College seniors turn classes into Tinder

[HaleyBaron]

A hilarious example of open source Tinder. In summary, a bunch of engineering guys took the data supplied by their college of the various women and what classes they usually take in the STEM departments. They then optimized it into an app for them to where they would go to 100-level classes [beginner classes] to basically game the girls there with things like extra help or offering private tutors. There's other funny tidbits such as the writer of this post being an older female teacher, which has her exaggerate the events of the younger women not liking the attention. Then she contradicts herself that some of the girls are jealous that the prettier girls are getting the attention of these "flirters." It is an all around great study of many things pertaining to gaming but I find it rather entertaining how they reversed engineer essentially what is a Tinder like algorithm by digesting the stats of where women flock to academically. They also knew where the women would be most willing to get with a guy.

Quite frankly, this is not my first time seeing this kind of thing. I knew several guys who were smart enough to tutor some hot girl trying to pass a class or get her homework done, and in exchange received sexual favors. Goes to show that you don't have to be big and chad to get a girl sometimes. Sometimes it takes a silver tongue and self awareness. And most of all, smelling opportunities.

Hats off to these guys.

Need help with students who've turned my class into a dating service

I'm a professor at a local university. I'm passionate about teaching, and am proud to teach 100-level science and mathematics courses to young and aspiring students. Some senior engineering students

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[HaleyBaron]

Glance through the chat, too, for this topic. This post for instance made me laugh:

@gerrit of course they are interested in the pretty women rather than in the unpaid tutoring itself. But, given that the poster has said they have, in fact behaved politely, with no unwanted advances, how on earth will said women be unsafe? If they say no, these guys will take that as an answer. So far, both sides are engaging in a consensual mutually beneficial trade of knowledge->access to pretty girls and good looks->free tutoring.

Because they might consider a situation where women trade good looks for free tutoring undesirable. It doesn't matter that it's "natural". Plenty of stuff is natural and not desirable.

Even aside from the question as to whether it constitutes misconduct, it goes against principles of fairness and meritocrac

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[Doctor Europeo]

Just gave it a glance. Looks like everyone is super happy except for a female teacher and the unnatractive girls, shocker.

 

[Stanley]

I knew several guys who were smart enough to tutor some hot girl trying to pass a class or get her homework done, and in exchange received sexual favors. Goes to show that you don't have to be big and chad to get a girl sometimes. Sometimes it takes a silver tongue and self awareness. And most of all, smelling opportunities.

Right, just be a beta bux who exchanges a service in hopes of return for sexual favors???

The logistics angle on this is pretty impressive i'll admit, but that's about it.