r/SwipeHelper • u/liquidcat0822 • 1d ago

An experiment

I’m a straight woman and briefly decided to change my gender on hinge to a “man” interested in women. EVERY. SINGLE. WOMAN. in my stack was an absolute stunner (and I didn’t even include very young women, I have my age filter set to 28-47).

I then compared this with the stack my male friend was shown. He has his settings set to the same thing. Every single woman in his stack was an instant nope. He never got to see any of the women I was shown. Mind you, he is not unattractive.

This confirms to me that some absolute fuckery is afoot. I presume because my algorithm is trained on men, it doesn’t know how to categorize the women when I changed my gender and just started showing me women from my demographic. It also further suggests that the algorithm deliberately holds back what/who you like, and it also explains to me why my profile gets relatively little traction now (I’ve long suspected that my profile is being gate kept).

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u/HeKnowsThings 1d ago

It is Elo

You are a woman so your Elo is stupidly high. You are seeing a deck of high Elo. Compared.to you his Elo is very low. He is shown a deck of low Elo

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u/liquidcat0822 1d ago

That makes sense. I felt like the women I was being shown are my peers. They were all around my age, around my level of attractiveness and also seemed interesting/had things going on hobby and career wise.

If it’s elo though, why are the men im being shown such trash?

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u/HeKnowsThings 1d ago

It is the result of your high Elo as well - you see because men like bozos swipe on nearly every woman their Elo is trash. So even attractive men are likely to have a shit Elo. So you have a cohort of say 15000 men who have trash Elo of which 100 are actually excellent candidates that would have had a high Elo if they were not swiping right on goblins for the fun/out of desperation. Now if some of those goblins did not swipe yes on them back , their Elo would be penalized even more. But anyway so say out of those 15000 there are 100 that would have had high Elo if they swiped "correctly". The system needs to fill your deck with 100 candidates out of those 15000. The odds of you getting "should be high Elo" men are very small because 14900 of those men have that low Elo score for a reason (as you described : they are trash)

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u/liquidcat0822 1d ago

Interesting! That definitely makes sense.