Too many spammers.
Please put reported accounts in probation when reported as spammers.

Pourquoi ne bloquez-vous pas les adresses IP et des domaines des robots, qui spam ment?

Please confirm actions taken when accounts are reported as catfish, spam bots. This includes escort and masseuse accounts. 90% of them are trying bait people into using unsecure 3rd party verification and booking sites. These sites steal your CC info and/or identity. Do more to protect users from scams.

you really should think about adding a distance filter max and least both. It's hard enough to find someone when you get viewing the profiles find an interesting one then realize they're over 100 or over 1000 miles away. With so many scammers using the site I'd rather find someone and meet in person locally so I know they're not just seeing what they can get out of me. Also you need to try and do something to eliminate or at least reduce scammers from using it

The huge number of spam messages on a daily basis is completely unacceptable.

Despite numerous reports, Grindr hasn't done anything about this.

It would be as simple as parsing all messages through a URL filter.

Why do paying users of Grindr have to endure this?

Plus, unlike other apps, Grindr doesn't reward users for reporting spam.

Because the idiots that run Grindr don't care about their users.

Stop specifically the Onlyguys.org spam

Why you do not block automatically some spam messages there are always the same , containing always same website addresses like fuckguy.net, ....
I mean what's the point for us to signal spam messages including our conversation if you fo not take any measure to stop it .
So easy to track profiles that generates messages containing an url or something that looks like

Approve my #1234567 selfie to verify I’m real!

So many bots seem to be created every single day, personally I get at least 3-5 messages daily (depending on when I'm online) with no content other than a link to a site (won't mention the exact names to avoid giving publicity but they are often "_guys.org" or "_avenue.com").

These accounts are probably making Grindr lose out on a lot of ad revenue, since the sites they promote are getting free advertising targeted to Grindr users, so they don't need to pay for advertising from Grindr the way you're supposed to.

Also very often get taps from accounts called "READ BIO NOW" and the bio is some kind of obvious scam claiming to be a sugar daddy offering hundreds of dollars/pounds for nothing.

This kind of behaviour would be so easy to automatically filter out, they often don't even change anything between the accounts. Once one spam message is reported, there could be an automatic system in place to ban accounts who send out this message to many people. This would be quite simple to implement since it is extremely obvious they are not real accounts.

A basic level of automoderation like this would go a long way towards protecting users both from the annoyance of these messages and the potential dangers for unsuspecting users who click these links.

When reporting spam accounts, the reported account should automatically also be blocked by the person reporting it

How about every time we report a spam ad and it gets verified we get a point, or credit to membership? Clearly you are saving on salaries as we are identifying these accounts for you?
I don't understand how they can spam a message to my account without having viewed my profile?
Secondly it would encourage people to report the spam rather than just ignore or delete if they're being recognized. Otherwise it seems like a pointless excersise.
Thirdly you will discover the true extent of spam on your app.

Grindr has long ignored numerous people's pleas to block obvious spam, like first contacts consisting of nothing but a URL. Given that this is easy to do, I'm starting to wonder whether Grindr itself creates those accounts, paid by the owners of those websites, so they're not only advertising to us paid users, but pretending they aren't, letting us THINK it's external spam. This probably isn't true, but then Grindr should consider that their inaction makes it seem possible.

I'm unsure if this is just Grindr premium, but you have a filter to see profiles from users in a certain age range, distance and settings for blank or photo having profiles. I wish my inbox had the same filter options. I want to not accept spam messages from people 900 miles away or ones saying "fuckavenue.com" from blank profiles 4 times a day. The amount of unwanted messages I receive is gross. Thank you!

Could you please make it easier to do a reverse image search - I get a sixth sense these days with some pics - you just know someone's using a stock photo of a model they've grabbed online - it's too perfect or something.

I just got a message trying to get me to register on another site for a GB party "Only $5" - second red flat being $ when I'm in the UK. 3rd red flag - a suspiciously good gym pic.

So I've saved the pic, emailed it to myself, converted from PNG to JPG and done a google image search... which is a bit of a faff. Nothing has come up this time, but I'm not falling for it anyway.

It would be useful if you had something like Image search or a "suspicious profile" button which doesn't alert them directly...

And given how hot Grindr is for not allowing a pic of me showing underwear in any form - I tried to use a pic of my chest but because the original pic had underwear in it, your site says piss off! Meanwhile there's bulges and swimwear galore! So clearly someone's rabidly checking pics for the High Crime of Wearing Underwear. How about they use some of that Inquisitorial Power to search for Scammers too? The site is definitely getting overrun with people trying to get cash out of your customers, and it's going to work against Grindr in the long run, a lot more than a picture of me in my tighty whities!

Must be rules that no permission for people who just come to spam to share malware or spy

There are a few looser companies out there that constantly spam (fuckavenue.com being one example). I constantly report these spammers, but nothing is being done about it. A black-list filter would help fix it, since there are only a few known offenders.

Grindr should automatically filter any one-line URL type spam that matches a black-listed spam filter.

Hello,

You have too many spammers on Grindr app which increases frustration with users.

Because those spammers are sending pretty much all the time same texts/URLs. You can simply create a rule and a "spam content database" which can be interrogated automatically when app users are sending messages, and block a user (spammer) when sending messages with such content after 3 times in a row.

You can create an IF, here is an example:
if app user's sending same message 3 times in a row, then interrogates spam content database, if yes, then block.

Here are open source projects which can help you:
https://github.com/hl2guide/Filterlist-for-AdGuard-or-PiHole

https://github.com/rspamd/rspamd
Kind regards,

Tommy

Way too much spam

Il faudrait que vous autorisiez les messages de réseautage et d'escortes pour pouvoir les filtrer pour pouvoir s'en débarrasser le plus vite possible ✌🏻
Je commence à en avoir marre de ce genre de messages, alors que je l'ai justement écarté de ma description de profil 😎