Your expectations are just that: YOUR expectations. 1) this is not a dating site. OK. this is not only a dating site, but also a community
2) your profile is off-putting, to me at least. I saw this thread and wanted to see what the fuss is all about
3) clearly, you do have certain level of butt hurt, since you felt a need to go and create a post on people not responding to you, Thus, you are not as "feelings-less" as you claim. If you messaged several women on here and did not get a response, the common denominator here is you. Accept, analyze, and move on.

PS I was not one of the women whom you contacted, but I feel like you really want an answer in line with your approach, so there we go.

I’ve gotten some nasty responses when I said: thanks but no thanks. Often from folks who obviously haven’t read my profile(or disregarded it, if they did). Now I ignore when not interested. Nobody is ‘entitled’ to my reply. If I don’t reply, get a clue: that means no thank you.

As a woman, I can tell you that many of us choose not to respond because a "no thanks" can result in an insulting, harassing barrage of messages. It's often just defensive to ignore rather than respond... sorry.

Certainly we can hope for good treatment by others.

When you say to a person "Hey, check me out! Interested?" If they're not, they then have the option of writing you back and saying "Sorry, no, good luck with your search" or ignoring you.

Bear in mind some folks find the idea of a turn-down, even a polite one like my example above, to be inherently confrontational, and not everyone has an appetite for confrontation.

Also bear in mind that sometimes people (not you, I'd think, as you indicate you would accept a turn-down with grace) respond rather harshly to the rejection, and it would only take one or two of those in a lifetime before one got gunshy about the whole affair.

In my experience, some men don't seem to take no for an answer, nor do they take it lightly. On some dating sites, women may get over 100 messages a day so it makes no sense to answer them all. It's a Catch 22, really. I don't like to be rude and I don't like to hurt people's feelings. When I do answer and I am nice, but with no intent to lead someone on, I always seem to regret it. Some men just don't give up.

I agree. It is rude not to reply to a message.

It costs nothing to be polite. I always reply to messages.

Dating is only a part of this site.

The phone, texting, messaging—all a convenience—for me!

I think it’s rude of you to tell me I’m rude for not responding to a stranger (not that you messaged me).

You know they are not interested, if they don’t message back.

This was the topic of another discussion. People seemed about evenly divided as to whether we should give a polite response of just ignore. I too, wish people would respond. That way you know where you stand.