My recent new match statistics have me wondering what indicates when you have hit the bottom of the match barrel.
What do I mean by “bottom of the barrel”?
That you have been matched to nearly all the potential matches in your search parameters. The rest of the potential matches in the eHarmony database don’t match you enough on personality and your individual settings (race, religion, and Likert scale items).
(I trust that as an attentive reader of this blog, that you have “maxed” out those settings beyond ideal to what would be reasonably compatible…)
In this case, short of increasing your search distance radius or compromising on the other parameters, you are not able to widen your search and have more matches in your pool that meet your criteria.
Some symptoms I think that I’ve identified (some of these are related):
- You start to see days that you get no matches delivered (they ran out of fish…or they put up net and release a few more the next day?)
- You click “Find new matches” or have the eHB script running and you still don’t get more matches (I found in the past that if you click it a couple of times in a day, it would relax matching and spit out a “pity” match)
- You normally get around X matches per day and fairly consistently but recently, you have been getting less than X on a regular basis, sometimes dipping all the way to zero
- You start getting a lot of matches with the “relaxed matching” condition indicated
- Matches being delivered outside your age range
Anyone else have any other indicators they have seen? Does anyone else feel like they are at the bottom of the barrel?
I guess we truly do not know if we are at the bottom of the barrel because we don’t know if the “tap” is truly open all the way or not. How much are they regulating the match delivery? That’s for eHarmony to know (and never tell us) but for us to try and reverse engineer.
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