In OKCupid they send you emails like this:
Hurray! Someone chose you on Quickmatch. We’re not going to tell you exactly who, but it was one of these people! Log in and rate your matches to find out which one!
Along with an image like this:
They are fucking with you
This is frankly annoying. It’s even more annoying that more often than not, it’s the fugliest lady on the page who gave you the magic five stars.
The annoyance is reaching teethgrindy levels when you realise that none of those images link to the profiles! Clicking just leads you to your normal homepage. So if you actually fancy one of the people in the email, you have literally no way of finding out who they are.
Until now. If there’s someone hawt, you need to dig into the source code. In Gmail you do it like this:
Behind the scenes
You will be rewarded with a bunch of HTML uglier than the chick who started this whole mess. Persevere though and use your browser to search a few times for ‘alt=’, to find:
<a href=”http://www.okcupid.com/blahblahblahblah”><img width=”160″ height=”160″ src=”http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/160×160/blahblahblahblah.jpeg” alt=”uniquenyilicous” style=”border:1px solid #cbdaea;” /></a>
BOOM. Don’t let them fuck with you – information wants to be free.
While I can’t comment on the technical aspects of your circumvention, I can comment on the incredibly shit pictures some women use. I mean, seriously, who’d want to shag a massive fucking teacup? Or indeed someone who looks like they may be holding up a noose just outside the frame? Queer.
> who’d want to shag a massive fucking teacup
I know, what kind of mug* would be into that?
There is a whole world of ceramics porn here.
* UK slang for ‘stupid person’
> OMG
You won’t find this kind of advice on glamour.com biatches.
Honestly it’s not a very good day for Quickmatch, none of them scream click me.
To me bobble-hat looks the prettiest. I would click on the potent combination of (geek + glasses + boobs) #2, even though she looks a little Bo’Selecta.
#9, who knows? We know she is as tall as a jukebox and has unruly hair.
Why #3 is sucking a shitty hotdog off that guy’s face is anyone’s guess, she’s not into it at all.
Also, you should be able to cross-reference the 9 people’s “last online” time versus email sent time to narrow down who the possible rater is.