BUMBLE HAS HAD THIS FEATURE FOR AGES. Bumble reqests the user to take a photo with a randomly selected gesture, then their servers/algorithm compares the selfie with gesture and the photos on the account to verify it's them. PURE AND SIMPLE, no mobile numbers needed.

Catfishing and fakes are getting out of hand. Bumble has had this feature for quite some time now, why the **** is this feature not even planned yet for grindr? This needs to be work on ASAP

There is an increased activity of drug dealers using Grindr as a platform to sell drugs. Once they've been blocked it's easy enough just to invent a new email and then they are back in business. The way to further combat this would be to have a linked phone number which they would have to verify by the same email plus to make Grindr a pay only site. This would also apply to the escorts touting for business also with the same rules. Once they've been found out to be in breech of Grindr protocol they are blocked. The beauty of phone number verification to the same email is you can block the phone accessing Grindr. Yes they would have another phone but it would make it harder and a nuisance to keep getting verified. By doing this the escort and drug dealers would be cut significantly here on Grindr and make it an enjoyable and safer app it once was before these Individuals spoilt it.

I was banned myself the other day - RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of giving someone my address to meet up (so that was ruined). I replied to them and their support write back within minutes saying my profile violated their standards and was reported. There was nothing even in it (just pic of my face and chest, and my text was very neutral, no racist nor hateful preferences, nothing at all offensive).

I emailed them and they told me "we regret to inform you that the ban will never be lifted". I replied again with a screen shot of my profile (a friend sent that to me) asking them to POINT OUT … That was weeks ago and it was never answered. I repeated the SAME email, asking what happened and never herd back. Like most mean people on the app itself - Looks like the support team also singled me out and blocked me.

Yet I see profiles with stuff like "If your over 30 F-- You", or "No Asians", etc … Even with vulgar, racist, and hateful comments RIGHT in their main LINE and profile!!!! Yet I saw those on the app for many months, never banned. So what gives?

This is like a cop just arresting you and never finding out WHY you were arrested. Plus many profiles can also be stolen (especially by people who collect your pictures and block you after you send 'em).

Pic collectors are an issue on this app, and the ability to report them shouldn't be removed when they immediately block you. There should be a 30 second window for you to report someone who blocked you to avoid the illegal non-consensual spread of nudes etc.

Have a manditory add for all of grinder that you can go on if needed for people who may need help *** addiction. Drugs. *** abuse
Harm
And have advise in it to abought people who cheat drugs ect too add should say need help or advise on amd have the lost of thi gs on it

Would prefer not to youse phone number

Meth addicts are taking over the app to buy and sell drugs i report the profiles and nothing happens we need a zero tolerance for this kina **** they should not be able to peddle this **** to our lovers and kids im ****** gringr people are dyeing do something now!!!!

bro tell the police or better yet mind your own ******* business you whiny **** its not grindrs fault or responsibility to stop drugs that is like saying roads are bad and should do something because people drive on them and traffic drugs so roads need to stop sanctioning drug use they arent part of the equation like that stupid solving drug problems is achieved by not banning drugs and making them into problems

you know grindr is probably responsible for the bots...the login feature was designed to fix the bot problem, and it did on other apps yet here the problem got worse...its an internal matter

There was a website called Connexion a decade ago that did this. They’d give you a number you’d have to write on a piece of paper, then take a selfie holding the paper, so people can see the pic matches the assigned number. It worked incredibly well, and the server admins didn’t have to do any kind of verification. Any user can see the user’s number and pic themselves to see that it’s a match.

I **** think people should be banned without any warnings (at least 3 x tones). It seems very unfair that grinder listen to 1 of the parties only and make their judgment based on 1 x opinion and ban the user. It’s not right.

I don't feel safe being unable to state that I'm drug and alcohol free. Everyone smokes weed and drinks and I don't want to be around either. You should not be allowed to block specific words at all. Figure out a better way to stop illicit activity or get out of the policing business. You don't get to tell people what to say, or how to communicate. That's ********. People need to stop ******* complaining and report profiles that are engaging in illicit activity and MOVE ON. Enough with this Orwellian ****!

hello m new help me

Process how to manage banned account for users

a bad idea. you can already weed out those with no profile image in the preferences. Some guys are just reluctant to post pics.

Stop the fraudsters that say they’re on a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan

Drugs sale is rife in Grindr. This is evident every time I open the app, and despite constant reporting and asking for profiles to be closed there seems to be very little effort from Grindr to stop this.

This market is not evident of other apps like Scruff, and it makes me wonder if is because Grindr is not doing enough to block and screen profiles. Which therefore makes me think, does Grindr really care about the community.

Drugs sales, irrespective of your view on drug use, are linked to a wide range of social problems. In London we have young people being stabbed over drug dealing, we have people becoming lost in a cycle of addiction and abuse, and also risky ****** behaviour and related STIs being escalated by the chem-*** scene.

Not all of this is Grindrs fault, and there is responsibility held by the community's liberal approach to drugs in general. It is often seen as a victimless crime, but it is not and never can be in the current socio-political climate. Someone is always being exploited, someone is always being abused, someone is always being hurt.

We should be aiming to support and enrich eachother. A goal which those who put young men out in the street to deal, or will happily hook someone into a chem-*** cycle to make another customer, do not care about.

I have looked through many of the other requests here, and it seems that many people who use the app share similar concerns. So I am surprised that Grindr has not made more effort to screen profiles/report IP addresses to enforcement.

The abuse of the community needs to stop, and apps like Grindr need to show that they care about the community they survive on.

I can report the same profile over 6 times, to still see it up and running many days later. Only to have it eventually closed down when I esclate the issue. How are profiles that are clearly dealing getting through the reporting process so regularly. They could easily just block IP addresses where they see dealing accounts coming from regularly.

I propose that Grindr makes a dedicated effort to deal with drugs on the app, in any way they can.

I have been hurt very deeply, approx 5 years age I met a guy in here that advertised he was 18 ,stupid me I later found out he was 14 I am looking at a jail term very soon, it appears the legal side of signing in as 18 men’s nothing at all

There must be a way to easily validate a users age 1 time to verify if over 18+ / 21+ / or 30+ .... This at least gives a modicum of security for those who would be to trusting. This is an absolute must. The occurence of underage users on the app is simply unacceptable. Even though it clearly violates the terms of service The potential for shananigans is just too high...