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> Tinder calls each user’s ranking his or her “elo score.” The term comes from the world of professional chess, where elo scores are used to rank players. If an

> Tinder calls each user’s ranking his or her “elo score.” The term comes from the world of professional chess, where elo scores are used to rank players. If an average player beats a grandmaster, her score increases significantly. So there is a penalty for swiping right always. All the people claiming that folks should swipe right always and then select from matches were wrong.

EGreg 11y ago
That's a non sequitur. The ELO is calculated when someone swipes right on YOU. When you swipe right or left on a woman, you are affecting her ELO, not your own.
- djhn 11y ago
  Hopefully corrected by your enthusias/selectiveness towards everyone in general.
shoyer 11y ago
It's still not clear to me that there's any feedback to the user based on how they swipe. Tinder could simply be adjusting scores of the people being rated. I can see the feedback loop going very wrong if how you rate others has a significant impact impact on your own attractiveness score. I don't think it serves Tinder's interests to reward people for swiping left more often -- they benefit when people use their platform, which requires getting matches. I'm sure Tinder has experimented with penalizing users who always swipe right, but probably not by adjusting the attractiveness nob. Always swiping right doesn't make you any less attractive, but it might suggest you're less likely to engage when someone likes you back. If Tinder is optimizing for maximizing user engagement, this would naturally enter into their pairing algorithm in a different way. That said, the last thing Tinder wants to do is discourage the hypothetical "super user" who is very attractive, always swipes right and goes on tons of dates.
raverbashing 11y ago
The second sentence does not conclude from the first Because even when "swiping right always" people will filter the obvious non-matches Especially given Tinder limits amount of right swipes for free plans.

EGreg 11y ago

That's a non sequitur. The ELO is calculated when someone swipes right on YOU. When you swipe right or left on a woman, you are affecting her ELO, not your own.

djhn 11y ago
Hopefully corrected by your enthusias/selectiveness towards everyone in general.

shoyer 11y ago

It's still not clear to me that there's any feedback to the user based on how they swipe. Tinder could simply be adjusting scores of the people being rated. I can see the feedback loop going very wrong if how you rate others has a significant impact impact on your own attractiveness score. I don't think it serves Tinder's interests to reward people for swiping left more often -- they benefit when people use their platform, which requires getting matches. I'm sure Tinder has experimented with penalizing users who always swipe right, but probably not by adjusting the attractiveness nob. Always swiping right doesn't make you any less attractive, but it might suggest you're less likely to engage when someone likes you back. If Tinder is optimizing for maximizing user engagement, this would naturally enter into their pairing algorithm in a different way. That said, the last thing Tinder wants to do is discourage the hypothetical "super user" who is very attractive, always swipes right and goes on tons of dates.

raverbashing 11y ago

The second sentence does not conclude from the first Because even when "swiping right always" people will filter the obvious non-matches Especially given Tinder limits amount of right swipes for free plans.