See I get Alex saying its the ELO score, in no way

Have you experienced a bug in Hinge that only shows you fat/ugly chicks?

Over the past year+, many users on the Hinge subreddit as well as a few in the Game commnuity have reported an unfortunate bug in Hinge where they only see the lowest-rated users in their Discover section. I'm doing a survey to see if we can crowdsource some information on why this might be happening. If this has happened to you, please leave a comment on the following thread in the Hinge subreddit: Investigative survey for users experiencing Hinge's bug that only displays the least-attractive users in Discover

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Mj Al

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5y ago

See I get Alex saying its the ELO score, in no way will i claim no know anywhere near as much as him. But if it is the ELO score, then hinge has a weird way of showing it. I mean I'm using the same profile on Bumble and Tinder and i see plenty of very attractive women. Hinge, on the other hand, it takes me like 30 minutes to get through my free likes because of how many unattractive women i see, and in all honesty in my months on other apps I've never seen this level of unattractive women. I'm not claiming to have amazing pictures, mine are probably like a 6-7/10 each, but like as a guy who's a 5/10 thats not terrible (still working on getting better pics, every opportunity i get when out with friends i snap some so its in progress definitely not done). So idk i wouldn't be surprised if its a bug, but if it is the ELO score i might have to save Hinge for when I really perfect my profile. I honestly thought i heard Alex say they abandoned the ELO score stuff recently but i guess i was mistaken.

Pancake Mouse

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5y ago

It's not the Elo score, Alex misunderstood the issue. What you and I have experienced is a bug (or potentially something more nefarious) where Hinge's sorting algorithm gets reversed and you see the most unattractive users first.

Can you let me know the following?

If you've ever been knowingly banned or shadowbanned on either Tinder or Hinge
If you use shirtless or provocative photos on Hinge
If this persists for you despite creating a new account
If this happens shortly after creating your account, or after swiping for a while
If it gets better after swiping for a while, or after a number of days
If it's gotten better after visiting another city and coming back to your city

Hoping we can pool our knowledge to get more insight into what's going on here.

Thanks.

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Mj Al

62 Posts (+9), 80 Cmts (+9)

5y ago

Haven't been shadowbanned or banned to my knowledge. No provocative pics or reason to be reported. This is technically my 2nd hinge, i used it before but disliked it so i deleted my account. Decided to give it another try after seeing one of Alexs vids. This is the first week of my new account so yes im having this issue after creating it. It doesnt really get better necessarily after swiping. So my experience is that (and this made me think it was the ELO score) i swipe through 20 unattractive women, then find one attractive one. The attractive one is ALWAYS new to hinge, which made me think my ELO was shit and i would only see the occasional attractive woman because her score hadnt been adjusted yet due to her account being new. It hasnt really gotten better, like i said though my account is only a week old now. Its just weird to me because i always thought ELO had to do with other people seeing my account, not me seeing other peoples but maybe hinge does it differently