If I could get just one or two requests for a meet up in a year or two, I sure would show up if I said I would, or if I couldn’t, I would let the person know, apologize, and try to reset the date. It has certainly not been my experience over several attempts that getting a woman to meet is like shooting fish in a barrel. More like regular fishing, without bait it seems. Like throwing the hook out into a toxic dead pond.

How much time has passed? Another woman posted last week that a guy had not replied to her latest message. Turned out she was too impatient. Is it reasonable to assume these dudes are within short driving distance?

Maybe some other women responded to them before you did. And they were impatient.

I am not familiar with how POF works, other than it is only for singles. Does POF have a bunch of forums like here, where a member can post lots of comments.

I think this type of site is great. We can post profiles and lots of comments. And therefore, read a bunch of profiles, and read comments by members and learn lots about them.

I have been rebuffed because of my profile and because of many of my comments.

Maybe your profile is real scary. Or your messaging style.

What is your experience on this site?

Excuse my ignorance. What is POF?

Coming from the opposite side, I feel like you were lucky to have so many messages in 2 weeks. That's as many as I got over 2 months at one point. I have to send about 15 messages to get a reply unless it's the rare person who messages me first. And then, only 1 in 3 leads to meeting someone in person. This is over the course of a year now, on 3 different sites. 4 counting this one.

I was starting to think it was me... (maybe it is, of course).

Thankfully dating is in my past but in this brave new online world is the man still expected to make the first move?

Lol, try being a man offline, in the real world, and have at it getting dates with the pick of the litter. I promise you will be sorely disappointed a few times at best. Shrug it off, move on.