• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    I was on a dating site many years ago. Never got messaged, rarely got responses.

    Met someone in real life, set my profile to “in a relationship”. Got like 5 messages within a week.

    Definitely a bit of vetting going on

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      5 days ago

      You set your status on a dating app to In a Relationship instead of deactivating it. You got likes after that because you’re now passing search filters for a different demographic: nonmonogamous people

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        4 days ago

        It’s weird how you’re getting more upvotes than he did when all you did was summarize what he already said in a tone like it was new information.

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          It recontextualizes things a bit - this is not purely a function of vetting, but places him in a different (smaller) category than he was in previously on the app.

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            4 days ago

            Tomato tamato. You end up in the same place and the journey looks the same.

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              I disagree - it’s the difference between a “lol, women only become interested when you’re not available anymore” trope v. “You were a single dude in a sea of single dudes, now you’re attached and in a smaller pool of nonmonogomous dudes. Pool is smaller, so more bites”.

              Or this was entirely clear in the other post if reading between the lines, and I’m just very tired.