Tinder Announces New 'Height Verification' Feature. But They May Be Lying (gotinder.com) 323
"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."
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Honesty is the best policy? How about you clean up the ladies bios and pictures? Oh - the picture looks like you weigh 100 pounds less? Must be the camera angle.
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It's just a shitty marketing campaign. 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.
Obviously what they claim is impossible, there is no way to determine a person's height from one or two photos that only show the guy from the waist up.
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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.
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When are they going to deploy a Weight Verification Badge for the "ladies"?
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>"Obviously what they claim is impossible, there is no way to determine a person's height from one or two photos that only show the guy from the waist up."
+1
There is a relation between "torso length" and "limb length" but it is far from reliable. I know people who appear quite tall sitting, but have short legs/arms, and the reverse- short torso, long legs/arms. You have to get a full photo of someone first.... and even then, you can only estimate height.
Anyway, it is pretty sad that something so shallo
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Anyway, it is pretty sad that something so shallow as height will drive people's dating decisions.
Women in general prefer taller men, and the taller the better. https://www.lovepanky.com/men/... [lovepanky.com] And for an actual study, Rice University: http://news.rice.edu/2014/02/1... [rice.edu]
I was watching a woman reporter interviewing James Comey, who is pretty tall. She was a pretty liberal person, and would normally be pretty antagonistic toward some damage he might have done. But she was entranced - even giddy around him.
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It's just a shitty marketing campaign..
We're into understatement today! 8^)
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Looks like the men have been violating the number one qualification for women on Tinder.
Honesty is the best policy? How about you clean up the ladies bios and pictures? Oh - the picture looks like you weigh 100 pounds less? Must be the camera angle.
You are presupposing that the women actually exist in the first place. During the data breach a few years ago Ashley Madison was exposed as having a ton of fake profiles (one site even suggested 90-95% of female profiles were fake) I presume that any site that requires men to pay real money to connect women most like has a huge number of fake profiles on their books.
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I met the love of my life on Tinder. Anecdotal, of course, but hey... it worked for one guy at least :)
Strictly ontopic, I did a quick conversion and I am 5.97113 feet tall. Bummer :P
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How much is 5.97113 feet in real measures ... and how is your size relevant?
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Eh. Women did exist I tinder, plenty of them. Mate of mine is a regular there and seems to have no problems. He's not tall either, maybe 5'7".
I don't really see how fake profiles would work on it. So presumably you swipe right(?) And the fake profile auto swipes right. Then you message and... Nothing? Then what?
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You are presupposing that the women actually exist in the first place
Plenty of real women there. Take my word for it.
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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.
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I understand your grief.
Woman are not to heavy for their height.
They are just to small for their weight.
Obviously you could argue the same way for men :P
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The problem with such standards is manyfold.
People who don't meet that standard are striving for it (but most likely never reach it) ... not because of the money, but I found the idea horrifying ... and she insisted (and her lower parts looked extremely nice and sexy anyway).
Some even go for operations, my GF wants her "nose fixed". But I like her nose.
My ex GF wanted her labiums fixed. And wanted me to pay for it. I left her
I find people who lived a while and arranged with their body and their live, aka be
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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.
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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.
Women both live longer
Men die before their wives beacuse they want to.
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It's true. A LOT of women put a height requirement in their dating profile. I doubt most guys would dare put a weight requirement in.
On the other hand, I've been told by a lot of female friends that a surprising number of guys have strong height preferences for women too.
Well, there are preferences, and there are requirements. I like tall women, long legs and long hair.
But I've dated and been involved with shorties in my younger years.
For the requirements, I was watching a YT video, one of the "Where have all the good men gone" ones. I think it was a Network show like Dateline (calendar type dates).
They had a group of single woman and an interviewer sitting around what looked like a nice bar or restaurant. These were very physically attractive women. They were all in
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Every study on the subject of female attractiveness has demonstrated that the vast and overwhelming majority of men care mostly about the proportions of a woman's figure. You guys are the first two statistical anomalies I have ever come accords that obsess over a woman's weight.
Oh really? I don't care if a woman is "curvy", but Weight is often interchangeable with obese. And no sir, I do not find fat chicks attractive at all. Show me where the overwhelming majority of men prefer fat chicks.
Is there like a certain fixed amount of female body mass where you experience abrupt erectile failure or is it more of a gradient where you slowly move into the realm of impotence as a function of the mass of the female?
Is there like a certain levelof disruption of your narrative that makes you
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And aren't attracted by "thinspiration"
Yet you *chose* to go off on this stupid strawman rant!
Exactly. whoever it was didn't appear to have a problem with women demanding men's heights, and even stooped so low as to make weird veiled accusations of impotence.
Those badonkadonk ballon tit overstyled plastic women can't even kiss my ass. Totally unattractive. Styling is only another word for LYING!
But I'm German. And I can see tits just by going to the next park/lake/beach in the summer. So maybe it's a Murican thing.
I know a lot of people, and almost none of them like the bolted on Grapefruit half look - fake boobs women. Only a couple I know like that. And you can spot silicone a mile away. Just some insecure women who thiink they know what men like. And lest we grow too complacent, some are enlarging their buttocks now. Time will not be kind to these
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How about you clean up the ladies bios and pictures? Oh - the picture looks like you weigh 100 pounds less? Must be the camera angle.
Their goal is to get more women on their website. Not going to happen.
Beyond just being on the Internet, Tinder is a hookup site. There have always been more men available for hookups than women, for rational biological reasons. Hooking up is higher-risk for women, and if women want a family, they need to start earlier. There's less time for curiosity. Unfair, but true.
Society also pushes it for men, who are higher status if they hookup, and women are lower status if they hookup. Of course, the risk of
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Beyond just being on the Internet, Tinder is a hookup site. There have always been more men available for hookups than women, for rational biological reasons. Hooking up is higher-risk for women, and if women want a family, they need to start earlier. There's less time for curiosity. Unfair, but true.
Oh gawd - the let's wait until the fertility window is closing aspect of so many. There are gioong to be a lot of sad ladies about. Tinder? It's a great way to get free food and drinks though.
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In addition, the sepia tint could be indicative of an older, less accurate photo...
Or even her mother......
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Tinder is pretty garbage for men. You're far better off using traditional dating methods than dealing with that hyper competitive world of ultra ridiculous expectations in men where women receive hundreds of responses a day. No thanks, unless you're looking exclusively for hookups, then it's somewhat ok.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/tin... [mrctv.org]
Seriously, mere rejection isn't enough, apparently there is a need to actively abuse men. One of the problems with Tinder is that if a woman is looking for an intelligent male, mere use of Tinder disqualifies him.
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Be fair now, Tinder is garbage for everyone.
Women may get responses, but the vast majority of them aren't exactly winners. People get really weird and fetishy all the time, and you start wondering how much of a stalker they are. There's also the endless wave of dick pics.
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There is no definition for curvy.
Go to http://okcupid.com/ [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
Re: Hilarious (Score:5, Informative)
Well, I guess being in the shape of a large sphere does qualify in some way as having a curve somewhere.....maybe just one BIG continuous curve?
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I would have thought a triangular prism would be the least curvy way to enclose a volume.
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Curves are easy to quantify, just count the number of zero second derivatives, or maybe give the spherical harmonic spectrum.
Rolls are curves after all.
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A good solution would be user reviews.
After the date, you can leave a review, rating the other person on a scale of 1 to 5 stars for different criteria, as well as a text description.
This can prevent others from being mislead, and encourage more truth in advertising.
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Any more questions?
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Fat girls try harder?
Actually, they don't. They, for the most part, have the same queen-like opinion of themselves that more attractive women have, and it makes them perpetually angry that reality won't conform to their personal set of standards.
The way it works is that they can have preferences for tall, handsome guys, but guys are wrong if they prefer slim women. "It's so exclusionary!!" I saw this completely bonkers double standard all the time back when I was dating. Echh. Thank fucking god I'm done with that shit.
With that
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being married isn't always perfectly smooth sailing (ha ha) but it beats the shit out of dating.
Disclaimer: YMMV. ;)
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Well, like you said fetishized by SOME men, but ugh...I think she looks like a freak with that thing, and I dare say most normal men don't like it ultra-wide.
But everyone has their preferences.
I think there is a problem with 'normalizing' being overweight for women and men. It is not healthy and we already have a problem with obesity.
If you are overweight, it should be pointed out, so that a person can get help and try to get to a more healthy weight.
We've got enough of a load on the healthcare system as it is, and obesity and the associated spread of type II diabetes is going to bankrupt us in the future if we don't try to stop the health problem.
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I'll wager that not only won't they check women's weight, they will eventually demand proof of the men's penis length.
Well, they could kill two birds with one stone here - I mean, the guys are going to be standing next to buildings and getting photographed already so...
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Do you really want to see it all shriveled up? You'll be measuring the size that won't matter with your suggestion. April 1st it will definitely be too cold to have an erection in those cir...cum...stances...
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Do you really want to see it all shriveled up?
Actually, I don't want to see it at all.
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I'll wager that not only won't they check women's weight, they will eventually demand proof of the men's penis length.
Well, they could kill two birds with one stone here - I mean, the guys are going to be standing next to buildings and getting photographed already so...
This is going to take two rulers now.
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Makes no difference except at each extreme end of the spectrum. Don't be so insecure. Size or girth does not create instant orgasms.
Can't imagine why you would think I'm insecure. I don't care at all whet some woman on Tinder thinks of my package. I only point out different expectations and rules.
If they demand men's height, they might demand anything.
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It also needs weight verification. (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Re: It also needs weight verification. (Score:3, Insightful)
When it comes to women and rights/expectations, the world of double standards is the norm, not the exception.
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Of course with the difference that people can do little about their "size".
I have an inbox full of ads that claim otherwise...
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I agree with him - if you want a simple transaction where you know upfront what you'll be paying and what you'll get for it, you should look at escorts, compensated dating, or prostitutes.
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And what are you doing about this way your government is curtailing your freedom? I can go to a legal brothel across the road if I want to.
Ah joy, the phony April fools stories (Score:5, Insightful)
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Like life, then?
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Tinder is offensive
You're not forced to download it and use it. Let other people do what they want instead of getting "offended" over stuff that has nothing to do with you.
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Let other people do what they want instead of getting "offended" over stuff that has nothing to do with you.
I can do both: let people do what they want, and get offended. That is my right, as is theirs.
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I despise the height thing in particular myself, and I AM over 6'.
Understandably. Height is a status symbol that is visible immediately when the girl walks down the street with her guy. For a lot of people, Status is more important than being happy, or anything else. As Tom Wolfe puts it (in I Am Charlotte Simmons), the most important thing is "being a person recognized as special, regardless of the reason."
If you can get over your need for status, there is a lot of power that comes with it. First, you gain the ability to attain what makes you happy (instead of chasing
Wheelchair-using Tinder users (Score:2)
Particularly when narrowing a search by height might violate Americans with Disabilities Act and foreign counterparts. Does the height of a wheelchair's seat count toward the height of a wheelchair-using Tinder user? Would the system correctly recognize the height of someone like photographer Kevin Michael Connolly or aerialist Jen Bricker?
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Americans with Disabilities Act
I don't think the Act contemplates getting laid with an internet app.
I hate 1st April (Score:3, Insightful)
Stuff like this is silly ... (Score:2)
People faking stuff about their body might get an more easy date.
But get kicked instantly in the ass when they actually have a date.
So what is the point?
The funny thing is, you fake something to impress someone you don't know who is actually interested into the opposite ... fail.
What you think how many people I know who like tiny woman, but they add 10cm on their profile? Or woman who try to impress with breasts, but the guy actually likes small sizes?
Same for men, just don't find a good example, probably c
Re:Stuff like this is silly ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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What the world needs in online blind dates that take place in total and complete darkness.
Beware that the 'girl' doesn't need a shave.
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Running around faking something you are not, trying to impress someone you like, but might be interested in just the opposite you fake, plain stupid.
You assume that everyone using the service is looking for a long term relationship. I have a feeling most are just looking for a quick fuck. I that case, why would you look for anything other than some shallow, vapid person that is also looking for the same thing?
Re:Stuff like this is silly ... (Score:5, Interesting)
Having jumped into this world recently, I have some observations...
At least in my age-bracket (early 50-something, but trolling for 40-somethings and even 30-somethings that are interesting), nearly all the women on Tinder want to replace their lost soul-mate and they want to do it yesterday. This seems to be true of most of the dating sites I'm on. And if you are not existentially clamoring for the same thing then you must be just a serial-dater or a hookup guy and are a waste of their time.
The notion that a soulmate is a difficult thing to find, and that sometimes it needs to develop organically, is just lost on them. Seems they'd rather sit at home alone rather than entertain the notion that perhaps getting out and about with a less-than-ideal match might be a better use of their time. They might even learn something about how other people work/think/behave, and maybe learn something about themselves in the process. And if that less-than-ideal match is physically attractive, not the end of the world to let off some steam in the pent-up-hormones dept.
Personally I try to go in with an open mind, and if the date goes nowhere, I got an evening out at the very least. Or it might cultivate a beneficial platonic relationship, which has happened more than once for me. If it's a good fit and grows into something more, then I'm open to that too. You know, just like how real dating works. But the "ya-gotta-be-looking-to-get-married-and-yesterday" filter is a huge obstacle for everyone involved.
I *am* puzzled at the blatant dishonesty on physical attributes. Lying on your height? Really? And I've gotten really good at reading between the pixels, as it were, on the women's photos. Or at the very least, figure they will be one or two notches less attractive in person. But I'm open to the notion that after a couple of hours, if a person's personality is attractive, the physical appearance truly does go down in importance. Which is one of the biggest limitations in online dating, which is that it's a rare photograph that also conveys a person's soul (to be a bit melodramatic).
My pictures are representative of how I look. And of course I pick ones that make me look good, but not deceptively so. The only fudging I do is with age. And I'm unapologetic about it. There are a statistically unlikely distributions of 39 and 49y/o women on the site. Sorry, no way. The only explanation is they are trying to game the age filter. In my case, losing 25lbs and hitting the gym regularly means an age filter would unfairly bias me out of searches. *Every* time I've come clean on my age after meeting someone, I always get surprised reactions that I really do look mid-40's (I usually advertise upper 40's), and a few times people have commented that my upbeat demeanor is more of a upper-30/lower-40's person.
So I won't be happy if they somehow implement age verification, as I truly believe that people put more importance on it than they should. But I imagine that the women will be even less happy, based on the number of 9's I see in the ages.
Length verification (Score:2)
To keep it safe and friendly, male patrols will be required to show a ruler placed on their hand as the length of the hand is also an indication of the length of the penis.
Similarly the arm span from from finger tip to finger tip is another DaVinca human proportion used in the art world.
How many of you are currently measuring your hand?
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Standing next to any commercial building. Perhaps a bowling alley.
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Grip...rated by the size and weight of the ball she can 'hold' through a jumping jack.
Most will claim pachinko, but deliver pingpong.
Just use your mug shot (Score:3)
Many mug shots are taken with a height scale behind the perp.
The Equality of Misrepresentation (Score:5, Funny)
Since it appears that there's a significant problem with men misrepresenting themselves in their online profiles, I don't mind men being targeted for some brutal honestly.
Of course, this also means I FULLY expect a new Tinder policy that requires every woman's profile to include a full body shot (to include whatever algorithmic hashes are necessary to disprove image manipulation), as well as a makeup-free selfie. There's ZERO reason we should allow the women to get away with misrepresentation.
I think I've also pointed out the obvious differences between the genders. Careful what you wish for ladies. We men might end up demanding you provide the same, in the name of equity.
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To be fair....MOST women need a little makeup.
I wanna see how well they do it....when you take them out in public, you do want them to look their best you know.
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You (and everybody else) seem to have missed the biggest and most expensive lie.
"I don't want children."
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That's false equivalence actually. Would you require men to not style their hair, color their hair, cut their beard, don't wear good clothes etc for the picture? Then why would want a make-up free selfie for women?
Style and clothing can improve a person's appearance, but the transformative power of make-up has been proven time and time again, both in real life and on the big screen.
And no, I don't "want" or need any of this (I don't even use Tinder), but if one gender is going to sit back and demand that men be accurate, then I say enforce brutal honesty and equality for ALL on dating apps. Make-up free selfies, weight verification, medical history validation. Yes, I'm certain that's the cure to the divorce rate; l
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Style and clothing is equally transformative.
As is shaving.
I mean you wouldn't go on in stained sweatpants and a 6 month hobo beard.
If you want really brutal honesty, you'd advocate for that too.
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Style and clothing is equally transformative.
As is shaving.
I mean you wouldn't go on in stained sweatpants and a 6 month hobo beard.
If you want really brutal honesty, you'd advocate for that too.
I don't advocate for stained sweatpants and hobo beards because I wouldn't sport that look regardless of my relationship status. Hell, I wouldn't sport that look to change the oil in my car. If you enjoy sitting around wearing stained sweatpants sporting hobo beards, fine. Just be honest about it. Find that special soulmate that you can match stains with.
I can hardly believe we're even having this conversation anyway. Not sure why men would be dumb enough to lie about their height on a dating app. It'
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I'm sure a push-up bra folded up and placed under a wig could add an inch...
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Also, a notarized IQ test
Women with no makeup (Score:3, Funny)
Looking forward to women being required to upload unretouched photos of makeup-free faces, also Weight Verification Badges.
Make-up and boob size (Score:2)
If this is actually a april fool's joke, I look forward to see they do it next year with weight verification for women, including the same corny video showing them puting their weight as 95lb, then 110lb, then 140lb and getting a verification icon. No chance of rabid comments at all, no sir.
Weird (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm born in 1952 and when I was drafted (1970) the average height of my age was 6'2"...
(I'm from the Netherlands)
Still weird because in my youth I was always told about these tall US soldiers that in 1945 came to liberate us.
What happened between say 1935 and 2019?
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Not weird at all.
The Netherlands has the highest average height of any country in the world, and is much more genetically homogeneous (77% Dutch/Frisian) than the U.S. It also has had good nutrition with loads of dairy in the diet since the end of WWII. And those tall G.I.s were by and large young, Euro-American farm boys raised on diets of cheap beef, milk, and corn, basically the tallest subset of the American population, whereas the Netherlands went through 7 years of war and poverty, during which its ty
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What happened between say 1935 and 2019?
They shrinked.
Shrunk?
Shronked?
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I'm born in 1952 and when I was drafted (1970) the average height of my age was 6'2"...
(I'm from the Netherlands)
Still weird because in my youth I was always told about these tall US soldiers that in 1945 came to liberate us.
You are quite off, I suspect you did a conversion error: 6'2" is 1.87 cm, when the average height of Dutch men in 1970 was about 1.76 (5'9" - 5'10"). The average height of the Dutch men has been increasing steadily and fast until around 2000, slower now but it is at its highest ever at 1.84m (just over 6ft). They started as the shortest men in the late 19th century (1.60 average), but I cannot find a 1940s figure to quote.
US men on the other hand seems to have pretty much plateaued in height around 1970 and they were considered among the tallest in the world the further back you go in time. In 1943 specifically the average height of US recruits was 174cm. As I can't tell how that graph goes from the late 19th century's 160cm to the 1970 176cm, I am not sure if the US soldiers would be noticeably taller during WW 2. But I suspect the difference might have been more "psychological" rather than physical.
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The stagnant height of US men was likely caused by the lack of universal health care.
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Well, and poor nutrition, somewhat the same sort of thing as poor health care.
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Wikipedia says 5' 11" [wikipedia.org] self-reported. Self-reported.
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Mexicans.
The average height of a Mexican woman is under 5'1".
Early April Fool's joke? (Score:2)
What with it being March 31st I'd say it's just an April Fool's joke that jumped the gun, but from what little I know of Tinder I wouldn't be surprised if it was true.
If they do this with men, will they also make women post a pic so their weight could be determined? Or would that be atrociously shallow and sexist of me?
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Height? Try weight (Score:2)
Woo-hoo! Passed that. (Score:2)
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Well yes, but ... (Score:4, Funny)