Maybe I just haven't read the book, but the phrasing of those rules makes them sound like pretty uncourteous and downright a**hole things to do. Maybe you need to use that to weed out certain kinds of men. Clearly mine isn't the typical male experience. Just like cylon's using his no free drinks rule. The catch is the ladies in the thread are basically saying that "you won't just filter our the undesirables, you'll also filter out the good ones...like me!" Which is true with any filter. It filters out a lot of the bad stuff but also occasionally the good stuff. If you think that you're more likely to find what you're looking for in the filtered selectoin than in the whole of the unfiltered selection, then filtering makes sense.
Ever heard of the
Evolutionary arms race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ? That's the situation we're dealing with here. Sure, the people in this thread are a bit more aware of things.
Wikipedia is full of interesting things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_effect