A question about blocking people on OD sites

[notyesterdaythankyou]

New to OD but wondering if I block people, do they know? Do they get a message to say I've blocked them?

How do others 'housekeep' the profiles on the sites if you don't block everyone you're not interested in? I'm sounding clueless

Want to be organised about OD but not sure how to.

Sorry I'm coming over as a weirdo control freak over organised, but not sure how to keep tabs on the profiles I've looked at and discarded etc.

I use OKCupid and housekeep thusly;

I hide people who are a good match if I know I won't be interested in, to save having to wade through them. This is probably a bit brutal but hey ho.

I block/delete anyone who sends me a 'sexy' message. I imagine they'd only ever send me one - the same one they c/p to 30 other women but it makes me feel I'm housekeeping

OKC also has a bit to add a 'note' but I don't bother with that.

Oh, and anyone you block just doesnt see your profile anymore. They don't get a message.

I don't think they get a message saying you have blocked them, but if they try to message you again I think they get some kind of indication you don't want to talk to them.

Do they? I thought the message just appears sent but never actually arrives?

Ok, I was trying to avoid this...! I think it was on POF a few months ago, I had messaged a bloke with a breezy one liner, and he obviously wasn't interested in my many gifts. He sent me a message back, and then blocked me, presumably about the same time, which did seem like a massive over-reaction and assumption that I am a bunny-boiler which I'm not. I tried to read the message, not having any idea I had been blocked, and just couldn't acess it, which I thought was odd. So I messaged him in my naivety to say this, and got some kind of indication that he had blocked me!

Oh dear Parsley (((bunnies))) I don't know about PoF

I'm over it now kali Plenty of Fish, POF for short.

I think the different sites work differently. I 'hide' profiles I could never be interested in, or people who I've rejected, or ones who I've mailed and didn't reply after a week or so - sometimes I'll try one more time in case the first was hidden in a deluge of mails, and sometimes get a positive response from that, but if I don't hear back I'll hide.

Blocking I only reserve for people who are just sending me weird messages. I'm a bloke so I get fewer, although there are still some.

This is on Match, incidentally.

Thanks. That makes it all seem easier

Also, I didn't routinely block. Just people who were being a bit persistent, or weird, or rude, or sent willy pics...

I'm on match too and my attitude is similar to Bant's.

I've not had a willy pic! (Thank goodness!)

me neither

For those on Match could you answer a couple of questions for me?

I get email notifications that someone has looked at my profile/winked at me etc but when I click the link they don't show up on my page? Why would that happen? It doesn't happen all the time and I haven't blocked the people.. hmm..

I've had that a couple of times but it's only temporary.

I think that it takes a few moments/minutes for the website to be updated so I might get a "someone has viewed your profile" alert pop up/email, but they are only available to view 5 mins or so later.

I've not had any that haven't turned up at all.

Thanks Folk.

I have had those who have never appeared! Strange..

No willy pics here either >