[smt88]

> 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.