Quote: (09-27-2018 03:22 AM)Kieran Wrote:
I downloaded it just over a week ago as I decided to have a look at online dating after always being against it. Quality on there is awful in general and I find I have to swipe left 20 + times before finding someone to swipe right on. There are however some absolute stunners on there which surprised me (albeit very few and far between). I got quite a lot of matches even swiping right only occasionally (tinder sent me a notification saying that I'd killed it in my first week with more than 95 matches).
Kieran, of course Tinder sent you that! And predictably, it boosted your morale, self-esteem and confidence. After all, you proudly posted here that they told that "you killed it". It's like a video game, Tinder gamifies the whole thing. You didn't
really kill any of these monsters to save the virgin from being devoured. You were seating on a chair in a freaking room, that's all. Similar thing happening with Tinder. It wants you to believe there are so many women out there, just waiting to be poked! For any average man, who naturally doesn't see that many pretty girls daily (unless you live in certain EE cities), seeing a few dozen or hundreds of them over a day's swiping is an experience making your brain go into overdrive - but that's on all purpose (as per my explanation below) to wrap up its tentacles over your libido. You must only use the Tinder app (or any, in general means that are online way of meeting women) and believe that's
the only viable way to get sex. Luckily, on the forum we have many a player advocating other approaches (and you, yourself, prefer, it seems, to go the analogue way) and just as many guys there are pro-Tinder, there are against it (myself included). Tinder manipulates all of the user experience only and only for its financial gains. You're just a tiny cog in their machine.
So you say, "you killed it". The truth is, however, harsh. You'd very likely get the same message with half as many matches or whatever. Would you keep using it if the sent you that "You're pathetic, your chances to get a date are lower than 84% other men"?
The T behavioural reinforcement algorithm is designed so that a newcomer will get as positive as possible experience, which is going to dwindle with time. They want you to get hooked and experience good dopamine hit first couple weeks or so, so once the number of matches/dates/lays decreases, just to get the same hit, you'll be much more likely to fork out the money for the paid option. In other words, your
current experience, as you've just joined, will
not be a statistically representative one over entire lifetime of using the app (proviso you'll use it for longer than a couple weeks). I don't know the inner workings of the T algo, but I wouldn't be surprised your matches will decrease in a logarithmic fashion.
Tinder algo can't run agnostically and let the matches follow a simple, evolutionarily driven assortative mating algorithm to pair people up, for you'd have too many a man getting absolutely nothing (read: they wouldn't pay for the paid option but delete it). Tinder
has to, for financial reasons, use an algo that will maximise its catchment so the can have as many on the paid subscription as possible. Hence, as it is only males who pay (in the current version), you want to have an algo that will always re-direct "lucrative" (read: matches that are pretty, chatty and making for good experience - all that data is stored, analysed and acted upon) to newcomers to get them hooked. However, as Tinder is in the business of making money and to increase its revenue, it needs to keep luring new men to use it, hence, an obvious conclusion can be inferred: always be the newcomer on the scene which means, you should set up a new Tinder account every couple weeks or so.
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