Crucially, no app is likely to deliberately dumb down its algorithm to produce worse matches, even if it may help prevent racist behaviour.
So in order to survive, apps will continue to feed the human need to discriminate quickly - which is their overall selling point, after all (one-swipe discrimination).
No matter what bumble/tinder/grindr say publicly, I’m pretty sure that if “the goal” is to eliminate or even limit racism, online dating apps are probably the very worst starting place one could choose. All the verbiage is designed to cleverly head the SJWs off at the pass.
Similar to alcohol you mean? Aka : the old saying ( which may apply to both sexes) , “ never been to bed with an ugly person … but woken up with a few “
I’ve been thinking about this (a rare occurrence), and isn’t the best solution to increase the number of filters? If somebody is only into, for example, plus sized people of colour then allowing them to create a filter to exclude any others should create an environment where nobody can be offended.
Reducing the filter options only serves to increase the chance of offence.
Don’t we all basically have mental filters in real life? You don’t look at a women or man and do a mental swiping of yes or no within a few seconds? I guess your opinions may change, I’ve certainly had my opinions change and I’ve been with women who said the same thing for me.
Anyways, you’re probably going to offend some SJW no matter who you’re with. Date a skinny girl you offend fat ones. Date an Asian girl, why you’re not with other races, your own kind, a strong black women etc.
Well, of course. That’s why filters are a positive thing, just as we all had a filter when we were single and in nightclubs. Removal of filters turns it into a blind date - and they rarely go well.
I would assume, even with or without a filter, the algorithms take in to account your past behaviour on the site. Say, on tinder if you 100 times of 100 reject blacks I’m sure it will stop showing blacks.
Not sure it’s tinders job to force diversity on you as the user, they should just show what you want(which also makes business sense to them)
Okay, then I was wrong. But, it would seem strange to me if they don’t try to optimise the results to each user based on their preferences and past behaviour.
Is there, as far as you know, no learning in the algorithms ?
I accept the problem with algorithms, but surely if somebody rejects blacks 100 times then they probably aren’t ever going to enter a relationship with someone who is black.
Agree 100% that it is not the role of any business to force diversity on their customers.
Yes, I agree. But again the down side is possibly missing out on someone who you normally would not consider.
The girl I was with from middle of no where Iowa who told me she’s never even talked to a Asian person beforeme, let along considered being with one probably would have missed out.
Also the filters don’t always do a good job. For example Asian, like I’m really into Korean girls, not so much Taiwanese. Be nice if they were a bit more specific than Asian, white, black etc.
and the “one eyed” filter … well 