The Match Questions really, really need a personal comment area that gets linked to your own profile and shows up everytime someone else views your public answer via that section on your profile. Yes, I know you can comment on them via their own threads on the forums but it would be great to see your own comments for ones that really stand out as being completely ludicrous or even ones that definitely need a lot of explanation.

Give me another month or so and I am sure I can come up with at least two dozen other suggestions for things that are sorely lacking on this site that would help immensely (if only for my own personal amusement).

I never noticed this section even existed until yesterday. It's seemingly innocuous until you get to the 'Star Ratings' section. Oh my! I have about 15 'Star Ratings' and 14 of them have given me 1 lonely star.

1 star is like the absolute worst because it really just says that your (my, you get the point, using generalities) profile is so terrible that the person saw fit to not even go the extra mile to give you 2 stars. At least with 2 stars there is an assumption that maybe you just don't quite gel together and that's cool. 2 stars says "You aren't necessarily my type but at least you are literate and have made an effort".

But 1 star. Oh boy. 1 star is like blocking material. And while I have already blocked about 5 people from my profile due to their 'eloquent' messages to me (examples: "omg U r so sexy how U can be bi" and "lets B frends" spammed repeatedly into my inbox), I just can't quite bring myself to give other people 1 star unless they haven't filled out their profile at all.

It's ok. I won't cry into my cereal over it. But what a tough bunch ;).

My first journal post! This would be where I admit that I frequently abuse parentheses and misuse quotes. This is edge of your seat type of stuff.

Ok, maybe not.

One thing this site has going for it is the official OKCupid blog and it's ability to turn statistics, graphs and trending into fun and sometimes lighthearted reading (if only my former Statistics professors could have been half as interesting in their approach).

Something I have noticed since updating my profile a few weeks ago (so that it actually contained information finally) is that surprisingly, a large amount of my 'local' matches have devastatingly interesting profiles but never seem to visit my profile. Instead, people who are absolutely nowhere even remotely close to being a 'match' locally (I seem to have more luck with people who aren't local which is fine with me) seem to check out my profile the most.

Either everyone fascinating locally has their visitor browsing turned off to stalk better (tricksy) or I am missing something (or I am just really appealing to people who dont live near where I do).

The Improve Matches questions are a great concept hindered by how they are ultimately used by the user base. I have answered over 300 at this point. However, if I come across someone who has only answered a smaller number of questions, my chances of being more their 'friend' and less their 'enemy' greatly increases since they have a smaller set of questions to work with thereby making the matching process a little flawed in that respect. Is someone who has only answered 10 questions truly 0% my enemy and 90% my friend?

In a similar vein, the quiver matches seem to be done by drunk cupids with bad aim, at least for me. While I have found some pretty awesome profiles on my own, the 'quiver'  (<--this is such a terrible term by the way. Even though it matches the whole 'cupid' theme, the word 'quiver' has been totally bastardized in my mind by the ultra-creepy 'quiverfull' movement. Yes, really. Weep for my mind.) I assume this is due to the whole issue I just brought up with the question amounts.

That's enough rambling and abuse of parentheses for one post methinks.