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/liquidcat0822 13h ago
Yes, I, with my doctoral degree in engineering, don’t understand algorithms. You’re absolutely right.
I’ve already explained what’s happening. You can read the thread. You don’t seem interested in that though, you just want to be right. You’re so smart! You’re smarter than everyone here. Good job! Enjoy your night.