Many profiles that view, message, and tap me are nearly twice my age. There are a lot of us who can’t go that far and feel a bit creeped out (also the same for those who are far younger than me) It would be nice if you can set an age (min/max) to be able to even view your profile.

The reason this is a HORRIBLE IDEA is:

A LOT of people lie about their age. It will just become more prevalent with this feature. You think “fake profiles” are a problem ... this would be worse.

Or under your preferred age if needed, if we are being ageist at least be fair about it!!!

This suggestion might not be aptly formulated. It's more about the possibility of filtering who can see your profile based on age (which means that age disclosure must be mandatory - but that is another story). I'd fully support that user have this option if they feel like it !

You should be able to block people who are older than your parents from viewing your profile without extra cost. I’m 23 and tried to block a 52 year old and I was asked to upgrade to XTRA for the luxury of keeping a predator from viewing my profile.

This could be an Extra feature of open for everyone.

You make it compulsory for everyone to enter bother their age and your age range but with the option of hiding both.. read on.

You then have an automatic filtering out of profiles outside of ones preferred age range in the cascades/front page.

This means that nobody will be messaged by or message someone outside of their mutual age range.

This feature could be applied to other features like tribes.

I do not understand why this isn't the app behavior by default – Tinder and its derivatives only show you people who are in your age range, location range, etc as dictated by your dating profile preferences.

RE: Ageism. No. First, this goes both ways – plenty of guys don't want younger guys messaging them and plenty of younger guys don't want older guys messaging them. Second, I find it incredibly insincere to paint this as a case of discrimination akin to racism – just look at the power dynamic –older men are overwhelmingly represented in politics. They are overwhelmingly represented in executive offices. Old men hold *all* the power in this country. It is not structurally possible for a young person to "oppress" an old person. This feeble attempt at using the language of social justice reeks of Boomer entitlement to people's bodies. I have put in my profile that I am looking for guys around my age because to be outside that age range is to necessarily be in radically different places in our lives, and with completely different socializations stemming from the changes that occur over generations, and that is not conducive to my end goal – it is a perfectly valid thing to consider when dating, and the vast majority of people do – everyone has an ceiling and floor on who they'd date. Most if not 100% of say 30 year olds would never even consider dating an 85 year old. So stop white-knighting for the young/old or whomever you're getting angsty about because you TOO also have an age ceiling/floor.

Last, you won't stop people from just blocking those who fall outside their preferences anyway. This will happen no matter what, and it is frustrating for the person being messaged, and hurtful for the one on the receiving end. If only there were a way so that neither party could be made aware of each others' existence and this whole situation could be avoided anyway?

This feature is LONG overdue.

Agreed with this actually, but not just ABOVE please BELOW! I'm 30 and dont want messages from under 27s.

People must be special kind of ****** to think it is ageism to block people of older ages. ****** preferances are not discriminatory, sexuality can't be changed if someone is not interested in older ages you absoluty twats!

Please flag this idea as inappropriate. It violates one of the legally protected classes. It’s also just immature in general.

To OP, grow up. There are more constructive ways of dealing with the type of people YOU attract.

It’s annoying that people within a certain age range you’re not interested in can still see your profile and message you. If one’s only interested in guys between the ages of x and y, then there should be an option that would only let guys that are in that age range see your profile.

This would fall under being discriminatory by way of ageism. However, perhaps it would be better to report these profiles as creepy if they do not seem to get the hint if you tell them they are being creepy. If enough people report the profile, it would be great if they could be deleted by the Admins for being harassing. Because you're right, those kinds of messages that seem so copy paste get annoying and are creepy, I like to call them out on it so they stop, but its pretty much pointless. They respond as if they're throwing a temper tantrum. Plus it doesn't stop people from putting lower ages like they do already, or none at all.

Again, the problem isn't the app, and filtering isn't gonna do anything but make people find ways around it. Instead of just filtering or blocking people, either report them if they're being scary, or tell them that they're being creepy if they are. Hopefully eventually they'll get the hint to change and try a more respectable approach. Its only through honest communication that things can change. Some of those older guys grew up in an era where that sort of coming on to a person was the way that things were done, and to them it doesnt seem creepy. But since no one tells them that, instead just blocks them, they feel rejected for their age and never understand that if they simply changed their approach they might get a different response. Give people the opportunity to change, if they don't, then block them or report them..

One day you will grow up. In the meantime, go **** yourself

This doesnt seem, this is discrimination pure as watter.
If.you want not to get those messages, just block the profiles man. There you go, your solution.

i do hesitate at blocking anything for prefferences i mean this is how we find out we like new thingsi mean how will you know if you never tried it and really you are all gonna get old but i have endured the creepo that will just not give up when reason has to have demonstrated that sorry man you just haven't got the "daddy thing going for you" or that the fact that its way to creepy to imagine my fathers wrinkled up old *** do maybe we could just have some more room in our profile description i have resorted to making memes that i can type up more info on or taking a picture of a printed paper to increase the size of the profile and things about me just to help people have a better chance that they might realize there fate before they get rejected

Feels like discrimination based on age... will the next idea be to block people from another race from messaging you?

Automatically block all profiles apart from my selected age range. For example, I prefer guys 40 and above. So, all guys younger than 40 should be blocked from seeing and messaging me. Same way I can send messages to guys who prefer my age.

There are many examples of "creepy messaging" and it's not just sourced from or directed towards any particular demographic.

This is a good idea but to narrow, open it up to any of the filters available.

If you don't want to be bothered by people with X, Y, Z characteristics, a feature to block accounts outside those parameters from sending you messages, pictures and taps could be a good thing.

Personally, if you're going to judge me based on X, Y, or Z characteristics, I probably wouldn't want to get to know you at all. I have no problem blocking individuals I find creepy.

Not wanting to date or hookup with individuals I don't find an attraction too is not bigotry, it's just preference.

I'll chat, have drinks or become friends with nearly anyone if there's something interesting about a person. You can't tell that from demographics.

People searching on Grindr tend to compartmentalize everyone enough as it is, looking for people who are the particular "type" they're after - far more than in a club for example, where you don't check someone's driving licence for their age and ask if they're a top before you even say hello.
This would make it way worse.
You could always stick to just dating guys in your high school and use Grindr only when you grow up!

I think a request to chat feature would be better and you can just deny it if they're out of your age range or you're not interested. All these old gays are into younger probably because they didn't get a chance to hookup at a young age because Grindr didn't exist. It still can be creepy tho because it's like seeing your parents or grandparents hookup with people your age which is gross given the age gap.