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Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com)
"The Tinder dating app will soon be asking men to submit photos in order to verify their height," writes long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike, sharing a post made Friday (March 29th) on the official Tinder blog.
Let's be real, when it comes to online dating -- honesty is the best policy. Yes, your height matters as long as every other shallow aspect of physical attraction does. Please try not to take it to heart...
Height-lying ends here. To require everyone under 6' to own up to their real height, we're bringing truthfulness back into the world of online dating. Introducing Tinder's Height Verification Badge (HVB), because yes -- sometimes it matters. It's the tool we've had in our back-pockets for years, but we were hoping your honesty would allow us to keep it there... Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We'll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you'll receive your badge directly on your profile.
Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6' and beyond. So, we're expecting to see a huge decline in the 80% of males on Tinder who are claiming that they are well over 6 feet.
The post concludes that "Tinder's HVB is coming soon to a phone near you," and Tinder's official Twitter account described the feature as "the thing you never asked for, but definitely always wanted," with a short video showing their app displaying errors for incorrect heights. (The second error message reads "Seriously... Please enter your correct height.") The video has been viewed 2.78 million times. Its tagline? "Let's bring honesty back to dating."
"It's unknown at this point if this is a real feature that the company is adding to its dating app," reported one local news site, "or an early April Fool's joke."
Height-lying ends here. To require everyone under 6' to own up to their real height, we're bringing truthfulness back into the world of online dating. Introducing Tinder's Height Verification Badge (HVB), because yes -- sometimes it matters. It's the tool we've had in our back-pockets for years, but we were hoping your honesty would allow us to keep it there... Simply input your true, accurate height with a screenshot of you standing next to any commercial building. We'll do some state-of-the-art verifying and you'll receive your badge directly on your profile.
Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6' and beyond. So, we're expecting to see a huge decline in the 80% of males on Tinder who are claiming that they are well over 6 feet.
The post concludes that "Tinder's HVB is coming soon to a phone near you," and Tinder's official Twitter account described the feature as "the thing you never asked for, but definitely always wanted," with a short video showing their app displaying errors for incorrect heights. (The second error message reads "Seriously... Please enter your correct height.") The video has been viewed 2.78 million times. Its tagline? "Let's bring honesty back to dating."
"It's unknown at this point if this is a real feature that the company is adding to its dating app," reported one local news site, "or an early April Fool's joke."
Let's face it, thousands of women on that platform are surely lying about their weight. They use "Myspace angles" to hide in pictures in order to deceive potential matches.
So, let's be fair and make sure women tell the truth.
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Definitely -- they need a weight verification tool for women as well. Maybe some combination of advanced image analysis utilizing gravitational lensing and/or bathroom scale selfies.
Calling out the double standard is hilarious as well.
height? women can be picky/shitty about this one -- men can't do anything but chant "grow, grow, grow" and hope c'thulu hears their prayer
weight? men asking women their weight is a bit taboo for some reason, despite it being 100% under their control.
Obtaining a date is easy if you lie - look forward to being downrated, commented on, blocked, etc. though. That's why there are trends for "date reviews" nowadays, to ward off others from the creeps and work on a reputation-based system (whether that's "he was a really good shag" or "he's a wonderful guy, we're really good friends, but we just aren't quite right for each other).
But if 80% of men are saying they're over 6 foot, there's no way that those 80% of men aren't getting repeat dates, hence the only people actually fooling themselves are the women who think they have to have someone over 6 foot and would notice, and men know that and so know they can lie about it and get away with it.
Maybe if we were all a bit less shallow, these things wouldn't matter. Maybe if they opened up their "essential" criteria a bit, it would help everyone. But women get swamped with guys so they can literally afford to filter to what they think is the "perfect" guy. Guys can't be as picky, fact of life. They might all clamber for the young leggy blonde but fact is that they have to await acceptance from the women on such platforms, not the other way around, hence they will lie to pass that filter.
It's one of the reasons that whenever I'm dating online I ignore absolutely any statistic and go entirely by the chat. I don't care if they're 4 feet or 20, what their cup size is, what they claim their age to be, and so on. It literally means nothing because virtually everyone lies about those things and the people who think it's important enough to actually put on their profile are the type of people I don't want to date (sometimes you can't avoid putting it on, but you can make it clear whether you give a shit about matching on that or not).
Even for a one-nighter, if you're that vain that you'll only sleep with people over 6-foot, then I don't really want to know you, whether I'm 6-foot or not.
Now there are some attributes that are worth knowing for elimination purposes - smokers, for instance. But I have to say that all the vital statistics in the world are useless in gauging how much you enjoy someone's company.
Honestly, there's a lot to be said for "online blind dates". Just chatting to someone who you know absolutely nothing about.
But lying about a vital statistic is dumb, and this kind of "verification" will just be photoshopped into oblivion.
Tinder has a reputation for being full of people exaggerating their physical attributes. They pretend to be taller, to have bigger boobs, to have more money and a better car.
Uh, Tinder has a reputation?
Humans have a reputation for exaggerating their physical attributes. A bullshit artist doesn't need Tinder, and that tool is doing nothing more than representing human behavior. Destroy it today, and the same damn thing will pop up in its place tomorrow. With all the same problems.
There is no definition for curvy.
Go to http://okcupid.com/ and set your preferences to "curvy" girls.
American curvy girls are fat
European curvy girls have "big tits/big ass" and are either normal weight or just slightly above average .. as in "curvy".
How a fat girl can think she has curves is beyond me :P
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Definitely -- they need a weight verification tool for women as well. Maybe some combination of advanced image analysis utilizing gravitational lensing and/or bathroom scale selfies.
Calling out the double standard is hilarious as well. height? women can be picky/shitty about this one -- men can't do anything but chant "grow, grow, grow" and hope c'thulu hears their prayer weight? men asking women their weight is a bit taboo for some reason, despite it being 100% under their control.
It is rather an odd thing, because men are always called out for all of us being shallow. But looking at the bucket lists that so many women have, it becomes obvious real quickly that they will have to lower their standards, or get pets to keep them company.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Of course, there is always the possibility that your wife of 7 years turns into a cheating whore and you have to start all over, but what do I know.