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> By making girls making the first move, you empower girls, you prevent them to get a insulting message from all your matches, you make them feel they decide. G
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c 6y ago
> By making girls making the first move, you empower girls, you prevent them to get a insulting message from all your matches, you make them feel they decide. Girls are happy of this environment and stay on the app.
Respectfully, that doesn't make sense. All you did is introduce another step before the male sends them an insulting message. Previously they would get the message right away, now they get it after saying "hi" and pressing the Send button. I still see the "women go first" as pure marketing, with no real empirical backing of being empowering.
Maybe the genius of this is that it forces the woman to re-examine the profile of the match one more time after the swipe to see if this is someone they would actually want to talk to. It forces a second sanity check of the match. I could see that argument, but I'm not fully buying it.
- polote 6y agoYes, what is the percentage of match that become conversations? less than 50%? that's already a win of a factor 2, plus what you described. But I don't think it was designed as a genius move, that was just the idea at the beginning and it ended up being a positive workflow
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 6y agoLet's grant that's the point of the feature. I don't mean to take this into a culture wars direction, but, this sounds less "empowering" to me and more along the lines of "Hey female user, we know you already expressed interest in this male user by swiping right, but are you really, really sure you actually want to talk to him?". That's a pretty far stretch for the term "empowering".
- polote 6y agoI should have said, make girls feel empowered, my mistake.