I know within seconds if Chemistry will work. It’s amazing actually when I step back how cool it is when it happens.

My biggest problem with dating sites is lack of potentials I don't live in a highly populated area, so not lots of singles, and almost never any compatible with my quirks.

I voted "Other."

What I dislike about most dating sites is the imbalance in the way interactions occur. Given the example of a nice guy and a nice girl who are compatible and looking for each other, here's what happens more often than not:

The woman creates a compelling bio that tells her story and sells her as the nice girl that she is, like so many other bios. The douche brigade (men who are after one thing and one thing only) flood her inbox with stupid shirtless pictures, dick pics and pleas for sexual favors, leaving her jaded and overwhelmed to the point that she can't answer every query and a good number of them are deleted without even being read. See, the douche brigade knows that if they send 100 messages, there's a chance they might get a response and maybe even meet some seedy woman who wants nothing but sex, so they persist, relentlessly.

Of course, she'll read and answer some that appear to be different, but many of those switch into douche mode after she responds, further compounding her frustration. This makes her wary of even the nicest and most promising sounding messages that some well-meaning nice guy might send.

Now, the nice guy tired of looking at profiles of scantily clad women who seem to be selling sex but complain in their profiles about men who only want one thing, sends her a message, hoping to have it lead to coffee or lunch or something non-threatening in the hopes of getting to know the nice girl. He is jaded because, over the course of several weeks or months, he has sent messages to a few promising profiles who seem to be exceptions, and crickets chirping... No responses.

I have formed this view over the course of several years of discussing it with men and women have been there, and who all seem to agree that this is an accurate picture of the online dating landscape.

I asked out a girl that I had known for about 2 months to dinner and it was awkward. A few days before asking her out, she had said she did not have any plans for that Saturday. When I asked her face-to-face if she wanted to have dinner, she said "I don't know." I didn't say anything because I was dumbfounded by that answer, or lack thereof. She then said "I don't know. Let me check my phone. I might have plans." She checks her phone and again said "I don't know." I'm thinking "How do you not know if you have plans? You just looked at your phone to check. Either you have plans or not." What I said was "Ok, well let me know when you do" and left just confused and hurt.

I always prepare myself for a "No" answer when asking someone out, but I was not expecting an "I don't know." I knew she was saying that to spare my feelings from being hurt and didn't want to go out, but it definitely hurt worse because I had not prepared myself for that. I ended up texting her 3 days later on Friday (the day before my propsed date) to ask if she wanted to go out. She said she had plans. :/

Well, honesty may not be kind. Sometimes brutality can help a person to change!

1. Unsolicited dick pics.
2. Religious people messaging me to convert me (after getting a free fucking, of course)
3. Incels. One of my brother in law's is one. He's literally the worst person I know.

Guess I have been screwed over so many times that I just no longer care. I hope to find Mr. Right but not going stress over it.

That I don't get replies

My problem besides the scammers and fakers is on-line dating never allows anyone to really know who I am. It is hard to project one's true personality through the Internet even if you fill out all of the forms and questionnaires no one can know the real me. I am sure many women encounter people who misrepresent themselves and it create an air of caution that I completely understand. This doesn't help me to convey who I am and the fact that I am not out there to do anyone any harm. There probably isn't an answer to my issue. Hopefully someone will trust me and give me enough time to learn who I am.

I have never made it that far. I get a like, then no response.

No vote, I don't get polled by strangers.

I hate that nothing local is good. I gotta hit up a different site for pickups.

I'm not sure which is worse, being told some bullshit or just being ignored when you attempt to communicate.

There's a few things I don't like. Firstly, and I can only do this from a bloke's point of view, most women have a huge list of what they don't like, which would seem to eliminate everyone. 99% don't have the manners to just say 'No thanks' if you initiate contact and lastly it appears to be solely down to looks.

Scammers