There may be some miscommunication. I never used Tinder --because it's a shallow hookup app and I'm not interested in that... and come to think of it it may not even have existed at the time-- I was on OKC which lacked a "swipe-right" concept.

> you're specifically ruling out most candidates.

Yes, because the reality is I just can't stand emoji-laden text communication or single letter representations of words. Many of the women I messaged had said something similar in their profiles. If someone is going to be bothered by that then it was never going to work anyway.