The quiet index
Matched by pull, never ranked by it.
Under the deck runs a quiet index: of every hundred people who open your card,
how many swipe and then actually message. We never print it,
never put it on a board, and never let it throttle your reach — your visibility
answers to the consensus you can see, not a number you can't.
The index does one job: it pairs you with people whose pull matches yours, so
likes turn into conversations that mean something instead of
trophies that never reply.
Likes carry weight, and the weight is earned. Fire on everyone, every day, and
your likes quietly thin — full value the first day, lighter the next, lighter
again, until the people you like never feel them at all. Time
spent actually reading a profile counts for more than the flick that follows it,
so the decay hunts the habit, not the mood: a fast fifteen minutes doesn't dent
the person who spends the rest of the hour genuinely looking. It's written into
the terms, so nobody gets to be surprised.