We all know the spam messages like from F︆︆︆︆︆u︆︆︆︆︆︆︆c︆︆︆︆︆︆︆k︆︆︆︆J︆︆︆︆︆︆︆o︆︆︆︆i︆︆︆︆︆︆︆n︆︆︆︆︆︆︆.︆︆︆︆︆︆c︆︆︆︆︆︆o︆︆︆︆︆︆m︆︆ and others. Why not automaticly block messages if the content is a spam website?
Or let us by our self make a filter present that **** to our message box. I was paying customer before but since you can’t solve that **** you are not worthy my money.

Alec who did you **** off lololololol

In reality, it doesn’t matter what steps Grindr takes to prevent a fake profile. The truth is that if you can make it they can fake it. Grindr shouldn’t have to be high security. Some kinks require anonymity. Should we have to give Grindr a semen sample too?

Here’s a better idea. Take what you need from Grindr and discard the rest. Don’t put yourself in a situation that is more of a risk than you are willing to take. Or fuck it... take that risk for a change! Where’s your sense of adventure?

I think if you’re that overly cautious, maybe you should just activate Grindr on your smart phone and then view it remotely from the comfort of your favorite panic room. Maybe switch to Chaturbate?

Each individual needs to be worried about their own safety. Share your location and your plans with a friend. Take precautions, but it’s not grindr’s responsibility to keep people safe. You can’t save the world and you might not be able to even save yourself. Would it be grindrs fault if you were scrolling through the grid and a weren’t paying close enough attention to your surroundings and you got hit by a bus? Is that grindrs fault too?

Everyone needs to take their own safety precautions. Grindr is not God and even God can’t keep everyone safe.

Spam messages or profile need a better check. Getting 6 messages in 10 minutes of you’re paying for extra service is not the best way.

You have banned my account for sharing gifs that are completely legitimate because they are on your options just because of a malicious person. Nudes are actually not permitted on Grindr yet you choose to ignore this willingly and just because a few individuals collectively decide to block me I am banned. I was called a Paki before without the person receiving repercussions.

Grindr doesn’t actually care about its users safety, I’m being abused daily by a new fake account and all they have to do after I block them is make another and the cycle repeats

An informal definition of service profiles are things such as masseuse, waxing, or escort, etc.

There is a lot of spam from supposed service profiles (probably bots) that want to just get your online account information and then there are legitimate service profiles that want to provide services that lgbt people may actually be interested in.

Grindr could have a feature that verifies actual service profiles (sort of like verifying a profile photo) and cleans up unverified service profiles that have not requested verification from the app. This way a lot of noise is removed for regular users not having to talk to bots and two if people are looking for services such as waxing, masseuse, etc they can be rest assured that they are communicating to an actual verified person.

The app could load balance the application into two different sets of data the official service profile data and the regular user data. This would presumably help with performance since the main view doesn't have to handle a bunch of spam profiles.

A user's device should be blocked when blocking, and put a **** 15-30 day hold on the email/device used when accounts are deleted. It's really annoying blocking the same mf several times in a 24hr period, cause all the b_tch does is delete and make another profile, delete and make another profile, over and over and over. Grindr is getting tiresome and trashy. Trolls are over running.

The problem with this is that this would be a huge privacy and identity theft issue in the event of a data breach.

they could just automatically remove messages with weblinks.
this would remove all those "if u wanna fuck, visit ..."

True threats are a criminal act, and thus a law enforcement problem. You should go to the police about this. That said, you might want to stop and think about your actions that may have brought this on, and modify your own behavior as well.

The thing is that the "We can do whatever we want" stipulation has a limit- and that limit is that a contract cannot allow the commission of a civil tort or a criminal act, without being null and void on its face, and in it's entirety if there is no severability clause. Thus, the best way of handling this is for someone to file a lawsuit which will make them think twice.

Here’s an idea (from someone Grindr recently bans for no reason)... no more bans! How about infractions instead, of downtown uses a a tree emoji to express their love of the outdoors and save characters, but Grindr interprets it as something else, the user gets a message to change it instead of flat out being banned. How about when you message customer service about a ban they actively try to help you instead of copy and pasting Grindr’s “we can do whatever we want” stipulation. Grindr has an “F” rating on the BBB, so they think they can keep that up long term? Nah

Grindr is not doing anything at all to prevent fake profiles being created (again and again and again).

They know the problem very well, but appear to conciously choose not to fix things. People can use fake email to register, link to you Instagram without you knowing it (it's a one way link) and when they get blocked they just start over.

Plenty of options for Grindr to take action to make the platform more useable, as now in some areas there seem to be more fake than real profiles and meeting up is not happening at all.
Aside fdrom that they need to protect the identity of people that are not even on the platform but whose pictures are abused.

Start with verification of the cell-phone number do when somebody is abusing the platform they cannot simply make a new account.
Then add photo verification such as the one on Dudesnude (which doesn't mean the verified picture needs to be visible on the profile, you would be able to send it to prove you are real), then add a way of indicating that you know someone in real life, such as PlanetRomeo has implemented, do bi-directional linking of social media platforms like Instagram such as implemented in Tinder and others.

If Grindr really wants to do something... They can.

I have blocked someone over 20 times and reported his threats and harassment a few times since 2017. He just creates a new profile and continues his harrassment. This needs to change so they can't another account when they been making threats. 3 years I have dealt with this. once someone is harassing another they shouldn't be allowed on here at all.

This is very odd.... I have no idea why my photo is rejected because of copyright infringement. I don’t expect there’s any similar pics here. I suppose there is something wrong with the machine learning algorithm. Please check!

Pictures stolen Again.

Keep being contacted by fake accounts.

Lots of additional features but none to keep users safe.

This is not good enough.

I think their is a massive opportunity for grinder to be the best, be a community that has good values and puts users safety first. With no user verification that works and is effective you are letting your app users down.

I’ve had someone use my photos to make multiple profiles and they put HIV+ so now I have to send a picture of my test results and video call every guy that I talk to. This needs to stop. Safety should be your number 1 priority. What are you guys doing with your overpriced Grindr+ revenues?

Display picture keeps being rejected. It follows your guidelines and is funny. I’ve seen much worse posted such as drug use nudity the works! Why am I being singled out for something so innocent? I have been assaulted through this app and need some discretion with the photo I’m trying to use!

Hlo dear