When you're dating online, sell your best features, don't write a sanctimonious screed.
Online dating is about advertising yourself. What are your best qualities? Your most charming quirks? What do you like to do, eat, watch and listen to? What are you looking for in a partner?
Unfortunately, in the process of writing up a flattering self-summary, a lot of online daters cross over from "a rose-tinted view of oneself" and into "full-on ego blast." And the worst of those are the sanctimonious people who go on self-righteous rants about how they're awesome and 100 percent correct in their views, and you're awful and judgmental in comparison. Take, for example, Ms. Super Vegetarian:
Or maybe I'm just mad because I am a heart-crushingly weak lover of bacon.
Sanctimony isn't just for the lefties though. Conservatives also have it in spades: