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Many OkCupid users use the “blog this” button to create journal postings about match questions. I’m totally ok with that. Sometimes their posts are interesting. Occasionally I enjoy hearing their justification for answering a specific question a certain way (especially if their reasoning is even mildly interesting). But there are several things that bother me:

• FIRST: When a question says, “pick the best option” or “choose the most appropriate answer” it generally means all the answers are possible. Many of the answers are probably good choices. And it is supposed to be a difficult decision. If it were an easy and obvious choice, then it wouldn’t be a very discriminating question. Please don’t create a journal entry to tell us all that there are multiple possible good answers (or that because there were multiple good answers you skipped the question). We all KNOW there are multiple possible answers. That is why they call it a multiple choice question. All this tells us is that you are an indecisive wuss who can’t handle difficult situations.
• SECOND: I hate when people say thinks like,”I don’t get what this is trying to get at. Do you want to know how open I am with new partners, or do you want to know whether or not I’d willingly put an old partner in danger? The answer to the first question is yes, and to the second question is no.” (from Invisible_Hand). My understanding is that it doesn’t matter what the intent of the question was. It’s a question. OkCupid gave you a (crummy and slightly obnoxious) hypothetical situation and they want to know what you would do. It is multiple choice. You can’t choose both options. Again, it is supposed to be a difficult decision. That is what (supposedly) makes it a discriminating question. You aren’t supposed to answer how you think other people want you to answer based on their intent. You are supposed to answer the damn question honestly. When you blog about this you are admitting that you are telling people what they want to hear. As women, we assume this means you are lying to try to get into our pants. You shouldn’t admit this.
• THIRD: Please don’t blog every freaking question. I like reading journal entries. Sometimes I select the “Journal –> Strangers” option to view other people’s journals. And when I do, sometimes I get 29 posts from the same person because that person decided to blog about every freaking questions they answered (yes, today I am referring to you, Kayfabe97). You can’t have that strong of an opinion about EVERY OkCupid question.

I’m sure other users have similar pet peeves (i.e. users who feel the need to point out the “trick” questions. We know, you are super smart for noticing). That’s all really. Use some common sense and some common courtesy when blogging about OkCupid questions. Otherwise you will annoy me. And I will hope that *horrible* things happen to you.