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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/29/2012 6:20:42 PM

LonDom61

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OP: Like you, I prefer more content to less. I want to get a good idea of the person and how well their ideas & mine overlap. I'm also looking for the ability to express that. I'm a "get into her head" kind of Dom. The profile that lets me do that (depending on what I see when I get there) is a profile I like.

And there aren't hundreds of girls in my area to consider. So it's worth the time to read even long profiles of those whose basic details (location, age, etc) and pic interest me. Or details, even without a pic.

I also like to read others that pop up on my main page (in Canada we can't select by province. We have to scan the whole country...or use search for city/keyword.) Good as general insight.

But unlike you I don't consider "several paragraphs" did you say? as "verbose".

Mine is more like 30 paragraphs. Now THAT is verbose. More on that below the box.

When I read profiles, near zero content indicates to me that the poster won't interest me. It's an ad for you. If you can't find a few interesting things to say about yourself--and say them well--here...are you gonna be MORE interesting in person?

"Gee, I dunno what to write here. Go ahead and ask me..." Arghhh. Next.

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I will contact a woman with a great profile and no pic. I won't contact a woman with a great pic (ie hot) but no--or crappy--profile.

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ORIGINAL: xLaChienne

I'm often described as laconic. My profile is a reflection of Me.

I don't care if it is verbose or brief as long as it is a good reflection of the person writing it. Some people can be enthralling enough to want to read endless paragraphs. Others aren't. Some aren't inclined to it but are no less interesting.

My preference would be a short profile with pertinent information with thoughts and such in the journal area. I see the profile as the bait. The journals, when done well, can be the hook.

Animus and sexyred made lots of points I agree with.

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I quoted this one for a number of points.

The profile should be a reflection of the person. xLaChienne is laconic and her profile reveals that. Great. Folks know what to expect.

She mentioned verbose. Mine is...because I am. I'm a talker. So, in addition to the "lots of info about me" in the lines, the "between the lines" part is...there's a lotta lines.

Some have said x paragraphs. Others use 500 words as a benchmark. I haven't counted mine, but as a guess I'd say 6-800.

I've had a nice number of compliments on it. By women too far away to be "dropping a hankie". One said "you said it was long, but I found myself wanting to read more". They like it overall. Or some point in it. Or that it seems to give a good sense of me.

Some local/nearby too. They wrote me or at least dropped the hankie. Talking with a few of them now.

OTOH, anyone turned off by the length...just didn't read it, didn't email me and I don't know about 'em. That's one feature of having your profile do your talking. You don't see those who reject you at that stage.

But I may be losing/turning off some who I'd like to attract. The "profile as bait, journal as hook" idea is interesting (except the journal formatting is so crappy on page one; that and having to click through are friction; friction, in this case, is bad)

On my latest rewrite I did move a chunk off to the journal. May cut some more & move it there. Thanks for that LaC.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/29/2012 8:17:09 PM

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I don't have the patients to read 30 paragraphs. Everytime I see anything past maybe 3 short paragraphs, be it in the forums or in a profile, I just pass it by without eve bothering to read it. I start to get the feeling I'm back in school and reading a textbook.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/29/2012 8:43:49 PM

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i'm in the middle. i appreciate someone taking the time out to bang out a couple of paragraphs for my reading pleasure, but i would prefer to get to know you before reading your life story.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/29/2012 10:35:38 PM

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OMG...I just reread my last post....I meant patience.

Must be some kinda subconscious mind thing trying to tell me it's time to commit myself.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/29/2012 11:27:30 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: littlewonder

I don't have the patients to read 30 paragraphs. Everytime I see anything past maybe 3 short paragraphs, be it in the forums or in a profile, I just pass it by without eve bothering to read it. I start to get the feeling I'm back in school and reading a textbook.

That's the feedback I don't get in my inbox. Just here, so thanks for that.

OTOH, I've gotten 4 nice notes tonight alone on the content. Sure, one's from Australia. But one's from about 70 miles away. That's a workable distance.

Solution, I think: Cut it down. Put 2 or 3 subsections of what are now in my profile into the journal. And have, always viewable above the fold in the journal, the headings of those chunks.

Profile short enough for folks like lw. Content available for those who want to delve.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/30/2012 5:18:01 AM

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I know I have a fairly long profile, but I found that, when it was shorter, I was constantly having to rexplain things, or I was just flat out attracting the wrong sort of people. Now, with a longer, more descriptive profile, I still get a few dorks, but occasionally I get to chat with someone who is interesting, so that's cool.

I like to read longer profiles, because, to me, it feels like the person has really put some thought into things. Thought about who they are and what they want, and it ALSO might mean that they enjoy having real, involved conversations. I love to see what people think and how their thoughts come through into their lives.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/31/2012 9:15:27 AM

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One of the best profiles I've read has been three lines, two sentences long.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/31/2012 9:40:10 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: LonDom61

OP: Like you, I prefer more content to less.

I feel the same way, unless it's over romanticized, fluffy pap.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/31/2012 9:49:20 AM

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quote:

Some have said x paragraphs. Others use 500 words as a benchmark. I haven't counted mine, but as a guess I'd say 6-800.

1,027 words ( http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/countwords.shtml )

I didn't find it too long, in fact, if you were local I'd write :)

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 10/31/2012 12:56:46 PM

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Mine is 928 words with no content that I would take out. If anything I would add to it, but I think those additions would be better placed within the journal. ONTH, as LonDom said, the way the journal is formatted, it causes friction to the reader, and friction is indeed a bad thing here.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 11/2/2012 3:41:52 PM

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I like a little something to read, a sense of humour and self is important.
Not two words, but not war and peace either.
Not a rant or a whinge.
I love cerebral people, but even I have a limited tolerance for the excessively verbose. Everyone is different on what entralls them and that's a great thing.

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 11/2/2012 9:45:05 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: wulfelaw

Well I've been on the site for a while, and finally decided to peek into the forums. Contrary to what I was expecting, there are actually more quality threads than not, which pleases me. It also gives me hope that I can get some quality answers to the following question.

When perusing profiles, do you prefer seeing brief, although likely vague, descriptions of the person? Or do you prefer the more lengthy, verbose, several paragraphs of very detailed descriptions? Obviously the latter takes longer to read, and can be an annoyance if you read it all and decide to move on. However, I get exceedingly frustrated when I open a profile with little to nothing on it. (Yes, you're cute, if that pic is in fact you, but you have no content so I'm moving on...)

Thoughts?

The purpose of the profile is to tell you enough about the person to decide if you want to talk with them. If the profile is too brief to give you any sense of the person, it has little value.

If someone writes a long profile, and you are annoyed that you read it and decide to move on -- tough. It was your choice to read the profile. And if you decide to move on, why should the profile creator care about you?

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RE: Profile content... Brevity v. Verbosity - 11/3/2012 7:22:55 PM

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Quality over quantity.

I personally hold the view that a profile expresses the first foot you put forward to the people you might be interested in. If they are not attracted to it, well, obviously you're incompatible. Don't force it.

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