Eye'm the cutest!
Wait wait wait, girls speak like Torgo on the Internet?
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
The Wanderer
How do you do online dating anyway?
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Hmm, I found one girl who seems pretty cool and shot a message her way, guess I'll see what happens. Least she's not some foul chola monstrosity like most of them, and she likes to game.
Same way you do any other long-distance relationship. You use chat rooms, instant messaging, or email to get to know a person, maybe call them on skype when you feel more comfortable together (if you both have cams you can see how they look then more reliably than pics), see if you're a good personality fit and, if it all works out really well, make plans to move near each other and give it a go in person.
BTW, I'm a chick.
Not Actually Indie
What dating site are you using? Some will probably do a better job at filtering the kinds of people you're likely to be attracted to than others, but I can attest that there are intelligent girls in online dating if you know where to look for them.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
Plenty Of Fish, I dabbled in it a while back, but ended up leaving it dormant for a while.
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I look into that a while back, not joy in my case...then again I did get rejected from Eharmony.
edited 4th Dec '10 6:29:58 PM by Kino
Not Actually Indie
I took a look at plentyoffish, and I can't say I got good vibes from it. The pushy tone and poor writing fluency don't give me a great deal of confidence that they know what they're talking about when they say
"We will tell you what you need in a relationship, where you screwed up (with out knowing it) in past relationships and a customized action plan to make your next relationship successful."
Personally, I've had pretty good experiences with Ok Cupid, although I haven't used the services of other sites to do an in-depth comparison. Also, while it's purely anecdotal, among the most intelligent people I've talked to, those who have admitted to using online dating services, have all used that site.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
MASTER-DEBATER
>>Least she's not some foul chola monstrosity like most of them, and she likes to game.
- looks up chola*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
(i didnt notice chola being the female version of 'cholo')
WHASSUP....... ....with lolis!
Happy New Year!
I'm on OK Cupid, but as I told my girl it's strictly for the on line quizzes
o-o
OP: Maybe those girls who spell like that are Gamzee. :P
Also, Necromancy, woah!
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Actual Wrestling Legend
Online dating is hopeless here. Too much ground to cover.
Also, the profiles all list a fetish for "crisp, clean baseball caps". And a puffy jacket, I wager.
I'm a skeptical squirrel
Yeah, tried pof for a while... no decent looking chicks in my area. Damn site kept matching with chicks in fuckin' Canada. I ain't going to friggin' Canada for a chick.
The tried okcupid with no success. I'd be chatting with a chick and then she'd utterly stop replying. So after a few months I deleted my profile.
Fuck it, I say.
Despite tons of fail being on dating sites consisting of hood rat gangster chicks, I actually met the gal I had one of my best relationships with online. She was a Sea Bee at the base two blocks from me, though she had just as many frustrations with the online experience as I did before we met eachother.
Barkey is is wuv.
Crazy Kiwi
I've met a number of people through on-line dating. Some have turned out to be good friends, a couple more than that. Most didn't make it to the first date, let alone past.
It's an assortment of "mixed nuts" on those sites. Some of the ads/profiles are cringe-worthy but then, I don't have to message the ones who can't form a coherent sentence.
I find them good in that you at least know that the people you encounter are indeed looking for someone. Much better than meeting someone at a random social event and wondering if they are a) available, b) even interested in meeting someone and c) even remotely compatible.
You can weed out a lot through those sites.
It also enables me to put the fact that I'm polyamorous up front without having to work out how to bring it into the conversation. That alone limits the responses I get to those who are either polyamorous or incapable of reading. (and the latter get weeded out very quickly).
^^
Nah, she PCS'd and we moved on. I'm dating a bitter and divorced Air Force wife now. 
If anyone actually works out how to do online dating please let me know. The last time I joined a website I ended up with one date. The woman told me at the end she didn't think I was interested in her because I didn't ask her enough questions about her life.
I thought telling other people about your life in a conversation was what you did.
"Well, it's a lifestyle"
Women seem to have a tendency to want you to pry everything out of them on a first date, don't know why they always have to be so damn difficult sometimes.
Alpha Legionnaire
Which makes them even more interesting. 
^
Good luck with that, I'll enjoy my not-so-mysterious girlfriend who doesn't make me dig for basic information. Conversation has always just sort of naturally flowed for us.
Barkey, if I may be honest, if it has a pussy and it needs a dating website, something is off.
And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?
And my other issue with dating sites is my ostensible lack of beer goggles. I've seen ugly chicks that I figured might be fuckable if I was drunk enough.
5 jagerbombs (the real kind, where you drop a shot of jager into a glass of beer), 3 shots (tequila, So Co, and then Jim Beam) and two white russians later...
They still didn't look good.
So thus, if a chick looks like a beast on there, they ain't ever gonna look better to me.
edited 28th Jun '11 8:02:24 PM by MarkVonLewis
So what with being deployed and all, I'm scoping out online dating just for kicks.
What's with all these obnoxious chicks who Sp E Ll eVEryThINg lIkE T Hi S?!/! And all the fucking netspeak? I guess intelligent girls with a grasp of grammar don't date online.