As I mentioned in a previous thread, fortunate to live in a target rich area.  Therefore, have adopted an elimination strategy for new SB's  

Filter settings: 25 miles from my location, at least some college, nonsmoker, social drinker, curvy and below, no platonic.

I like women  pretty and above.  Looks are important.

Curvy can be nice curves in the right places or completely unacceptable.  Those describing themselves as curvy must demonstrate the former via pictures.  Same for average build.

The following are instant "hide profile":  Nose rings, neck tattoos, no pictures, horrible grammar, fingernails so long rendering the hands non-functional, profile picture with ID badge from my company, sticking tongue out in profile picture, grandiose needs: private jet, expensive shopping sprees,etc..., profiles that lecture "Don't waste my time...".

First off, we agree on "curvy and below" I filter out the fatties so I don't even see their profiles and like you I even look at "curvy" with severe skepticism. Curvy is often just another synonym for FAT.  so can average, and I have even seen several POT SB's who describe themselves as "slim" that I found to be anything but "slim" lol

 
Platonic, no pics,  and profiles that start off with a lecture also don't get a second glance from me.

 
That said, I do NOT live in a "target rich" area so I don't find myself excluding women for such minor "flaws" as nose rings, tats, or bad grammar. I also have found a lot of new SB think that they are "supposed" to ask for things like trips to Europe etc who really aren't demanding women at all. Many of them quickly realize the reality of what they can really expect and who are very happy getting a few extra bucks for spending money for doing what they've been doing for free ever since puberty. I will say, if their attitude AFTER we start talking smacks of GPS, I will immediately terminate the conversation, but I will give the BOD until they start making ridiculous demands.

While I agree with some of your filters, I think you may be over-filtering a bit, namely:

"platonic" CAN mean she is open to that as an option, but is slutty as the rest  lol  Can also mean she inserted that tag to cover her ass in case an occasional BF (or others) discovers her profile.  Probably 80% really mean "platonic" so the ROI is low.

"light smoker" usually means she is 420 friendly, and for me, if they use some kind of vaping device, I actually prefer it to a girl who might drink heavily.

Yeah, I have trouble with "princess," spoil me," pamper me" but sometimes the new ones are just testing the waters and are a lot more down to earth after you communicate with them.

I deal mostly with less than 20yo set, so poor grammar, tongue out, and other dumb stuff is to be expected!

Just today, I realized that ALL of my SB's are slim, so I am giving up on searching "curvy." I believe all curvies are overweight - it's just by how much. Trust me, a girl with DD's and slim will always list herself as "slim."

Curvy can mean anything all the way up to morbidly obese.

with C cups (natural or enhanced doesn't matter), and I have found in all my years in P4P that the MAJORITY of girls describing themselves as "curvy" were too fat for my tastes, so I tend to take a harder look at those before taking the plunge.  

It's got to be a HUGE number, but like you, I consider that a good thing. C is my favorite size on a slim, but not tiny woman. Full B's on a girl of 90 lbs is VERY "busty" and C's can look rather "top heavy" on a girl that size. OTOH, I kind of like D's on even a slim woman who is 5' 7" or taller.  

 
But back to "curvy" Curvy on SA tends to mean FAT, just like "athletic" on TER tends mean a woman built more like a Bulgarian weight lifter than a Russian Ballet dancer. lol

 
I used to filter out "curvy" on SA, but on rare occasions I have found a couple of SB's that meet the "good definition" of curvy, not many, but enough that I stopped filtering them out.

Good point on BOD.  Adjusting strategy.

I deal primarily with the late 20's set.  Have found that this age range to be more reliable, realistic and the ratio of energy input from 1st contact to BCD's is more favorable.  Can't tolerate smoking or vaping, but 420 is totally OK...but that's my thing.  

Will agree with your tolerance for the initial ridiculous requests.  Perhaps I am missing on some potentials.  However, I have limited time bandwidth and try to wean out those that are less likely to match what I tend to offer.

Well, you are exactly right - it often comes down to bandwidth or what I call ROI.  Typically I screen with a very narrow filter and rarely move up past "athletic" bc most of the girls 'downsize' by at least one body type.  I never cease to be amazed at their ability to capture the perfect photo angle that shaves off 10-20 lbs!  

However, on a lazy Sunday early evening, which seems to be prime hunting time in my city, I have a second super-open filter where I waste 2-3 hours slugging though hippo country and profiles with absolutely no entries.  Just shotgun message a dozen or so and try to clean up the carnage later that night  lol

Okay, I don't live in a "target rich environment", but even near my small town, there are more Sbs than I could ever have time for. I used to use a pretty tight fliter: age/slim/athletic but I've changed that.

Some Sbs just don't know that "curvy" is often a synonym for fat. Some of the sweet young things don't like putting a body type so they put "other". Some of the "other"'s have been quite gorgeous.

It honestly doesn't take much time to scroll through the profiles, although I get it that this would be more onerous in a large metropolitan area. However, I think you may miss some gems if you overfilter....

Distance; plus 100 miles from my location.  That's the only way to include the nearest University city.
Age: 18-35  and TBH I rarely date anyone over 25
Body type: Slim, Athletic and Average only. And I rarely date any other than slim.  

This set of filters yields about 1200 hits. Does that seem like many or few to you guys?  Of those, only 300 have been active on the site within the past week.  I figure there's no point sending a message to anyone who's currently inactive, so I usually only have about 300 to browse if I'm going for a full on trolling session.  But here's the thing.  There's usually a bunch of new profiles every week.  Recently the entire first page, 25 profiles, were new ones posted in the past 6 days.  Yet the 1200 total remains very consistent, so there must be as many leaving the site as joining.  If I simply log on every day and check all the new profiles, I know I've seen everyone who meets my criteria and don't really need to go much deeper into the search results.  Plus it give me the advantage of often being the first SD they encounter, which allows me to control the dialog and the allowance conversation.  

One more search criteria tip, especially if you are traveling and seeking a SB in your destination city.  Use the fewest search criteria you are comfortable with, but include those looking for friends with benefits.  Those are the ones who are DTF!

I think most guys in any kind of decent sized city are going to get a LOT more hits than you or I. I don't live in Pussy Siberia as their is a college with an enrollment of about 10,000 students in my small city, but I only get a couple of hundred hits when searching just my town.  

 
I live about 130 miles or so from Dallas, so a 100 mile search just barely touches the outer suburbs. I tried doing the same  100 mile search, but used a different city about 50 miles closer to Dallas and got the "over 10,000" result.  

 
My normal search is just a bit more expansive than yours. I don't filter by age, but like you I rarely see anyone over about 25 although I will confess I have been very happy with the handful of "over 30" girls that I have seen. As for body type I only exclude fatties, those that either are "a few extra pounds" and "full/overweight" I don't filter out "other" or "curvy" but I will agree with anyone who says that they are "almost always" fatties, but with such a small pool to choose from I don't want to let any potential keepers get away. If I were in a target rich environment I would almost certainly filter them out like most of you do.

 
One of the other things I do "just in case" to make sure I don't miss any new hotties is to occasionally do a search by "newest" instead of "recently active"

Yes, I always sort for newest, and then also recently active.  And I sometimes do a search just for curvy and occasionally have uncovered some gems who really should have identified themselves as slim, but they didn't understand that on SA curvy means overweight. I also live in Pussy Siberia, that is, if I was limited to my own town.  When I limit my search to "only in this location" I get a whopping 104 total!  But luckily just 60 miles away there's a city with two universities, total enrollment over 50,000! So my location plus 100 miles yields 1200 more or less consistently.  

I don't normally filter for age,  I usually just filter out the fatties, but when I do a search for 18-35 with of course fatties being screened out, or at least as best you can filter for fatties. I've met a few that listed as "slim" who were forty pounds overweight IMO, but we do our best. lol AAR  Even with a small college just a mile or so from me, I too only come up with total hits of about 100 as well. Of the hundred that are currently still listed I have contacted or been contacted by about 25, met with 10 and fucked five, two of whom are still in my current rotation.  

 
Again going to a hundred mile search, I too have a college with an enrollment of about 40,000 about 90 miles away, which combined with the small college of about 10,000 a mile or so from me gives me about the same 50,000 within a hundred miles just like you.

 
I guess I should be thankful that I no longer live in Dallas, with an area as target rich as Dallas, I'd probably have a rotation in the dozens. lol

Maybe it's a coded binary limit? 1024 = 2^10. Maybe their computer code maxes out the search results at 1024 (plus some check digits to account for 12 bit code). I feel sorry for #1025 who is missing out on the cut, time after time. I wonder who she is ... ?

I was surprised by the similar numbers too.  It just proves that you don't need to be in a big city to find lots of sweet pussy.  You just need to refine your Sugar Game and then work it!