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Comment by gus_massa | Hacker News Reader

Don't you get banned if you automatically swipe right everything?

I'm sure they've changed this multiple times. My understanding is they used to basically put you in a 'loser' bracket where you wouldn't get as good of matches (or just get matches with other people doing the same thing). You wouldn't get banned, but you also wouldn't get the best matches.

EDIT: Note this is on Tinder. Don't know if Hinge is any different...

The Hinge API doesn't explicitly track your "desirability" bucket, but JSwipe (Tinder for Jews) does. I was curious how their API compared, and there's a field which records the percentage of users who liked your profile.

After doing this for a week, it does seem like the quality of my suggestions decreased, but they returned to normal if I limited the number of automated swipes.

TL;DR: automating up to ~20 swipes per day is the sweet spot to maintain match quality.

Seems like you could work around that by swiping right at random.

In which case you probably don't care about quality matches and begs the question why are you dating?

Do you really need the answer?

It starts with f..

fear of loneliness?

...for unlawful carnal knowledge.

Hinge in particular isn’t giving me especially good matches anyway. And if I don’t swipe right, it keeps giving me the same people over and over again. I think it might be “designed to be deleted” by being too annoying to use.

They may use Elo (or something similar) for ranking desirability. Swiping randomly would still lower your desirability score in that case.

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