Women don't pay attention to those details as much as we do, imo. Similar to the effort they do (or don't) put into their profile

I got to ask, what is really with these girls who have nothing on their profile but have pics and are online a lot? Are they just waiting for some random hot guy to message them? Can you expect them to be more superficial than the average? There's nothing to open with except some (well deserved) neg, because all they'll get is compliments on their pictures.

Do you guys ever open these, if so do you have a standard line for profiles with no info?

I rarely open with them and assume they are fake. Only time I open is if I noticed they viewed my profile after because it shows they probably aren't fake and you can use the whole you stopped by my profile and didn't leave a message line as an opener.

Some of them are fake/troll accounts, some are women who just like reading through compliments for the ego boost, some are women who are curious about online dating but not willing to 'put themselves out there' by actually talking about themselves. In their mind, if they don't do that then they can still justify it to themselves as 'just doing it for fun'.
etc....etc....etc....but there are definitely some diamonds in the rough among those too.

I would consider 3/4 of those profiles as fake. If you were to make a fake profile with hot pics, would you bother writing anything?

2 kinds of people make fake profiles. Unattractive females who want to see what the difference is like, and hope to fall in love based on personality. Or dudes that want to up their game in a social experiment type situation. Compare their messages etc.

There is also the non-fake option, where the female is either too lazy or wishes to remain anonymous because of the stigma behind online dating. These people usually answer questions to help with their anonymous match searches, where they do all of the messaging. Fakes typically do not bother with questions and will let the messages roll in with minimal effort.

If the girl is messaging you with an empty profile and explains why her profile is empty, then she's probably the non-fake type. It's not like the fakes usually go around actively tricking dudes. They just let it come to them, you know?

Yeah, makes sense. I've had a few "hot girl" accounts myself to see what sort of messages they get, but I just used 1 picture (some photoshopped generic customer service woman) and never replied, deleted when I had the info I wanted. It's just that I encounter empty profiles with several personal pics, they might be stolen from FB though I guess.
It might make sense that if they're real, they may be wanting to do the contacting themselves like you guys say or just want some extra attention. Similar to landlords who don't put up an ad but will contact people looking to rent themselves
Either way I'd think it's generally a time waster to open them.

Other than that, I have one semi stalking my account (visiting several times a day for a while, obviously wants me to initiate) - however I'm not interested. I feel as though everything is wrong, the last one who did this I actually blocked to prevent wasting her time, but I have this nice guy in me who doesn't like stuff like that. Just ignore/do nothing is best yeah?

google reverse image search solves >90% of fake profile problems. and if they're real it still doesn't hurt to do one because sometimes you'll find interesting things. like modelmayhem profiles with nude photoshoots and paparazzi pictures of the girl with quentin tarantino (both girls opened me, confirmed real).

yeah so this ended up sucking as you have to pay to see the messages/visits/anything on these dutch sites. I might have found one with a 3 day full working trial so we'll see.

It is really weird. There are very attractive girls here who have the yellow dot (for replying more often than red dot), and others who have not even received a message in a week. In my old city pretty much every girl who was average or better was a red dot. Not that I'm complaining though.

Never mind this, she's totally ****ing cool just had a really bad/neutral profile pic. Other pics revealed all sorts of colored hair, traveling enthusiast, piercings and tattoos all over, awesome text, seems like a sex maniac which sort of intimidates me but then I remembered it's nothing new. Let's go for it!

Cliffs: I decide to blow off someone because profile pic only, shallow ****, lesson learned.

So it looks like this chick really is gonna show up

Hi Jennitron!

No there was another girl who I was going to go out with who texted me a bunch of weird **** and ended up cancelling on me a few hours before (to my delight, i honestly wanted to cancel myself)

Swede was the first (and so far only) girl i've gone out with since my recent foray back into online dating and we just kind of clicked right off the bat.

I think I remember now! It was the broken arm girl.

I just learned a new word. Sapiosexual. It's someone who gets really turned on by intelligence. Like they're gonna get all wet if you're solving equations during foreplay.
This particular chick's day job is a dominatrix and insists that if you get in a relationship, you better be OK with random guys walking around in latex wearing all sorts of masks.
Gotta love online dating!

lol, yea it was i don't drink coffee don't make me walk a lot i have a removable cast that i don't intend on wearing btw is it ok that i don't drink alcohol, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S OK, NOT A BIG DEAL OR ANYTHING girl

I messaged one and just said something about how her keyboard must be broken and I'll fill out her profile for her... she likes to laugh, the outdoors, travel and is looking for someone smart, funny, ambitious, adventurous etc etc. We exchanged a few messages and she agreed to meet but I'll believe it when I see it. She said she was excessively cautious about putting info online but that doesn't make much sense to me since she could have easily just stuck to broad generalities.

Girls with empty profiles are the slootiest.

Good. Stop monkeying around with useless loserish things and do stuff that helps you improve. Dont make a fake profile. Work out, work on your messages, ( seeing what 10000000 douches send girls doesnt count) and go talk to girls.

Wow, had such a great second date last night with nurse. I'm really excited about this one, haven't felt this way about a girl since January and 20+ dates. I think it helps that I got her really soon (like 1 day) after she signed up to the site, as I don't think she would have been on the site long before being snapped up by someone.

So on this sentiment I might give some advice. Think someone might have said it already, but search for girls on the 'Who's new' criteria. You'll probably have to sift through compared to the 'improved' special blend you get when you receive 'the email' but there could be more chance of dating 'normal' girls who haven't been stagnating on the site for months settling for no less than George Clooney.

Anyway, hope I don't **** this one up.

EDIT. Just typical that as soon as I get excited about one person and feel like I don't need any more first dates for the time being, 2 good-looking blondes get back to me confirming they are good for dates next week. lol. Although one of them (2nd below) did say 'house your week going?'

<3

Actually followed up on some advice here and my return rate was abysmal, Im going for some new pics today with less casual wear but changing up my messages to more of a 'hey nice profile, what you been up to' not only resulted in less replies but also less visits from the recieving end. [x] sample size tho, so Ill keep on trucking today and tomorow with that stuff and see where we get.

The who's new seems like solid advice as well up here.

@Sandra
1st has a nice vibe going on in that picture imo. Tbh major turn off when you have to decode her message from 1337/breezer speak to a correct form.

SandraXII how do you get high quality girls do you have amazing profile pics?

Yeah, house your profile Sandra?

That first pic has some photoshop potential in the background.

Nice and playfull stuff in your profile ! I can def. learn some from that ..

I can be quite an odd person at times though so needless to say it helps if the quirky stuff fits with your personality. I think most of the success that I've had has been largely from my messaging rather than the crap I wrote in my profile.