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She says she is a very online person and can deal with the hate, so she will be fine.
More interesting I found the exchange between gwern and Scott on /r/slatestarcodex
Gwern argued that dateMe.docs are a waste as they repel more than attract, Scott disagreed strongly and they are a good tool for filtering and have a high chance to find romance (Also Scott revealed that a few years ago he had a poly thing with her, so of course he took her side). Both didn't budge.
Gwern also linked to the inventor Putanomonit (who stole it from Aella really), who has a blog post about how dateMe.docs should not be used as "advertisment" (the same as a tinder profile) but as an application (send to a specific person/group of people).
https://putanumonit.com/2022/09/02/date-me-doc/
I was surprised to read Scott would weigh in so heavily on a topic that appeared to be... pretty dumb and lightweight. So I looked up the thread, since it wasn't linked in your comment. Scott replies twice in a row, then doubles down! What the heck? Scrolling down further, we find:
Ah. Scott is Katja's ex boyfriend. Much is made clear.
It really drives home the fact that yes, these people are in fact all fucking each other.
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This was my intuition as well, which is why my first thought when seeing the MR post was, “who leaked this?”
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Very personal opinion-y, but I also generally feel that males have more of a reason to do this kind of a profile, especially in the rat-sphere.
They're more prone to having the lack of social awareness and/or dating options that'd lead to it seeming to be a good idea. There's plenty of males who flat-out cannot get laid therefore a hail mary makes more sense.
This woman can get laid. She likely knows candidates who would make for a broadly acceptable solution to her problem that she's either implicitly or explicitly rejected. She should know better in terms of social etiquette. The problems that currently result in her singleness are likely a combination of pickiness, filtering and refusal to compromise on the Polyamory thing.
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