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you can miss me by a mile or just inch by inch

posted by [personal profile] purplerabbits at 10:35am on 02/06/2003
Sometimes I will randomly decide to boycott a meme. The LJ match thingy is one such. I got pissed off at the very first page of their form, and when I started to see more and more results from their I was glad I hadn't bothered. One point that people might like to bear in mind: persnickety people are only compatible with each other if they are persnickety about the same things. Also compatibilities of over 106% are not reassuring...
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posted by [personal profile] djm4 at 02:52am on 02/06/2003
Yeah, I got annoyed by most of the questions on the first page but decided to proceed out of sheer bloody-mindedness. I wasn't for one moment inclined to take any of the results seriously, but in that respect it's no different from any other 'how compatible am I with you?' test.

Does anyone take any of these tests seriously? Scared now...
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posted by [identity profile] skx.livejournal.com at 03:38am on 02/06/2003
Actually I felt the same, I completed the questions upon the first page out of stubbornness - after spending a good while trying to persuade the entry page to accept my UK postcode.

After that, seeing how many more questions appearred I got bored and gave up.

People taking them seriously? I can imagine a new "quiz" now:

"You take these things far too seriously; you should get out more!"
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posted by [identity profile] selectnone.livejournal.com at 04:05am on 02/06/2003
"You are the Red Power-Ranger. You wield the Sword Of Megatron, and take Livejournal quizzes too seriously"
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posted by [identity profile] selectnone.livejournal.com at 04:04am on 02/06/2003
...and what's the point of the barcode things? Eh? Eh?
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posted by [identity profile] ex-pipistre.livejournal.com at 04:46am on 02/06/2003
there is no point. unless wasting a few minutes of time counts as a point, as for so many online quizzes, etc..
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posted by [identity profile] pavlos.livejournal.com at 04:53am on 02/06/2003
I gave up when it asked your relationship status.

And I seriously doubt whether it detects "compatible" people or just "similar". Similar would be far easier. As an obvious example, two dominant lovers would be similar but a dominant and a passive would be more compatible.

Pavlos

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posted by [identity profile] altamira16.livejournal.com at 08:36am on 02/06/2003
Are you saying that I am not 110% compatible with the people on my list? That is so sad. I really was hoping it was true. I take quizzes to waste time. I am not sure how it guesses anything over 100%. Also, a lot of the people who matched were often people who did not know each other well at all.
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posted by [identity profile] baratron.livejournal.com at 03:10pm on 02/06/2003
I didn't realised it asked you questions. I thought it looked at your listed LJ interests and went from there! Well, I'm definitely not itnerested in it, then. Anything that only allows you to enter a US zip code as your location is fundamentally offensive to me.
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posted by [identity profile] conflux.livejournal.com at 06:53am on 03/06/2003
Yep, I'm with you on this and even posted as such.
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