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by torben-friis 2400 days ago
>Q: I didn't get any match even tough Tinder tells me that I >got X+ likes!?

>A: Several reasons could explain that: >[...] >They are not in your elo anymore [...]

Kinda creepy that you can like a person, that person likes you too, and yet the algorithm might override your choice and decide to not create the match.

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> yet the algorithm might override your choice and decide to not create the match

I believe part of the motivation for this is to keep the experience good for straight women. If straight women leave the app, it's going to die.

Because straight women often have more potential matches than they can go through, Tinder is more aggressive about prioritizing those.

If they present a woman with a man whose score was high, he might be physically attractive enough for her, but he might have "behaved badly" in recent conversations and therefore be low-value match for her in the end. If she keeps getting matches with men who behave badly when chatting starts, she'll probably quit the app.

Among my straight female friends who use Tinder, harassment fatigue is the #1 reason they quit or take breaks.

What kind of elo do you have on tinder anyway?
It's a combination of how many people are swiping left/right on you and the ELO of said people.
It’s no or more less creepy than Facebook or Twitter deciding which of your friends’ posts you will read today (as well as which you will not), and pretty much every internet-connected person on Earth has settled for and accepted this, so I guess this is what we get now.
oz exists in our algorithms now