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  1. Have a way to filter out bots solicitation and scams

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    So many bots seem to be created every single day, personally I get at least 3-5 messages daily (depending on when I'm online) with no content other than a link to a site (won't mention the exact names to avoid giving publicity but they are often "_guys.org" or "_avenue.com").

    These accounts are probably making Grindr lose out on a lot of ad revenue, since the sites they promote are getting free advertising targeted to Grindr users, so they don't need to pay for advertising from Grindr the way you're supposed to.

    Also very often get taps from accounts called "READ BIO NOW" and the bio is some kind of obvious scam claiming to be a sugar daddy offering hundreds of dollars/pounds for nothing.

    This kind of behaviour would be so easy to automatically filter out, they often don't even change anything between the accounts. Once one spam message is reported, there could be an automatic system in place to ban accounts who send out this message to many people. This would be quite simple to implement since it is extremely obvious they are not real accounts.

    A basic level of automoderation like this would go a long way towards protecting users both from the annoyance of these messages and the potential dangers for unsuspecting users who click these links.

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