There is no doubt that it is aggravating to keep getting matches from people you haven’t liked or swiped right on.
You are positive that you have never liked or swiped right on the dating profiles of these women.
This has you scratching your head, bewildered.
Every time you receive matches like this, each and every one of them feels like a waste of a match.
For you, it’s hard enough getting matches you like, let alone be in a position where you are constantly receiving matches from people you have never liked.
Why are you getting matches from people you didn’t like or swipe right on?
Sometimes, this happens when you have a low percentage of right swipes.
A dating app’s algorithm watches swipe behavior like a hawk.
When someone is picky, with a low percentage of right swipes, the algorithm takes matters into its own hands by sending matches to the person of people that were never liked, or who were ignored in the past.
What is your swipe percentage?
Do you swipe left much more than you swipe right?
If you have a low percentage of right swipes, receiving matches from people you never liked is probable.
The same thing applies when someone swipes right too much.
A person that swipes right on every dating profile compels a dating app’s algorithm to reduce or stop sending matches to the person for a period of time, so as to keep the person from overworking or abusing the system.
Believe it or not, dating apps don’t have an endless number of potential matches.
To this end, the algorithm wants people to have a healthy balance of right swipes and left swipes.
Those who are at either end of the spectrum coerces the algorithm to step in and create more of a balance.
For the guy who is too picky, with a low percentage of right swipes, the algorithm arbitrarily sends him matches, even though he hasn’t liked any of them in the past.
The hope being that it gets you to give these dating profiles another look, see something you missed in the past, and initiate contact with one or more of them.
For the guy who swipes right too much, with a sky-high percentage of right swipes, the algorithm drastically reduces the number of matches he gets or stops them for a period of time.
The motive is to slow him down and get him to focus on a smaller quantity of matches, rather than playing the numbers game.
After all, a dating app’s job is to match people.
Considering that a dating app has a limited number of matches to go around, it wants its members to have a balanced approach to how they go about liking or swiping.
Dating apps know that there is a perception that there is an unlimited number of matches on their platforms.
Although they want to propagate this notion to an extent, so as to receive more subscribers and make more money as a business, they are fully aware that they don’t have an unlimited number of matches.
Dating apps customarily get a surge in subscribers in the winter, and a plunge in the summer.
For them to stay in business, they watch the swipe or like behavior of their members.
The algorithm has to step in where there are subscribers who are at either end of the spectrum, so as to maintain a healthy balance between left or right swipes, or likes.
Doing this keeps the dating app from going out of business in the slower months.