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> And if so, how has Tinder not fixed that already?! It's not a particularly hard problem to kill off all but the most determined bots. Or are they not motivat
by notyourday 5y ago
> And if so, how has Tinder not fixed that already?! It's not a particularly hard problem to kill off all but the most determined bots. Or are they not motivated to do so due to it inflating user numbers?
Most of bots pay Tinder, which is how they get the "unlimited likes", ability to change location and ability to pull those that "liked" them. Cleaning up bots will wipe out a significant portion of tinder revenue.
- bob33212 5y agoSome percentage of the users may be OK with not knowing if there are bots. Get a few attractive "people" to match with you, get a self esteem boost and move on with your day. And there is the lottery element. What if this one isn't a bot and actually picked me out of the thousands of other options.
- notyourday 5y agoThis does not answer why Tinder does not get rid of bots. Bots running on paid accounts does.
- bob33212 5y agoYes it does, it increases daily usage
- notyourday 5y agoTinder is money printing machine via subscriptions. It does not give a two cents about daily usage metrics popular among VC supported or advertiser centric companies that don't have a product its users want to pay for.
- bob33212 5y agoThey care about those metrics because they know the conversion rate on those users.