Its author should be proud. I've seen the post shared in multiple non-Reddit cheaty forums across multiple platforms. So, I'll use it as a rubric of sorts:

Neither a guilt king, fuckboy, flake, nor degenerate, and my wife and I have been emotionally and surgically out of the more-kids game for nearly a decade.

Have the attention span for a treatise (though, props to the author's AP, who, despite, at her assertion, not having said attention span, managed to get the sweetheart deal of still benefiting from his AP's personalized Cliffs Notes version in bed. Good on you, dude).

Have the time, privacy, money, and mental wherewithal for an affair.

Fully concede that I may unintentionally be a creep, but also calculate that someone with the self-awareness to be willing to admit that concession is at least less likely to be so. So maybe, just maybe I'm in the handful of nice guys who are not.

Also concede that I furrowed my brow a bit at the immediate conflation of not having "a type," with desperation. I suppose, given the dross that reddit ladies have to deal with on the daily, it would stand to reason they'd consider it dubious that an emotional connection might just influence how attractive even a male finds somebody. Now, to the author's credit, she did allow for the theoretical possibility that a guy might just find himself attracted to different types of women, but I further furrowed my brow that UPON said unlikelihood, only at THAT point ought one focus on things they do for sure want in an AP, naming points such as geography, emotional connection, and desired frequency of communication. Call me naive (many have before), but those are more the kinds of things I thought a decent AP WOULD care about.

I don't shoot my shot. I don't often respond to ads, and that's because I only ever respond when I meet every listed criterion.

No lies about my height, and I strictly follow the author's recommendation of keeping my age listing within one year of actual (and have moved it both directions). And because opsec is indeed important, I remain appropriately generic about both my location and occupation, and encourage those with whom I communicate to do the same.

If it's important enough for her to include in an ad, especially a question or prompt, it deserves to be answered in one's response to the ad. And despite my (displayed) character flaw of wordiness, I do attempt to proofread replies.

Okay, the dick pic thing confuses me too. I mean, I get that it makes sense in a neanderthal way that if a guy wants something from a gal (presumably nude pictures), it would make sense to said neanderthal to give her what HE wants her to give him, in hope that she reciprocates in kind. Rest assured, I'm fully aware that in general, a woman's mind does indeed NOT work that way. (And, as long as I'm here, may I apologize for, well, a clearly MUCH too high percentage of my gender.)

If a conversation has run its course, that's great. No harm, no foul. If I'm the party who has come to that determination, I make it a point to thank the person for the chat and mention generically that we appear not to be a match. I gather that I'm in the minority in my gender for how gracefully I take that same information from someone. Again, apologies. And for that reason, I understand why ladies, once reaching that determination, simply stop communicating. Still, when a person is willing to denote the conversation has run its course, I'm appreciative that she is willing to say so, and genuinely wish her the best. We all could use it, right?

Rational adults are not too prideful or embarrassed to discuss any medical needs with their primary care physician. Easy enough concept.

As is likely obvious from this response treatise, I have no problem with communicating. The author specified further, however (because I also recognize that vomit-of-the-keyboard is indeed different from productive communication), that being upfront and open about when one can and can't communicate is important. I agree and endeavor to be transparent on that front.

And lastly, and unrelated to this ad, the author concluded by (admirably) opening herself up to the inevitable onslaught of DMs in volunteering to critique ads. Eesh. Hats off, and best of luck!