I recently went through my list of favorites on Seeking and edited it ruthlessly!  Since I tend to favorite every profile that passes this low bar:  Is she local and would I fuck her if I could?  I wind up with many favorites!  But I eliminated all of the ones who have not been active for several months, who never answered my messages (if I sent any), or who for some other reason I've decided are not viable prospects.  So my current list of favorites is down to only 73.  Is that a lot or a few?  How many favorites do you have on your list?

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sweetman is talking about his list of favorite SB's on Seeking, while Mr. Fisher is talking about his list of favorite providers on TER.

I've never counted my faves. Nor do I refer to them very much unless it's during a consistent message thread. I change cities frequently and sometimes refer back to see what local chicks have favorited me. The SA platform is very weak for searching and organizing, but perhaps I am missing some method of better using faves to my advantage.

I use favorites in a similar fashion.  Although I scrub mine every couple of weeks due to whatever.  Usually its bc I sent a message(s) that have not been opened in 2 weeks or something like that.  

I never use favorites, so "0" to answer Sweetman's question.

I know you meant it as a joke but I didn't get it. Who is Ruth? Please explain.

It obviously doesn't cost anything to favorite someone, and some guys do this as "bookmarks" so they can find these gals later, without messaging right away.  If you can keep track of them, I don't see a problem.
I've found that the hotties are generally not going to initiate anything because they get so many messages, and you really have to push them with one or two messages telling them you're interested.
If they're not active, they're not going to see your messages. They might get an email if they get notificiations but it's generally best to message them when they are online.

Depends on the site, but at Secret Benefits I use favorites as bookmarks for those I've contacted.

One more way I like to use favorites on Seeking is that while most of them my favorites are locals, some few are SBs in other cities I have met while traveling or think I might like to contact when traveling.  They all show up in the same lineup when I open the favorites file under the  interests tab.  But if I only want to view my local interests, then I hit Search, do my local search results and filter  them for favorited under Options.  That way I only see the locals I've favorited.  

I do this frequently.  If someone doesn't respond after a few days, I get rid of them.

First, any SB who has sent me a message or who I have sent a message gets favorited.  I will only remove them if/when their profile location changes to something non-local.  

I wanted to fuck a Dr Ruth once … Not!

As part of the the “seeking council” (aka bullshit), they should have “folders”, or “buckets”.