There should be a filter that let us decide in what range of ages we want our profiles to be shown

I agree with the OP that it is very creepy when I get messages from those 25 and under, so I actively filter for them and block them. Not only do I not want messages from them, I don't even wish to be visible to them.

It would be nice to automate this process.

I generally have no interest in younger people at all. I have nothing in common with the younger generation. However, sometimes I will send a younger person a message -- usually a compliment ‐- and I state that I am not hitting on them; rather I just want to comment on some aspect of their profile. Many young people are friendly and polite, but some are just horrible. I once sent a comment to a young man who was quite far away and told him I liked-- I think it was the same type of music he mentioned in his profile. Well, this guy went off on me and accused me of being a pedophile and worse. I don't like to block people, so I tried to reason with him and he just kept getting more and more accusatory and asked me how many young boys I'd raped! Mind you, he was in his early thirties! I finally had to block him.

I have also had guys who attacked me (there is no other word) without my even contacting them! They come out of nowhere and say things like, "You don't belong on this app, you're too old" and things to that effect. And I've even seen profiles that say, "no creepy old men over 30". Some of it is ridiculous.

I have no real problem with young people who only want to meet people their own age and I steer absolutely clear of anyone who says they have a preference for any age group that I don't belong to.

But I don't think this idea should be implemented unless you allow people to also block younger people too. I have had many, many young people approach me and very often I have told them that I'm not interested in them. Actually, most if them are bottoms and since I'm a bottom it would never work anyway. A lot of these young guys get very aggressive when I tell them I'm not interested.

Generally speaking, I prefer guys near my own age. But I find it ridiculous when guys over 40 or 50 say in their profile that they are only interested in guys under 25 (!) And even demand that all their sexual partners are also buff, handsome and slender. Especially when a lot of them are fifty pounds overweight, short, bald and ugly. It boggles the mind! I mean, if YOU wouldn't hook up with YOU, why should anyone else be interested?

This is ageist - same as racists exclusion.

Would it be possible to add a data in the profile to indicate the age range you are looking for? And also put a search data to find only profiles that look for people of our age? This would avoid sending a message to someone who is not looking for people with your age.

It’s more polite to say what you do like, than what you don’t like. The implication should be clear to most people if I say ‘looking for younger slim guys or Twinks’
But some people can’t take a hint.
I rarely block anyone. I prefer to favourite them so I can keep an eye on them. The ability to have multiple profiles should be addressed
I like guys to give me their preferences. But profiles without a pic and no biographical detail annoy me.
I don’t want to appear sleazy so I rarely make the first approach.
But it is the Year of the Daddy,

Bad idea. Grindr works because it's a free for all. Start imposing a load of conditions for people to jump through and a lot of people will just switch off, killing the user base.

I also find messages from 50 year olds quite tiresome but honestly, you need to deal.

And also keep the profile from being displayed to people outside you preferred age range. (Older and Younger limits - some ppl don't want anyone messaging them if the other person is *below* a certain age)

The only thing i think would be nice to be able to block would be those without a face pic. Now that's creepy and I've had some real bad experiences with people that hide behind an anonymous profile. But age? Why not block asians, blacks, trans, etc. If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Or cough up the money for a subcription with unlimited blocks if you cant stand too many guys lusting after you. Lol. I saw one 28 year old saying no one above 35 because he's not trying to date someone old enough to be his grandpa. With a 7 year age difference? Thats ridiculous. Is this high school? Also it may be extremely hard to believe for some, but there are younger guys that want older guys. If it's not your cup of tea, then don't answer.

To the coment made by anonymous i guess did say. The amount of man that whants to date KIDS so im on a wrong site i thought this is a MANS site ...and by you sayng man wanna to date kids ...do you know how many kids also look at mans profiles have notice that of course not you into being so wright that you don t even see of whats going on if you considere yourself a kid im not sure whos on the wrong site you or me?

What about below your age range? That's why it's called a age range and I agree with you but it should be both directions not just older

Well i agree that everyone should choose the age range but if anyone sends a msg to you and just because that person is not your age range you should specefy on your profile the age range instead of calling name to people like creepy and assume that we all the same makes you ignorant and stupid because i can tell you that if you think of guys like me as creepy i csn tell you that some young guys can je REALLY RRALLY creepy so don t use that as an excuse to hide your behavior this is not a playground like some guys are here just play with others To male them look like à fool ....you are 18 and you are here so you are a men ? Then act like one this is a site for man to meet man so don t use age as to categoriz it as creepy that comes in all ages its like you being ignorant it also comes all ages... have respect and you get respect and agree with me or not i just had to say something and btw your time will come so feeling sorry the way you think you don t care but you will
Ps; Why is it that young guys want daddy types guy does that mean they wanna to sleep with they te father you are creepy

I’m gonna say to both the person that came up with this idea and anonymous that said it should be flagged as an appropriate… If a person doesn’t want to be with you they don’t want to be with you inappropriate maybe maybe not but from a 50-year-old man’s perspective we may want to use that same application to block people that are too young and when you get my age you’ll appreciate what I’m saying

What’s all this b******* about ageism seriously. So if we don’t like receiving 100 messages a day from guys that could sometimes be old enough to be our grandad we’re the creep?! It’s not called discrimination it’s called preferences and you all know about this word because you’re actually are clicking on these young profiles...
People can’t even have their notifications on.
Maybe some of you guys have the time to say « sorry not my type » to dozens of people every day but I don’t consider myself a robot.

Not one sane person in the straight community would call this ageism they just call it common sense. Just look at tinder or any other dating app. Some of the guys need to grow up (ironically)

I completely agree with you. The numerous of older that absolutely want to date kids 🙄🙄. Looks like they live in **** movie or fantasy land 🤷🏽‍♂️ And don’t call that “taste”when the majority behave the same. It’s just gay mimicry

Discrimination is discrimination. If we want to allow age discrimination, then have a check box where you can say block messages from? Then list every class you can discriminate against such as Disabled, Age, Each specific ethnicity, Every illness, Every Nationality, Every income class, Every ****** identity, etc. Grinder can then be a forum to discriminate against every protected class.

We should all have unlimited blocking abilities

Take this to its fullest, full message filtering age, height, ECT....

Message to sender saying it has been filtered

I only think that automatically block someone for one generic and unchangeable think is so racist. It like block someone who is black, trans, or fat.

Anyone have the right to make choices but not the high to create a rule for exclude others.

Whilst I understand that some young guys don't have a preference for those older than themselves (I felt the same when I was young), I feel that so many young guys are extremely rude to the point of being obscene and vulgar in sending messages of hate that are very offensive. Ageism isn't nice and young guys need to understand how hurtful their messages can be.
They should understand that they won't always be young and that one day they too will be what they call "old". I can only hope they react well when the abuse and ageist comments are made towards them !