only to find that he emphasized how he enjoyed being friendly to people. I recall one like that years ago-seemed sociopathic!
What can I say, what great free entertainment! :0D | |
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Posted: 7/18/2012 9:32:59 AM | I like reading profiles and do it on a regular basis.
But, I change my writing often on mine. Somtimes I just delete the whole thing and start from scratch with what I write on it.
I do find Im attracted to some of the regular guys on the forums. Maybe its because the forums give more insight to their whole personality??? The mind attracts me much more than hard biceps.
I have noticed that many profiles are one liners. Maybe they are like me.. dont see the point of keeping it long?
But I like this thread. Good job.
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Posted: 7/18/2012 11:18:41 AM | Hmmmm......based on Blonde Angel's post, msg. 73, combined with another thread.........
I am a "non-virgin-camel-sock puppet"! What more could a guy want???
I read the profiles of forumites....... | |
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