>A: Several reasons could explain that: >[...] >They are not in your elo anymore [...]
Kinda creepy that you can like a person, that person likes you too, and yet the algorithm might override your choice and decide to not create the match.
I believe part of the motivation for this is to keep the experience good for straight women. If straight women leave the app, it's going to die.
Because straight women often have more potential matches than they can go through, Tinder is more aggressive about prioritizing those.
If they present a woman with a man whose score was high, he might be physically attractive enough for her, but he might have "behaved badly" in recent conversations and therefore be low-value match for her in the end. If she keeps getting matches with men who behave badly when chatting starts, she'll probably quit the app.
Among my straight female friends who use Tinder, harassment fatigue is the #1 reason they quit or take breaks.
A small correction to your README though:
> These pictures are in very low definition though.
There is a way to access the original (highest) resolution of the submitted images through the API. My code picks the lowest-res one though since I'm doing image comparisons.
However, looking at what the output is now, it looks like Tinder has tightened up their API since I wrote this. It used to be the case that each teaser profile that likes you would have all of its images accessible through the API. This is no longer the case, and only 1 image is accessible for each profile that likes you.
Is there an actual person in the photos? Is it obvious which person it is? Are there any that aren't close up selfies? Are there any close up selfies? Are they smiling? Any red flags like pictures of Machu Picchu or marathons or massive glasses of alcohol or teardrop tattoos under the left eye?
We can visually identify thousands of species of birds at this point, surely computer science can tackle this important problem next, no?
Turns out people don't give a shit about compatibility, they just want to date hot people. Figures.
