Okay, here's my own rather long-winded take on the subject.
I posted two or three times in the UK section of personals. None of them produced any positive results whatsoever.
However I have actually met three very liberated and wonderful girls because of my membership of the TMF and have tickled all three of them nearly to death. How? Well look at the TMF like some sort of meeting hall, exclusive to ticklers. Each forum is a room in said hall. Most members will automatically gravitate towards the bigger and more populous rooms like Tickling and General Discussion. Smaller rooms with fewer people in, will be of less interest. (Particularly to female members I assume, as any one of them could set a tickle-date with a male member within ten minutes of actively trying to. Female members have the upper hand on us chaps because there will never be a shortage of us to volunteer to meet in real life. The ladies have more safety issues with this scenario and because of the disparity in the membership numbers, can also pretty much pick and choose who they care to talk to and never be short of tickling conversation.)
Posts in forums like Personals by female members are in a huge minority compared to the males. When a guy posts there all a gal generally learns about him is that he's a guy, his location and that he loves tickling females/being tickled by them. (No offence intended to gay TMF'ers.) It's very unlikely that a girl would respond to that as I imagine they would want to know a lot more about someone before discussing meeting in real life. All three of the ladies I've met and tickled I've become aquaintances with in the chat room, or by posting on the boards. It developed over a period of time. Two of the three I actually knew and spoke to frequently for about 12 months before we arranged to meet. To my knowledge, none of them has responded to a post (or posted there themselves) in the Personals boards. The TMF is very much like said meeting hall that way. If you go into one of the smaller rooms and say not much else besides that you're a guy and you want to sadisticly tickle a girl, chances are you won't get much in the way of results.
So here's my closing advice to anyone who wants to meet people through the TMF. Treat the TMF as you would any real life meeting place. Go in and get to know people. Find out about them and show an interest in them as people rather than as objects of tickling fantasies. After all you wouldn't walk into a social club, get a mic, state what your hobbies are and then expect a compatible date to just walk up to you, would you? And finally, be prepared to have it take many months. After all, the internet has a very bad reputation for women turning up to meet guys and they turn out to be mad axe-murderers. It takes a lot of time for a lady to know and trust someone well enough to want to risk meeting them in real life.