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No Response is a Response?


Rude.
  19% (17)
Accepted Etiquette.
  51% (44)
Both.
  29% (25)


Total Votes : 86
(last vote on : 10/22/2008 1:33:54 PM)
(Poll ended: 10/31/2008 12:00:00 AM)
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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/13/2008 3:07:44 PM   
sambamanslilgirl


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Status: offline 		not responding saves on reading "you're fat" to "why? don't you see we're made for each other?" responses.  i get tired of explaining the many whys i'm not compatible with someone else - one of them is quite obvious and it's clearly stated on my profile. however no one ever reads anymore.

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/13/2008 3:39:25 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: HandSolo

I fried long ago. The Cunning Plan is in action, but I forgot one important detail, which I'll reveal once TCP matures.



Oh, I have such a thing for acronyms! ::puddles::

Crap.



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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/13/2008 3:57:46 PM   
osocurious


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Status: offline 		I replied with "Both" because it seems to me that "responding" or "NOT responding to messages ..  depends on too many things to just be a cut and dry "acceptable" or "rude"
But after reading some of the stronger ( and highly entertaining ) views .. now ..
I just feel wishy washy   

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/13/2008 4:12:07 PM   
Lordandmaster


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Status: offline 		I voted for "both," but no response is NOT a response.  A response is a response.  No response means either (1) "I can't be bothered to respond to you" or (2) "I never got your e-mail."  No way to tell.

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 7:51:31 AM   
cloudboy


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quote:

No response means either (1) "I can't be bothered to respond to you" or (2) "I never got your e-mail." No way to tell.


Yes, that is the joy of "no response."

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 9:19:00 AM   
puppen


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Status: offline 		I try to respond to everyone...

However, I'm not the most polite response.  It's probably better to get nothing from me.

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 2:50:25 PM   
HandSolo


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Status: offline 		Heh. Speaking of which, I was doing some reading around on the topic, and found, in some other threads on other fora, a surprising number of people who preferred to receive no response. They viewed the message as a false alarm.

I got a message back from gumdropnipples69! No way!





Wait a minute...

Nevermind.


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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 2:51:48 PM   
HandSolo


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quote:

ORIGINAL: BitaTruble

quote:

ORIGINAL: HandSolo

I fried long ago. The Cunning Plan is in action, but I forgot one important detail, which I'll reveal once TCP matures.



Oh, I have such a thing for acronyms! ::puddles::

Crap.




You probably don't want to work for the pharmaceuticals industry. You'd dehydrate, or at least end up stuck to a chair.


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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 3:07:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		I always try to get back to a person who has sent a message; but, when a thread has run it's course....

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 3:30:13 PM   
Raechard


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Status: offline 		People should not stress themselves over the things they have no control over.

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 3:36:21 PM   
tornaway


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     As long as contacts sound sincere and respectful - then yes ,  I do believe a response of some kind is in order , even if only to say no thank you . 
 
     As for the rest -  anything goes , depending on my mood  !     

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 5:15:11 PM   
LookieNoNookie


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quote:

ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

Write to strangers, and you run the risk of being junk mail.  Suck it up, snowflake!


Bingo.

(YEAH !!! Snowflake!!!!)

(That felt good...I may actually do that again).

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 9:30:50 PM   
Icarys


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< Message edited by Icarys -- 10/14/2008 9:38:57 PM >

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 9:32:54 PM   
Icarys


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ORIGINAL: osocurious

I replied with "Both" because it seems to me that "responding" or "NOT responding to messages ..  depends on too many things to just be a cut and dry "acceptable" or "rude"
But after reading some of the stronger ( and highly entertaining ) views .. now ..
I just feel wishy washy   




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submission - the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness - the state of being submissive or compliant; meekness.

Alaska Bound-The Official Countdown Has Started!
http://tinyurl.com/872mcu3
http://alturl.com/mog7m

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/14/2008 9:53:41 PM   
detoxxx


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Status: offline 		Depends if it is a copy and paste message that has obviously been sent to anything with a pulse...or if it is a nicely written message

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/16/2008 2:14:17 PM   
AMaster


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Status: offline 		RUDE!

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/16/2008 2:21:30 PM   
LinnaeaBorealis


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quote:

ORIGINAL: AMaster

RUDE!


Thank you very much. 

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/21/2008 9:27:59 AM   
HandSolo


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quote:

ORIGINAL: Icarys

*wonders what it would look like without "both" as a choice* 


I tried. The aforementioned Cunning Plan was to post the same question on a more general board, with a ton more traffic. As far as I can tell, it's a settled issue. On a board with easily 10x the volume of CM, on an off-topic forum full of dating chatter, there were 19 poll votes in a week. Two "rude" seventeen "etiquette." A fraction shy of 90%.

I'd link it here, but I forgot when starting the poll, that I had used my public Internet ID, which I would rather not "out."


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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/21/2008 9:44:51 AM   
girlivy


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Status: offline 		I didn't vote.. So that mean i voted really?  Define rude and proper ediquette please.
I did not vote because for me it greatly varies on the email itself. I do my best to respond to most, if not all emails.
The  response equates to the "tone" of the email, and to ones profile (i do read them first before responding) 
If i feel it is honest and sincere, i will respond the like. If i feel it is not, again, i use my better judgement. At times i will reply with a scartistic comment, or perhaps with no response.
Cheers!

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RE: No Response is a Response? - 10/21/2008 10:44:19 AM   
HandSolo


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quote:

ORIGINAL: girlivy

I didn't vote.. So that mean i voted really?


It means you voted "there is not an acceptable answer available."

quote:

ORIGINAL: girlivyDefine rude and proper ediquette please.


"Rude" would mean it is unacceptable to not respond to a first message on a dating site, to do such would be an insult, or at least insensitive to the sender.

"Etiquette" would mean that it is understood that receiving no response to a first message is the functional equivalent of a "no thanks," and would not reflect negatively on the recipient or sender of the message.

"Both" would basically mean one agrees with the second premise, on the basis of it being a consensus, but considers it uncivil.


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