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ORIGINAL: Venatrix

You bloody sod.  I look like *Michael* Douglas, not Kirk.  Hmmph.

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ORIGINAL: LadyNTrainer

I'd recommend a cut and paste polite response that isn't much longer, like, "Thank you for your interest, Ma'am.  I would be open to conversing in more depth if You wish it; otherwise, please have a good day and thank you for the compliment."

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

Bollocks!  Are you saying I'm not charming?

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ORIGINAL: littlesarbonn

This has been happening to me a lot lately, and honestly I have yet to figure out how to respond to the situation, but I'll receive a one liner from a dominant woman who says something like "You sound interesting/intriguing/or whatever." Basically, they say they either liked my profile or they liked my posts (usually they don't give me enough information to even indicate which). Now, I can do the usual cheeky response and be rude, which will end up with being blocked and never having a conversation in the future (which hopefully will kill off the 100 or so responses here of the people who have the greatest one liner response that serves to insult the woman, thus leaving her to block me forever but allows someone on the boards to believe he or she is really funny because they think they're the only ones capable of coming up with an insult as a response). I've tried just opening up a conversation, which pretty much always ends up with the exact same result.

So, how do you succeed in going from the one liner to actually getting a conversation going? I've tried, "tell me about yourself please" and that gets nowhere. It's like they contact me hoping for some super subbie response, and I don't have it. Then it always leaves me thinking that I screwed up when all I did was respond to a one liner that came out of the dark.

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ORIGINAL: thetammyjo

Have you considered that they aren't interested in talking and are just contacting you because you touched something that pleased them and they thought you might like to know your words just don't disappear?

Sometimes a "I like your profile picture" or "I really enjoying reading your thoughts in the forum" is just a compliment not an invitation for anything further.

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ORIGINAL: littlesarbonn

This has been happening to me a lot lately, and honestly I have yet to figure out how to respond to the situation, but I'll receive a one liner from a dominant woman who says something like "You sound interesting/intriguing/or whatever." Basically, they say they either liked my profile or they liked my posts (usually they don't give me enough information to even indicate which). Now, I can do the usual cheeky response and be rude, which will end up with being blocked and never having a conversation in the future (which hopefully will kill off the 100 or so responses here of the people who have the greatest one liner response that serves to insult the woman, thus leaving her to block me forever but allows someone on the boards to believe he or she is really funny because they think they're the only ones capable of coming up with an insult as a response). I've tried just opening up a conversation, which pretty much always ends up with the exact same result.

So, how do you succeed in going from the one liner to actually getting a conversation going? I've tried, "tell me about yourself please" and that gets nowhere. It's like they contact me hoping for some super subbie response, and I don't have it. Then it always leaves me thinking that I screwed up when all I did was respond to a one liner that came out of the dark.