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pmf823 is offline pmf823 Post #1  October 6,2010, 7:36pm
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Hi all,

New to eHarmony and working through these boards to try to figure things out. I've noticed that some people who answer my first GC, do not appear in my "Who's Viewed Me" category. Does this mean that they can answer the questions without first checking me out? Or does eHarmony not register them as "viewers" on my homepage if they only view my profile via the "respond to his questions page"? I assume the later, which I think means that someone can check you out but ignore you completely (not archiving or closing you), and therefore there's no way you can know if they're active or not.

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Well according to a recent post from another poster here, I guess now the first view doesn't register.(news to me)


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Or does eHarmony not register them as "viewers" on my homepage if they only view my profile via the "respond to his questions page
I believe this is correct too, which makes it look as if they never view your profie again during the stages..

anyway it would be nice if eH let us know who was paying and non-paying.. it may happen someday, it may not.. but they shouldn't be matching us with inactive (3 months or longer) profiles..

Also as a long time subscriber, I can tell ya, you'll drive yourself nuts trying to figure who viewed you- when- how and where.. I don't even concern myself with that any longer, the only that matters is who I am actually communicating with.
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ISearch4Love is offline ISearch4Love Post #3  October 6,2010, 8:11pm
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TrekRyder10 wrote :
Well according to a recent post from a admin here, I guess now the first view doesn't register.(news to me)
As long as they don't view your pictures.
 
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ISearch4Love wrote :
As long as they don't view your pictures.
huh... learn something new everyday.. makes no sense but nothing surprises me anymore with eH
 
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I actually don't believe the "First View Doesn't Count" story.

I know someone said they got that information from Customer Service, but, as we all know, a lot of EH's Customer Service staff's knowledge base isn't at all top notch.

I suspect if that was told to someone by Tech Support, it was told as a way to get them off the phone....

Ie, the person called in, and asked "Why isn't anyone viewing me???"
Rather than give them the real answer of, "Well, most likely most of your Matches aren't active/paying members", they instead gave them the above bogus line of "First View Doesn't Count".

Why do I suspect this?

When I have Matching on, and get my daily batches of Matches, the ones that "move to the top" *always* show up in my Who's Viewed Me.
It would make no sense that all of them must have looked at my Profile twice. (And thus register on the Who's Viewed Me).
 
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What doesn't count is if they click the send first questions link as opposed to the view profile link. Then it doesn't show up as a view unless they click on the photos.
 
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Is it really so hard to get an explanation from an administrator here?

Kind of reminds of online MMORPGs. Everybody wants to know the equations and inner logic of the game, but the devs keep it all a secret--"We believe there needs to be some mystery in the game".

I do find it odd that women I'm in GC with never have a registered view, or just one. C'mon, at least one time they had to go back and at least look at my profile again I would think. I know I always look at a women's profile again at 3 questions to see if I can come up with a profile related question.
 
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RebornInFire wrote :
Is it really so hard to get an explanation from an administrator here?

Kind of reminds of online MMORPGs. Everybody wants to know the equations and inner logic of the game, but the devs keep it all a secret--"We believe there needs to be some mystery in the game".

I do find it odd that women I'm in GC with never have a registered view, or just one. C'mon, at least one time they had to go back and at least look at my profile again I would think. I know I always look at a women's profile again at 3 questions to see if I can come up with a profile related question.
Actually....if I viewed your profile once and did not archive you, then you passed muster. Chances are I will not look at your actual profile again until I'm about to meet you. Even for the first e-mails, usually the open ended questions give enough fodder for continuing the conversation so to speak that I don't need to look at his profile.

Over time I'm starting to get this impression that men actually scrutinize profiles in minute detail a whole lot more than women. I could be completely off base here....so take it with a grain of salt.
 
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Over time I'm starting to get this impression that men actually scrutinize profiles in minute detail a whole lot more than women. I could be completely off base here....so take it with a grain of salt.
nah..we are just looking at the pictures.

j/k

Men have to 'stand out', and a lot of times that means showing you have been paying attention and not asking generic questions. You need to find a angle, a common interest, or interest of hers that she likes to talk about. Do you want your date to open up "So...tell me about yourself?", or do you want him to open with "I saw you were in Vancouver recently. Did you ever hit up Grandville Island?"
 
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Hi Everyone,

I hope to clear some things up. First, to the OP, Pmf23 – there could be two reasons why matches who communicate with you aren’t showing on your Who’s Viewed Me page.

First, some of the members who’ve been here for longer have “anonymous views” because there used to be an option under the Basic Preferences on the Match Settings page to not allow your matches to see that you specifically viewed them. Before recent updates to our system, these views would have showed up on your Who’s Viewed Me page as “anonymous views”, along with the number of matches who had viewed you anonymously.

Now (post-system update) the members who had set themselves to “anonymous” don’t show up on their matches’ Who’s Viewed Me pages at all. Their views are invisible.

Secondly, your matches’ views may not show up if they in fact didn’t click on your profile, but clicked right into communication. They can do this by going to the My Matches page and clicking on the link for communicating under the Next Steps column. They communicated with you but technically didn’t view your profile.

For the first questions, however, I think it would be unusual to answer someone’s questions without being curious about the profile!

To my understanding, the first view is just as visible as any other view. TrekRyder10, do you have more information on this? I’d be interested to see where this is posted in case I’m missing something. Especially if the admin you’re referring to was me!

Just to clarify, views will show up if the match clicks on the profile, regardless of them looking at the pictures.

Let us know if there are further questions.

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