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Sure you do. Why don't you export your Hinge data and just show us your actual matches? Somehow I doubt you're doing better on Hinge than signed models-- but that's just kind of a hunch you know? If you're really a 6 or 7 to women, you should have upwards of a few thousand matches after a month or so. That's even if you only swipe a couple days a month, it's just not that hard to rack them up if you're truly good looking. I expect I'll be waiting for a very, very, very long time though. People just loove spinning absurdly fantastical tales to anyone with a modicum of experience in this to try and inflate their credentials.
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You keep making this very interesting assumption that putting work into a dating profile meaningfully changes your results. If you're not good looking it won't. Full stop.
I don't know if you know how Hinge actually works , but you can only send out about five likes a day, so even if I were swiping every day and getting 100% matches I wouldn't be able to get anywhere near a couple thousand. But anyway, I'm not trying to claim I'm exceptionally good looking or exceptionally successful, just that I'm getting enough good matches that I'm getting satisfactory results. Honestly, having more than three active matches is a waste of time, since it's hard to keep up with that many conversations in any meaningful way, let alone schedule dates if you're a reasonably busy person with an actual life. So yeah, I'm sure there's some super users out there with thousands of matches , but it's a pointless comparison. These guys don't "have their pick" because there's no possible way to even make that selection. So fine, I'm probably in the bottom ten percent of users and doing terribly, but if this is what doing terribly is like, then nobody has any reason to complain.
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