whats your status? with poll

skins · 2014-01-30T01:10:42+00:00

With a quick poll I just wanted to see what ratios of single male compared to single females are on the forum. I won't go into any theories as to why the results may skew to one side, if in fact they do, as it has been discussed many times in various threads...I just wanted to see if I could get...

Started by skins · Jan 29, 2014 · 113 replies

what's your relationship status?

Male, currently in a relationship 7 · 8%
Male, currently single 41 · 47%
Female, currently in a relationship 16 · 18%
Female, currently single 23 · 26%

87 voters · voting is closed

Odo Mar 6, 2014 at 7:42 PM #101 Report

Entangled said: ↑
Was he single?

I lol'd. :thumbup:

Kiwong Mar 6, 2014 at 11:00 PM #102 Report

Entangled said: ↑
Was he single?

Most definitely. His last girlfriend was accidently stung to death. Very unfortunate that. :sarcastic:

BlueDays Mar 6, 2014 at 11:27 PM #103 Report

MikeyC said: ↑
Drink chamomile tea and talk about Miley Cyrus? Count me in. :bigsmile:

jc972 said: ↑
Ooh! How about a Tupperware party with some Justin Bieber playing softly in the background?

^ 🤭 :applause:

Scandic123 said: ↑
Single males dominate these sites, apparently. It's no surprise that there are many singles, but I wonder why there are most males...

^ I have a theory on that but am reluctant to post it because I don't want to start WWIII! :bigsmile:

Opaline said: ↑
Yeah, he was... yikes. Actually, I was completely duped. I think he played the part really well, with his video logs and everything. I never would have suspected.

^Your not the only one who was successfully duped by him, Opal. Me too :/

I am single and female.

Kiwong Mar 6, 2014 at 11:43 PM #104 Report

Me too. He was hawt! Dueling word association posts that went long into the night.

awkwardamanda Mar 10, 2014 at 5:45 PM #105 Report

BlueDays said: ↑
^ I have a theory on that but am reluctant to post it because I don't want to start WWIII! :bigsmile:

Damn, now I'm curious.:question:

awkwardamanda said: ↑
Actually, it's not that there are more males, it's just that a higher proportion of the males are single. As I'm typing this, the results so far are as follows:

Male, currently in a relationship: 5, 9.80%
Male, currently single: 22, 43.14%
Female, currently in a relationship: 10, 19.61%
Female, currently single: 14, 27.45%
That's 27 men and 24 women in total. Roughly half and half. Now, that's not exactly a lot of votes, but it will be interesting to see if it evens out with more votes or if those proportions more or less stay like that. 81.48% of the men who have voted are single, while 58.33% of the women who have voted are single. 70.59% of all voters so far are single.

:reading:*nerd snort* I like stats and surveys!

Update:
Almost twice as many people have now voted and the proportions haven't changed much.

Male, currently in a relationship: 8, 8.60%

Male, currently single: 44, 47.31%

Female, currently in a relationship: 16, 17.20%

Female, currently single: 25, 26.88%

44.09% of voters are female. 55.91% are male.
Among female voters:
60.98% are single. 39.02% are in a relationship.
Among male voters:
84.62% are single. 15.38% are in a relationship.
74.19% of all voters are single. 25.81% are in a relationship.

bcsr Mar 11, 2014 at 3:23 AM #106 Report

Typically, men are supposed to be the pursuer when it comes to dating. Women are far more likely to be asked out, and thus, start a relationship. A lot of men come to these websites specifically looking for a relationship, as if it were a dating site.

springk Mar 11, 2014 at 5:52 AM #107 Report

Female, Currently( from the time i came on this planet)..Single

Taden Mar 11, 2014 at 6:30 AM #108 Report

Female and commonlaw married

awkwardamanda Mar 11, 2014 at 4:13 PM #109 Report

bcsr said: ↑
Typically, men are supposed to be the pursuer when it comes to dating. Women are far more likely to be asked out, and thus, start a relationship. A lot of men come to these websites specifically looking for a relationship, as if it were a dating site.

That would probably explain things.

Remus Mar 12, 2014 at 1:21 AM #110 Report

bcsr said: ↑
A lot of men come to these websites specifically looking for a relationship, as if it were a dating site.

I agree. :thumbup: They are probably not well though.

Kiwong Mar 12, 2014 at 1:29 AM #111 Report

Interesting. I came here at the point of a mental crisis. Dating was the last thing on my mind.

Remus Mar 12, 2014 at 1:35 AM #112 Report

Kiwong said: ↑
Interesting. I came here at the point of a mental crisis. Dating was the last thing on my mind.

Yeah ditto, back in 2003.

coyote Mar 12, 2014 at 10:29 AM #113 Report

Remus said: ↑
^All of the above. I did say 5-10%.

We have 105 pages of reported posts going back to 2009 consisting of 5,387posts and 1,942 threads. That's the reported ones. We do see patterns in certain users behaviour and have off the record complaints more often than this. Though no proof given and we cant go off heresay. It's much more common that you think, not just here but all over the internet. I'm friends with mods on quite a few places. They say the same.

It's not wholly men doing this of course. though I'd put a figure of about 90% on that.

I don't want to spread paranoia of course but for myself I'm far more cautious than the 'wet behind the ears' Remus that was first connecting to the internet back in 2000.

the joys of moderating.... people/things are not always as they seem :thumbup:

bcsr Mar 12, 2014 at 1:03 PM #114 Report

I'm surprised the numbers aren't higher than that, honestly. Anonymity is not without it's price.

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