How Tinder's “feedback loop” forces men and women into extreme strategies

Re:How Tinder's “feedback loop” forces men and women into ex... by niftich on Friday July 15, 2016 @06:49PM (#12104305)

This argument is fallacious because a real person, upon being sent a message, is not obligated to reply, irrespective of a mutual match having been obtained.

By questioning the bot author over the morality of their methodology, your post appears to suggest that people who don't reply to messages would be equally perceived as having wasted the time of message authors, which is a view that your downvoters find troubling. That may not have been your intention, given your disclaimer and edits, but I can see why it could be construed that way.

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Re:How Tinder's “feedback loop” forces men and women into ex... by tedsanders on Saturday July 16, 2016 @06:12PM (#12108075)

Thank you for your reply. To be honest, I still don't see why an obligation to reply makes my argument fallacious. Email spam is universally considered bad, despite the fact that no one is obligated to reply to email spam. Maybe I am misinterpreting what you wrote.

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