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Potential solution: make photos and text bios disjoint. That is, imagine a tinder-like app where 50% of the things shown to you are photos and 50% are bios. B

Potential solution: make photos and text bios disjoint. That is, imagine a tinder-like app where 50% of the things shown to you are photos and 50% are bios. But they are all mixed up so you don’t know whose photo matches to whose bio. You only “match” with someone if you swipe right on their photo and their bio.

Guest0918231 7y ago
In that case people would swipe on just the attractive users and on every bio without reading them. A simple fix would be to only allow users to swipe on 20% of the photos and 20% of the bios.
- sandoooo 7y ago
  I am going to defeat your system by swiping on the top 20% looks and bottom 20% bios. And everybody else will follow suit once they realize it's an effective strategy. And you'll have a race to bottom.
  - Guest0918231 7y ago
    What's the bottom 20% of bios? "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best"? Are you suggesting that attractive people have terrible bios? If so, you're probably right and it would be a decent strategy. That being said, it seems silly to try and force people that only care about looks into caring about bios. Who are we to tell them how to select a partner? Maybe they would be most happy with an attractive partner that doesn't share any of their interests. If that's who they want to find, then instead of telling them they're wrong, we should help them do it.
    - im3w1l 7y ago
      He is saying that he only cares for looks, so he'll go for the less in-demand bios to improve chance of a match.
  - isoskeles 7y ago
    I doubt the bottom 20% of bios would be distinct from the bottom 80%. So, good luck figuring out the difference.
b0rsuk 7y ago
Another compromise could be a micropayment to get a photo. All else is free.
INTPenis 7y ago
I'd rather make it like this: you only see the bio until you "like" the person. And only then can you message them or see their pictures. You can unlike to prevent this from happening and it would be nice with a slight delay in notification to the person you liked so they're not swamped with likes and unlikes because people are trying to beat the system.

Guest0918231 7y ago

In that case people would swipe on just the attractive users and on every bio without reading them. A simple fix would be to only allow users to swipe on 20% of the photos and 20% of the bios.

sandoooo 7y ago
I am going to defeat your system by swiping on the top 20% looks and bottom 20% bios. And everybody else will follow suit once they realize it's an effective strategy. And you'll have a race to bottom.
- Guest0918231 7y ago
  What's the bottom 20% of bios? "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best"? Are you suggesting that attractive people have terrible bios? If so, you're probably right and it would be a decent strategy. That being said, it seems silly to try and force people that only care about looks into caring about bios. Who are we to tell them how to select a partner? Maybe they would be most happy with an attractive partner that doesn't share any of their interests. If that's who they want to find, then instead of telling them they're wrong, we should help them do it.
  - im3w1l 7y ago
    He is saying that he only cares for looks, so he'll go for the less in-demand bios to improve chance of a match.
- isoskeles 7y ago
  I doubt the bottom 20% of bios would be distinct from the bottom 80%. So, good luck figuring out the difference.

b0rsuk 7y ago

Another compromise could be a micropayment to get a photo. All else is free.

INTPenis 7y ago

I'd rather make it like this: you only see the bio until you "like" the person. And only then can you message them or see their pictures. You can unlike to prevent this from happening and it would be nice with a slight delay in notification to the person you liked so they're not swamped with likes and unlikes because people are trying to beat the system.