Guess what happened to me, Skouts?!
Amidst saying my goodbyes to friends today, packing for my move to the big city (where I’ll be working with Skout full time! YES!!), and watching cheesy TV show reruns online (… Okay, that last one’s not very productive at all), I almost forgot to write this week’s Skout Article!
I know.
Slap on the wrist — I totally deserve it.
Thankfully, my Blog team is pretty bomb. Tobias (awesome dude who hands over the stock imagery for the blog) has this weekly email reminder thing he sends out to remind me to get my butt in gear and give you guys an update. Ha!
So okay.
Here’s your update before I get fired.
You guys have been doing such an amazing job leaving us feedback on the blog posts, sending in your suggestions for how you’d like to see the App grow and change, and I just knew that I had to reward you in some way.
So I thought to myself, “I know! Why don’t I just spotlight some of my favorite comments on TheFlirtBlog.com?!”
I know, I know.
I’m a genius.
And I’m a pretty rockin’ Community Manager too, if I do say so myself. So without further ado … I will now point out my favorite comments over the past month or so.
“I had a guy who got a tad compulsive with messaging me. He said hello one day but I withheld a response because he just didn’t spark my interest. (him being in his late 30′s, and me being 20). Contrary to my subtleness, he took it upon himself to be, let’s say persistent. I started getting several messages from him a day. “hi….hi….hi….hey….what’s up…hi..hi..hey…” you get the picture. He did shake things up one day by saying ” do you not wanna talk? Perceptive fellow isn’t he? Well, with his in-depth perceptiveness, he apparently figured that I obviously did but was just being too shy and it would just take a little more work to reel me in. So the “hi”s and “hey”s continued. (side note to gentlemen, talking to us is not like a raffle where the more times you put your name in, the more likely you are to get drawn. If we don’t respond to you after the 1st… Or 45th…time, we aren’t more likely to talk just because you message again. It’s actually more of a turn off. It comes off as too strong, and slightly obsessive. In my opinion anyway)”
- Angie, in reply to Cheri’s Adventures on Skout
Angie, I could not have said it better myself.
If I could find a way to just drill this into everyone’s head who deals in online or mobile flirting? I think the world would be a better place.
Messaging someone once or twice?
Yeah, no big deal. You can get away with that. Maybe I just skipped over you the first time? Maybe I accidentally deleted you the second?
But 3x? Let alone 45x, as this comment on our previous entry extends to?
Jeez, buddy.
Girls don’t work that way.
Take a tip from me and Angie — we’re not interested.
“Have her feel your arm and say ‘Feel that? That’s boyfriend material’”
- HARD2H8, in reply to Send Us Pick Up Lines
HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
… HA!!
Call me easily amused, but that is seriously the best pick up line I have ever heard. I’m not even kidding — if someone had used that on me prior to reading it here, I would have thought the guy was incredibly hilarious & witty.
But I’m a sucker for wordplay and write mildly humorous crap for a living, so I might just be a little biased.
… Just a little.
“I think there should be an option where u can send messages to people and then they can read it when they r next online and then they can reply back.”
James Rolfe, in reply to Tell Us What You Think!
I liked this one because after reading it, I literally had to stop, take a deep breath, and refrain from slamming my head into my keyboard. It taught me discipline! Really, guys!
Because believe it or not, James Rolfe? That is exactly what you can do on Skout! It’s not even a feature we have to throw in because, GREAT SCOTT — IT’S ALREADY THERE! Yaaaaay!
But in all seriousness, there are a lot of times where this blog just gets the most ridiculous comments. This one is pretty tame compared to the few that I’ve sent to the spam folder along with enlarging my penis and all that. And there are so many times where I’m reading replies and thinking, “Are you serious?”
Like, someone will post a 10 page long comment, and then at the very bottom, they’ll write, “But please don’t unscreen this.”
WHAT?!
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!
You made me read all that for nothing?!
Why would you take the time to write all of that?! What if I hadn’t read your comment thoroughly and unscreened it by skipping that last line?! How horrible would that have been!
… Not so horrible, actually. As it’s not my job to monitor your private life for you, and if you’re going to be posting here on the blog, your comments are actually property of the internet, and not of me. Which means, if you volunteer hilarious but potentially harmful information about yourself to me on the blog that I think our community will enjoy? I’m probably going to put it to use.
Which means: Guys, stop sending me your private memoirs and then getting pissed when I set them live. If you wanna make your secrets public somewhere, go write a blog. But if you’d like to leave a relevant comment that contributes to the overall community experience here on Skout? Then by all means, leave a comment!
And speaking of comments, do you guys have any for me?
Have you all been having fun commenting on the blog, reading about Skout, and playing with our app? Also, what more would you like to see here on the blog?
Let us know!
We love hearing what you have to say.
And as always? Happy flirting, Skouts.
XOXO Cheri XOXO
I think you should allow a user blog, you know for people to write their own stuff like you do Cheri. I know it’s an idea that might take a while and it would probably slow down the app considerably but see if you can run it by the developers
And I always wanted to say hi to you but I can’t find your account! Maybe I’m just blind but I don’t see it. So uh.. Hiiii.
@Shawn
That’s a really cool idea! It would have to be something we implement on the actual website, though, that you can POSSIBLY update through our App, but … Unfortunately, at this time, that would take a helluva lot of moderation on our end, server dedication, etc, and we can’t have that right now when there are so many things to focus on for the actual app!
For now, you can create a blog on a different website, and if you happen to write an article about Skout, send it to me and I could possibly feature it here as a sort of “Guest Blog”!
Yes? No? Whatcha think, Shawn?
I’ll see what I can do
Lol, well there’s two things you should probably know. One, that I unintentionally locked myself out of the Skout app by deleting the app (as it was behaving screwily) and reinstalling the app only to find out I forgot my password and can’t login anymore… basically what I want to say is I can’t get my password back because the password recovery option won’t send the password recovery email.
And two. For like a full minute or more I was thinking about working at Skout (I got next generation industry changing ideas & interests etc) and may have ended up as a coworker one day….. But by coincident, I think I might accidentally know somewhere who IS working in Skout already and it would be too hilarious if both of us worked there.
What I’m saying is that you don’t have to make this public, but probably can’t stop those fingers from clicking, even if making this public is acknowledging that you may show up as a girl looking for a guy on Skout, but in actuality could be another tranny leading us on (like those ones that keep on popping up on heterosexual searches… darn you Skout for mixing us all) basically what I want to say is, Cheri do you have a wiener and send it to guys on Skout after you hook their interest? And if the answer is no, how can we be sure given Skout’s rep?
Only make this public, if you want me to ROFL and die…
@E
O_o … *Cough*Issues*Cough*
So I guess some people will just never get it *cough*E*cough*. Even if Cheri were a tranny, she’s a damn sexy one! Sometimes things happen for a reason, maybe not being able to log in was for the best? Hmmmm…. Anyway, Cheri I think you’re doing great with the app and this blog. Some of the things people write make me giggle….. To say the least. And I was wondering if guys get the same problems as girls…. So guys, do you get 37 messages from girls without responding to them a single time? Do you get nasty naked pictures? Or is it just the girls who have to suffer through this? I tried a new approach, I said hi back about 20 times to one guy to see if he’d get the point… NO. He goes “so you have any nudes?”. Ahhhhh the people you run into on here. BUT! there are some guys I’ve talked to who were able to hold a nice conversation and I enjoy talking to them. That’s really all that matters…
Btw Cheri, please don’t post this.
JK <3
Sorry if my jokes don't humor you but it made me laugh. =] you seem like the type of person who would laugh though.
Hope you enjoy your big move!
And speaking of people who “just don’t get it” while posting my last comment in the entire 5 minutes it took me, I got 20 messages from one guy. He said “hey” 4 times and sent me 9 pictures of these horses… Some were unicorns, some were cartoons… Weird… And he sent me 6 winks. And after I didn’t reply for 3 minutes he asked why I was ignoring him! Well I wasn’t ignoring you! I was busy writing something that might possibly make others laugh at people like you! Go to a bar, say hi to a girl 10 times, pull out pictures of unicorns and horses then see what happens. If that works for you in the real world PLEASE let me know!! Anyway, just thought I’d share my most recent experience. And one more thing… Is there a way to get the keyboard for writing in the blogs to go landscape? This small keyboard is driving me nuts! And I even have little fingers.
Ciao! <3
A chat room would be great
I am mixed. For some reason Skout doesn’t like that and keeps suggesting that I update my ethnicity so people can find me easier. No matter how many tines I select mixed/multi it still says “ask me”.
A name search box so we can people more easily
=p I think I’m going to try to keep things on the mum =X or least lower-key… if my friend that probably works for Skout were to ever figure out who I was, would be hilarious. But I love keeping enough secrets to make things fun and interesting for me.
@Kaitlyn: Yeah, I’ll never get it, that you read every word I wrote, and even responded back when I didn’t say a thing to you. But when guys send you: hi’s, winks, unicorns & nudes…you pay no attention to them?? I wonder why? Hmm?!?? Are you hot, rich & local even?!?? I also don’t get that you sound bisexual, enjoy being submissive, and are probably into threesomes…even though from the sounds of it, the only action you’re getting is from a keyboard….smashed over your head.
@general: it’s glaring obvious & has been mentioned indirectly times over, but here’s a challenge for Skout to ponder & think about…… how to balance the asymmetry of the male to female ratio of the community?
For this blog, I think it’d be great to list out and hear all the community issues, and go a step further of trying to solve them as a community together. Like a townhall meeting.
How is male to female ratio handed in: clubs & bars? schools & university? church? other dating sites? etc. what can we learn from these to improve here?
Hot? Of course. Rich? I pay my bills and have money left over to splurge. But that’s what hard work gets you. Try it some time? Bi because I say someone looks good or give them a compliment? I don’t see it…. You seem to be very insecure. If you can live that way, then I’m glad you’re happy. =] I just state my experiences as they ask us to. Have a lovely day. =]
To everyone who’s responded so far, PHEW! I just got all moved in in San Francisco and I’ll be able to really give you guys a genuine reply by tomorrow (which is when I start my first day of work in the Skout offices). Thank you everyone for sending in your comments so far, even though for some of you I’m like, “…Wut”. XD
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