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    Anonymous commented  · 

    Drugs sale is rife in Grindr. This is evident every time I open the app, and despite constant reporting and asking for profiles to be closed there seems to be very little effort from Grindr to stop this.

    This market is not evident of other apps like Scruff, and it makes me wonder if is because Grindr is not doing enough to block and screen profiles. Which therefore makes me think, does Grindr really care about the community.

    Drugs sales, irrespective of your view on drug use, are linked to a wide range of social problems. In London we have young people being stabbed over drug dealing, we have people becoming lost in a cycle of addiction and abuse, and also risky ****** behaviour and related STIs being escalated by the chem-*** scene.

    Not all of this is Grindrs fault, and there is responsibility held by the community's liberal approach to drugs in general. It is often seen as a victimless crime, but it is not and never can be in the current socio-political climate. Someone is always being exploited, someone is always being abused, someone is always being hurt.

    We should be aiming to support and enrich eachother. A goal which those who put young men out in the street to deal, or will happily hook someone into a chem-*** cycle to make another customer, do not care about.

    I have looked through many of the other requests here, and it seems that many people who use the app share similar concerns. So I am surprised that Grindr has not made more effort to screen profiles/report IP addresses to enforcement.

    The abuse of the community needs to stop, and apps like Grindr need to show that they care about the community they survive on.

    I can report the same profile over 6 times, to still see it up and running many days later. Only to have it eventually closed down when I esclate the issue. How are profiles that are clearly dealing getting through the reporting process so regularly. They could easily just block IP addresses where they see dealing accounts coming from regularly.

    I propose that Grindr makes a dedicated effort to deal with drugs on the app, in any way they can.

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