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> Even when you are aware of it, and game it to increase your own visibility, its a very toxic way to treat other people How does gaming it work if it depends

> Even when you are aware of it, and game it to increase your own visibility, its a very toxic way to treat other people How does gaming it work if it depends on other people's actions?

Jarwain 6y ago
Optimize for conventional attraction?
vmception 6y ago
Depends on others and your own. You basically have to act as discerning as actually visually ideal people will be acting. Matching everyone means matching already skipped people, which lowers your algorithm desirability to their level. More desired people wont even see your profile after that point. You wont appear in their feed and they aren't paying to see the whole queue of their matches. So it is more important to imagine your desirability score than it is to amplify reach by matching more hoping for a bite. As far as actually refining your profile, you’ll have to figure that out either way. A/B test, do whatever, thats its own separate art. But making sure it stays visible means being discerning. Takes several weeks for the algorithms to set you in place, and several weeks to change. So best to keep yourself distracted with other things, otherwise it'll just hurt your self esteem until more consensus-attractive people start matching you.
- eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
  Thanks for clarifying! So let me rephrase this to ascertain I understood you correctly: Your algorithm is basically "swipe 'NO!' upon all the non-very-beautiful people to get yourself put into the 'very beautiful people' bin by Tinder and then hope that it eventually shows you to people in that bin", right? If yes, that's funny, because that's what I would do anyway without even wanting to game the system: I think it is a rude waste of people's time if you date them even though you don't think they're attractive :) Prevents them from meeting someone who actually does.
  - vmception 6y ago
    The frequency of matches can be so low that people begin to swipe YES on almost all matches, hoping to see who bites. On an app like Tinder, it inadvertently or intentionally makes that easy to rationalize. This is A strategy, but it practically ensures being in the less attractive bin and never even shown to people in the other bins. Regarding rude waste of time, people adjust their standards, just like in the physical world.

> Even when you are aware of it, and game it to increase your own visibility, its a very toxic way to treat other people How does gaming it work if it depends on other people's actions?

Jarwain 6y ago

Optimize for conventional attraction?

vmception 6y ago

Depends on others and your own. You basically have to act as discerning as actually visually ideal people will be acting. Matching everyone means matching already skipped people, which lowers your algorithm desirability to their level. More desired people wont even see your profile after that point. You wont appear in their feed and they aren't paying to see the whole queue of their matches. So it is more important to imagine your desirability score than it is to amplify reach by matching more hoping for a bite. As far as actually refining your profile, you’ll have to figure that out either way. A/B test, do whatever, thats its own separate art. But making sure it stays visible means being discerning. Takes several weeks for the algorithms to set you in place, and several weeks to change. So best to keep yourself distracted with other things, otherwise it'll just hurt your self esteem until more consensus-attractive people start matching you.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying! So let me rephrase this to ascertain I understood you correctly: Your algorithm is basically "swipe 'NO!' upon all the non-very-beautiful people to get yourself put into the 'very beautiful people' bin by Tinder and then hope that it eventually shows you to people in that bin", right? If yes, that's funny, because that's what I would do anyway without even wanting to game the system: I think it is a rude waste of people's time if you date them even though you don't think they're attractive :) Prevents them from meeting someone who actually does.
- vmception 6y ago
  The frequency of matches can be so low that people begin to swipe YES on almost all matches, hoping to see who bites. On an app like Tinder, it inadvertently or intentionally makes that easy to rationalize. This is A strategy, but it practically ensures being in the less attractive bin and never even shown to people in the other bins. Regarding rude waste of time, people adjust their standards, just like in the physical world.