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Everyone has an ELO on every dating app.
I'll use 1000 as the default, "you just made your account", ELO.
ELO affects who you are shown to, and in what order you sit on a prospective person's stack of people. AKA, someone with a 250 ELO is going to be at the bottom of a 2000 ELO's stack.
Certain things influence your ELO, both positive and negative.
Positive Influences:
Buying a Boost
Premium membership
Talking with your matches
Having the other person give you their phone number.
Someone right swiping/liking you
Negative Influences:
Swiping yes on people who swipe no on you.
Swiping a large amount of times in a short period of time
Having a large amount of people in your match queue that you haven't spoken to.
Not responding to someone without having had a large conversation beforehand.
Essentially, the apps strive to group people based on their ELO together, and encourages engagement. When engagement happens, people are more likely to subscribe and thats how dating apps get their money. Remember, this is a business model. Users with high engagement with prospective members, attractive users, etc, are more valuable to the app than the people who swipe 10000 times and then "filter based on the matches" by unmatching or not responding to the undesirables.
If you want an extremely dark secret and how I jumped my ELO up, do this:
Set preferences to both sexes, and set travel mode to thailand/philippines. Go to sleep. Wake up in the morning with over 1000 potential matches from faggots who want to suck your dick. Left swipe all of them, go back to your regular browsing. You've now accumulated tons of points in ELO and the system now thinks you are a highly desirable individual.
I could go into the nitty gritty of it, as I'm sure it works the exact same way as it did a decade ago, but this post is getting long enough anyways.
t. full-stack developer for Tinder in 2013-2017