YAHOO POLL: Would you date someone shorter than you?
Rascoff may be working to change that reputation but the app is currently testing a pretty superficial feature: height.
Users started noticing a height 'filter' in the app last month. Then the news really blew up on the internet when a Redditor posted about it on 29 May. Short men were not happy. "It's over for short men. What are they going to do now?' one person wrote on social media platform X.
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However, the feature is for premium users at the moment and is being positioned as a paid suggestion for the algorithm rather than a tool to completely block users of a certain height.
'We're always listening to what matters most to our Tinder users – and testing the paid height preference is a great example of how we're building with urgency, clarity, and focus,' a Tinder spokesperson said.
Height discrimination is real on dating apps but it actually works both ways.
A study found that short men routinely add a few inches to their height in their profiles to make themselves more appealing while a 5 ft 4 woman gets 60 more contacts each year than a 6ft woman.
So we want to know: Would you date someone shorter than you?
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