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Dude, do yourself a favor, just remove any form of "You're hot" from your vocabulary. Like LyricalDream said, you mustn't just hand out compliments like that.
Whether you like it or not, she gets approached many times a day and has to choose from all the guys trying to talk to her. If you want to win this competition in her mind, you have to fight the fight, play the game, and these are the rules of that game.
I buy this only to the extent that, in club game, if your value is very low (i.e. you're standing around by yourself looking nervous, and then approach) then a compliment will come off as rapport seeking and value sucking (the classic "nice-guy" attitude of trying to win favour with buying her shit or not risking breaking rapport).
HOWEVER, opening with a balls-out, confident approach and a compliment, and acting congruent with that frame - body-language, tonality and delivery wise - is a GREAT way to begin an interaction, precisely because very FEW men do this during the day at all, and possibly at night but usually when they're very drunk.
The frame to set is basically the idea that something about her (her beauty, the way she carries herself, her fashion, etc.) really struck you and you had to come over and find out more about her. In this way, you're saying "yeah, so you have something going for you I like, now, what kind of PERSON are you, let's get to know each other." In that way, you're not putting all your cards on the table and giving her lots of power, because she has to still work to show she's cool and interesting and fun, and you can give her tons of qualification and compliance hoops to jump through to maintain dominance over the situation, screen, and get her to emotionally invest in the interaction with you. However, starting with the compliment shows your sexual intent right off the bat, so if she isn't at all interested, you'll know and won't spend 30 minutes ploughing before she says she has a boyfriend or is a lesbian.
Finally, even if you're going very indirect (the pussy way out in my opinion) and you get to the qualification and comfort stage after 30 minutes or an hour of pussyfooting around the issue, you still have to compliment her on SOMETHING about herself after she's opened up to you about all this stuff and you're trying to connect with her on some kind of meaningful emotional level. What are you gonna do when she tells you about having to raise her sister and brother because her dad walked out when she was 3 and this has made her a really strong person emotionally? Neg her?