It's not the Elo score, Alex misunderstood the iss

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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Pancake Mouse

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Pancake Mouse

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Pancake Mouse

15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)

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

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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

Pancake Mouse

15 Posts (+31), 492 Cmts (+149)

5y ago

Thanks. To be clear: this is not typical behavior, it only happens for some guys, but no one knows why. It's been happening to me since mid-2018. I've left my account for a year, recreated again, and it happens again. The only time I've ever got it to reset is physically travelling to another city and coming back.

I've experienced it mostly like you say where you see 20 ugly-ass women and then one smokeshow, but lately for me it's just been all uggos and no hot chicks.

What you can do is set your age to a very specific range, like 24-25, and distance to 1 mile. You'll exhaust the uggos faster and you can get your 10 free likes in on the normal girls. Then rinse and repeat every day.