Staff complaint. Not an idea. I have NOT spammed anyone. And I never will. Why then am I being accused of such actions and why have I received a permanent ban?

I feel discriminated against by your staff member Daniel. I put in a second ticket about his behaviour and he merged it into my first ticket with him and then closed it off.

Very unprofessional behaviour. I want a second opinion and I want evidence to show that I was spamming or remove the ban.

If Grindr introduced this feature it will impact the number of users negatively (they love it being inflated) and they need the inflated number to stay atop stats and sell themselves to the advertisers. Very simple, pathetic way to make money. After all it’s a Chinese company owned by a straight guy, nothing more than just a business

They don't care at all, you can create a new profile in minutes after having been banned.
Not only fake profiles but escorts also, in some towns, they make up to 25% of profiles.

This is needed ASAP, apart from the catfishes and prostitutes, i have a STALKER (police been involved and everything) who the moment I block all he does is create a new profile and continues the harassment. PLEASE Grindr, dress this issue asap!!!

Uh no thanks my address is none of grindrs business but clearly visible on my id.

Horrible idea. Ok maybe some pic s like trees aren't helpful but some of us are discrete but I for one at least want something so I for one have s torso shot, I actually specifically ask for a torso shot if I can't see it in any other pics I get but that's just me. Don't hate on those who aren't out.

Best we can do is not pay anymore till they solve this. I'm not willing to pay for a prostitutes catalogue.

Fake location is easy enough to obtain with appropriate software, however, it defies the sole purpose of Grindr and there is no justification to use it normally. There are dating websites for such purposes, and although it's not hard to discover such user, it requires some time and effort which is cumbersome. Technically, Grindr's system can easily monitor the rate of location alteration and if it is abnormal (e.g. 5 km/msec), the system can give for example one fair warning and ban the user if this continues.I cannot think of any legitimate mean for using fake locations on an app like this.

Today I was on and saw about 25 full underwear pics, with errction outlines, grabbing themself, and even showing their ****. A couple I had reported a week ago and they are still up.

I tried 5 times to post a pic of me in a swim suit and it was denied every time.

I think you guys need to definitely do gerifoed accounts. I love grindr, but if I get one more fake sugar daddy message from a fake profile, Im gonna lose it. I think you guys should make it MANDATORY to have a verified account if you are gonna have one with grindr. Now I understand some people dont want to show their face. Which is fine. They should just have a BLANK profile. They should not have anyone elses picture up, catfishing guys on here. Its just not cool. If you decided to have a picture. Then it mist be made mandatory that you verify it. If you cant verify it then you just cant have a picture up. That way we can weed out all of these fakes. Just an Idea. All of the ****** hookup/dating apps have it. I put grindr on a higher pedistal than the rest. Hook up wise haha. So I believe you guys should def have it.

They simply don't care. There's no excuse these days to how they don't have it under control. Their ability to provide moderation is an embarrassment, and they don't require a validated email or any kind of validation. I would not be surprised if they're in partnership with whomever is placing the bots, to either get a kickback, or allowing so many bots that more people upgrade to be able to block them all. Typical greedy company that pretends to care about the community.

When it comes to verifying users there needs to be stricter checks on ages. I cant think right now on how that can be done for the moment but surely there must some ideas in place. The amount of times this week I have had to report underage profiles to grindr, yet still waiting for the report to be checked everytime I see their page and want to re report it still says the last report is still pending as a result.

What’s up with the inescapable straight spam? The more I see, the more I read about who owns this product, the less I trust it.

50% of the profiles in my town are fake. You can be smart and ask them a lot of questions, to weed out the fakes before you talk about anything serious, but that is time consuming and takes the fun out of this site.

There was a dating site called RealJock. During registration, they put a 6-digit alphanumeric code on the screen. The code was unique for each user. If you wanted the "verified" badge on your profile, you needed to take a photo holding the alphanumeric code on paper. A moderator would look to see if your face photo with the code matched your face photo you previously uploaded.

Yes - use credit card verification or ID verification before the person's profile can be approved.

We need this. It seems like Grindr is not even trying to address this problem. Since you already have moderators who approve photos, maybe use them to do this.

Not from outside of Grindr.. inside Grindr

Hello Grindr,

It's been a while I use Grindr , I know among all profiles there are several escort boys. I never mind until yesterday.
I'm in Bogota right now, I met a guy last night here, he came to my hotel , we did what we had to do and at the end he asked me for money. I always heard lots of similar histories but this was my turn. The hotel security helped me, but this escort was very wise , he blocked me on Grindr when the police arrived, so all the conversation we had , I could not show to the cops. To prove I didn't hire a escort boy.
To finish , I had to pay some money cause I could not prove I didn't hire a escort, cause I could not access the conversation on Grindr.

I ask you to consider, even when I person block you, we have access to the conversation. It could had helped me a lot.
Thanks for your attention

I’ve recently deleted Grindr due to all the bots and fakes. Something so simple that Kik has is that it tells you wether the picture you’ve been sent was taken live with the camera or not. Sure you might have favourite saved pictures you like to share but at least they can be compared to the live pictures. I’ll use Grindr again when this mess is cleaned up