Tinder is a sucky way to meet people anyway, when more people realize it and stop using it, that is when the change will come.
P.S: Kyiv not Kiev
Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
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Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#12Getting banned from Tinder is like getting banned from a bar. Just go somewhere else.
The author makes that point, but follows up with a more important one: this is what you can expect from "the algorithm", whether it's Tinder, Facebook, your email service, or your bank. A few false positives are acceptable collateral damage, and it can be a serious inconvenience or worse. Tinder, he's out 12 bucks, but we've all heard of people with thousands of dollars in Paypal limbo for years.
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#13Tinder is a sucky way to meet people anyway, when more people realize it and stop using it, that is when the change will come. P.S: Kyiv not Kiev
> Kyiv (Ukrainian: Київ)[a] or Kiev[b] is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
From Wikipedia ;)
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#14A typical complaint about getting banned with a thin veneer of "big tech bad" to make it seem worthwhile to the reader.
The "big tech bad" complaints seem valid to me. Big tech companies are willing to accept a certain number of false positives, and that sucks for the people who are caught up in them. Algorithm-influenced decision-making is likely to lead people to change their behaviour to please the algorithm—one obvious example is the oceans of shitty content that we all have to wade through to find useful information because Google's algorithm has led to changes in publisher and writer behaviour.
Both of these are, at best, a cause for concern.
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#15A couple of years ago Tinder only hid the profile pics with CSS in their web client so I installed a custom css to get the functionality you had to pay for free.
Unfortunately, as I recently got single again I discovered that this wasn't possible anymore.
To be more on topic, Tinder is a very american company. I haven't had personal issues with the company but I think their new features of weird matching from some shitty interactive videos is a sign of classic over-engineering. It seems like the app is "done". Maybe they should focus on creating something else than add useless features that no one seems to use ( at least where I am from ).
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#16Getting banned from Tinder is like getting banned from a bar. Just go somewhere else.
The author makes that point, but follows up with a more important one: this is what you can expect from "the algorithm", whether it's Tinder, Facebook, your email service, or your bank. A few false positives are acceptable collateral damage, and it can be a serious inconvenience or worse. Tinder, he's out 12 bucks, but we've all heard of people with thousands of dollars in Paypal limbo for years.
So don't have your livelihood or material comfort depend on greedy and uncaring megacorps?
Evergreen xkcd: https://xkcd.com/743/
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#17You were already shadowbanned permanently, that's why you had 0 likes. There is no difference between that and having no account at all since you cannot interact with any broads. By removing your account, they did you a favour in a sense.
Get a burner SIM card with a new number and create another profile. Easy as that.
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#18Why do people use a service that has a written history of all your embarrassing hookups in the first place?
In the past, intelligence agencies used to devote time and money to get such compromising information. Now people give it out for free.
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#19This is basically the paradigm of any monopolistic or near monopolistic system. You can screw over a small minority without provoking a real response so long as you are appeasing or distracting the majority. Big tech, traditional companies, and even government.
Re: Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
#20FWIW I seldom got any likes on Tinder in USA. I would consider myself in the top 10% of my own country in height and looks but not the same in USA. I realized that US women do not consider me attractive at least based on limited data that a Tinder card shows.