Taps optional
The ability to disable the tap feature from your profile. This way if you do not wish to recieve taps, other users have no way of tapping you.
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Anonymous
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Fake taps - more then annoying!!! and the boiler plate txts are the same for one example: "if I'm on here what you think I'm trying to find" I've received about 30 with this exact same text. and every one of course no location and "recently joined"
IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET GRINDR TO STOP SENDING THIS ****? -
Jordon Shadey Cookies
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Tonight I sent this message to Grindr. They recommended I come here. So this is the message I sent.
More people dislike Taps, I'm beginning to understand why.
No real live person is sending them yet everyone all day long is having their mailbox filled with them. They are obvious A.I. regardless of them not selling stuff, and having these lame chats keeping the person interested on the site (I guess)
Keeping these fake A. I profiles in operation, you are not being a authentic to us, your clients. Since you haven't listened to the majority of your customers to get rid of the Taps, how about creating a setting allowing us to either allow Taps or shut them off in our own profiles so we can't receive them. But remove the AI constant creations. Or revamp the whole Tap option -
Anonymous
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Is there any way to delete this from the ap. I hate taps and want it gone
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anonymous
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Taps are no doubt generated by Grindr to boost log in numbers for advertising purposes. 19/20 taps occur after I've let Grindr go dormant. For this reason, I think grindr is a ****** service.
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Anonymous
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Most of my taps are as for other sites. Should be able to opt out of taps
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Anonymous
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Taps must be system generated and not sent by an individual so it’s a waste of time. I’m inclined to think that taps are used to force people to log in to see what message they received only to find it was a tap from wherever. There’s a major heat wave everywhere and almost every tap I’m receiving has people wearing winter jackets with hoods and scarfs on. There’s no way these are legit people tapping me and they ALWAYS are “offline”. If they’re offline, how are they sending them therefore I believe I’m right when I say they’re system generated possibly by Grindr again so you log in. This shows more users logged in and perfect for advertising high numbers of people logged in when it’s actually a highly inaccurate number to advertise.
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Anonymous
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Taps are pointless and a nuisance. The only users who use them are bots and catfish and those too lazy to actually start a conversation. If they were made optional, it would improve your application.
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Anonymous
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Taps are indeed pointless and apparently easy for bot accounts to generate activity.
The only accounts that tap me are bots and profiles with no posted photo-- neither of which interest me.
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John Doe
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It's a waste of time, get to the point and man up with a hello and face pictures.
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Anonymous
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Taps, almost all of which seem to be fake, scams waste my time and greatly diminish the value of Grindr. Let us turn Taps off if we wish.
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Jason Jones
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There's nothing wrong with taps. When someone nods at you and smiles at a bar or event and waits to see whether the greeting is returned before proceeding, do you berate or ignore that person for having the gall not to march right up to your face and launch into the beginning of a conversation? It's funny that on Scruff I never see anyone criticize real people for woofing.
HOWEVER the problem on Grindr is that, as others have noted, the overwhelming majority of taps are fake anyway. Why Grindr can't control the spam/scams (an endless stream of profiles featuring the phrase "for the rest of my life") when Scruff has these well under control is mystifying. Giving their failure to do so, they should let us block taps. And I see this idea was floated a year ago, but they haven't implemented it yet.
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Demetrius F Williams
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Yes it be alot of bots and fake profiles grinder need to really fix this problem this is a huge issue
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Jeff
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Agree with Scott entirely, that is the main problem : bots/fake accounts
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Scott
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The main problems with taps on Grindr (which I rarely see anyone mention) is that 99% of them are from bots/fake accounts! This is what most people don't understand/get or they are failing to realize this. I get "Woofs" all the time on Scruff or "Growls" all the time on Growlr but they are not coming from fake accounts or bots, they are actually REAL people! That is why this feature on Grindr needs to either GO, or give everyone the option to disable it via their account settings if they wish to do so!
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Anonymous
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Very freaking annoying. Have an option to disable or just get rid of the feature completely.
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Italian
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Taps are dumb. You’re promoting not having social skills.
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Anonymous
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The service is getting to be unusable because of all the spam and most of that is thru the tap "feature". It needs to be removed or at least give people the ability to disable it. Though it looks like this was first started a year ago and nothing has been done yet, so I don't expect it to happen anytime soon. Guess I'll be switching to Scruff, where they don't have stupid features that help spammers.
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Anonymous
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Please disable tap.
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Anonymous
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Taps should be optional and I agree with the op. Taps are being used as harrassment i.e. Tops tapping Tops, Being tapped by somone who flaked on you. Tapping a profile who clearly states no tapping. All these thing present a hostile environment which Grindr needs to adress, not alone the rampant meth and underage users.
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JJ
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100% Agree. I really want Grindr as it used to be: only messages, taps were made for those without nuts to even say just hi