Relationship Woes and Advice XX: One X Short of an Awesome Title

[Objection]

If I'm reading these right, y'all think I'm saying "imply your feelings for them instead of openly expressing your feelings for them." Other posters (mainly Coidzor and Nix Nihila) have explained my point pretty well, but I should clarify that the distinction I drew was between Person A announcing love/infatuation for Person B, and Person A simply asking out Person B thereby implying attraction but not necessarily love/infatuation. In retrospect, that humorously flippant "whatever" in my post before was probably misleading, since it was only meant to encompass the more intense forms of interest.

Ah, this explains a lot. If the message that is being conveyed is different in each case, then it makes sense that the reaction will be different.

And just to make sure I haven't misunderstood, are you saying that the reason implying is more likely to get some kind of positive reaction is because the less obvious nature means that they don't actually know what message you're implying, and so do not feel the need to make an immediate decision based on that message?

EDIT: Seconding the post below.