One specific message is enough to start. If they reply, you have a conversation. If they do not, a second message a few days later can mention one thing from their profile that you did not use the first time. A third message is you talking to yourself.
Silence is an answer. People are busy, and people are also not interested. You cannot tell those apart from the outside, and you do not need to. Another paragraph will not settle it. Stop, and write to someone else.
Do not send the same hello from a second account. Do not look up their email or their workplace to ask why they did not reply. That is not persistence. When a reply comes, it comes on Only Dating.
A short reply is still a reply. "Thanks, but I'm not looking for that" is a finished conversation. One polite line back is plenty. Do not reopen it next week with a new angle. You already know.
If the conversation was warm and then went quiet, one check-in is fair. "Happy to leave it if the timing is wrong" gives them an easy way to say so. After that, leave it. Chasing a quiet person makes any later meeting start in a deficit.
You can block them if seeing the thread bothers you. You do not owe a closing speech. The guide on a first message is about how to begin. This one is about stopping when they already have.
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