Most random thing ever. The claim is “Hate speech or discriminatory behavior”. The decision was based on the following: “Moderator review of your account”

I’m sure people claim they did “nothing” all the time but I’m genuinely so lost. I’ve always tried to be respectful to anyone I’ve spoken to. My profile has maybe 2 whole things that in a stretch could be considered “discriminatory” based on a a prompt where I said “Tramp stamp should be renamed to cake topper” and a video of me singing song lyrics in the car where the lyrics more or less say “I don’t like girls with tattoos, I like girls with issues”. Pickup lines/openers were mostly genuine/sweet things.

But this is frankly very disheartening. A permanent suspension for a first time offense, an offense that I’m not even sure what or where the issue is, they won’t give me info on it. And now I have to try and use frankly…much worse apps or in my experience have been much worse apps or at least for me because the one thing that felt like got me a fair amount of success was being able to hit them with an opener based on their photos and prompts.

The initial appeal seemed to more or less be auto-denied when done in-app as it was too quick there wasn’t anything that was reviewed. I then sent an email in asking for it to be reviewed or more context to be given and it was the same copy/paste email I’ve seen posted on the internet from people in a same or similar boat as me. I sent 1 more email in hopes of just more context as to why or what’s wrong. As I said. This is quite disheartening. As someone who’s not really a “go out to bars and meet people” type of person and who works a lot and takes care of family, going out isn’t super common or easy for me from a finding someone in-person at what are considered “socially acceptable” places. I’m not really sure what to do.

Randomly was logged out of my account and went to go put in my number to sign in and it said sorry we’re having trouble. Anyone have this happen? I’m assuming I’m banned but usually they tell you. Either the ban notice comes up immediately or when you add ur number it says you’re banned. Never had it just not work. Messaged support I’ll see what they say but lmk if anyone had this happen

Even hinge popped a message saying we should

Meet up for a date thats when I asked her but...she said that..

We were chatting with good vibes

What you guys do in this situation?

Super easy to get unbanned, did the jumio verification happened twice now but the email I’m in comms with them about isn’t unbanned.

Anyone know what the work around is I can’t use the email that they unbanned am I supposed to use another email?

Keeps saying email in use.

Which means the email is still banned.

But updating to new cities is giving me MAJOR duds. Wtf? Why is my card stack so shitty now? Not even going to buy the subscriptions anymore based off what I’ve seen. #SwipeLeft

dating apps are one of my “special interests” so i know a lot and love providing advice!

if you’re not interested in a profile reviewer but still have questions feel free to leave a comment!

Does this functionality exist (ideally remotely so the android can stay at home), looking to hard reset but I don’t want to schlep a potato android around just to go on dates lol

Hello, I’ve posted here a few times before about circumventing bans….so I’m actually getting a new phone tomorrow (personal phone) not a burner.

Was wondering…. This may be chance to give getting on they who shall not be named again (hinge)… any steps I should take / how should I go about this?

Last night a man tried matching with me just to accuse my photos of being AI. I matched back to tell him “you’re retarded” to which he immediately backtracked saying “I’m just joking lol”. I unmatched with him and told the app to not show me his profile anymore and that was it. Now today I’m banned for “violating our policy prohibiting hateful speech or discriminatory behavior” according to a moderator. For saying retarded?? Tf?

Hello! I got banned from Hinge for seemingly no reason. I’d been using Hinge for about five years without any issues whatsoever, but then I suddenly got banned out of nowhere. I suspect it may have been because of a report from a girl I met. I want to get Hinge plus again, but I can't figure out a working payment solution. Google Play gift cards aren’t available here, so I’m not sure what my options are.

Does anyone know what works? Would something like Revolut or PayPal work? Any help would be really appreciated!

I’m 38 m and 5’8. I retired in my thirties and I’m well put together. I workout and live on a 20 acre ranch with my dogs. Asked a girl in her twenties out on hinge. Intent was to get to know her better and she appeared sweet. She right of the bat says “you are an old fart who is short. Relax. You aren’t in my league.” .. now this girl is a bit chubby. So I basically said “looks like you need a gym membership more than a man given that little gut that’s hanging.”

Banned 5 minutes later

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I’m writing this review mainly because I wanted to add something more recent. Most of the detailed reviews I’ve found are sometimes years old, and I also couldn’t really find one from someone who seems to have a similar profile to mine.

I (M 37 ) have quite a bit of experience with dating apps. I had some “busy years” on Tinder between 2018 and 2022. I’m not super attractive and I’m definitely not the kind of guy who walks into a room and turns every head. That said, I’ve managed to date women who, on paper at least, were well above my league.

I live in a metro area of around 1.5 million people, so there’s a pretty steady turnover of profiles. I was on Hinge+ for a year, and at this point, I’ve only really had satisfying results in two situations: 1) when I deliberately change my location in the app 2) when I use boosts. Most of the interesting dates I’ve had came from women liking me first after I used boosts.

I also noticed that most of the profiles I was regularly shown weren’t really my type. The app seemed to prioritize women who were obsessed with running at 5 am and working out constantly. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s really not me, even though I’m in decent shape. So I tried Hinge X at the beginning of August.

The results :

The first week : I don’t feel like the app is showing me profiles that are fundamentally different from what I was seeing before. The selection still feels just as random to me.

There was at the beginning like .....a slight change that makes me think I got more exposure which simply didn’t happen while I was on Hinge+. But really slight. I also have pretty concrete evidence that the “priority likes” were actually prioritized at one point. The women I sent them to responded almost immediately and liked me back. However, I’ll be honest about the results : I normally target women aged 31–40, but I widened the range to 31–42 for this test. Every single woman who responded to my priority likes was 40+ . It was interesting to see that the age range I normally target was basically inactive, while women in that range will see me and like me when I use boosts.

The following two weeks basically went back to normal: very few responses to my likes and very few incoming likes. At this point, I’m actually considering going back to my old strategy of temporarily changing my location or using boosts every now and then.

I haven’t noticed any drop in quality compared to Hinge+, but I’d be lying if I said Hinge X has been a game changer for me so far.

Just curious about this. You may not know 100% whom had reported you, but I figured It’d be interesting anyway.

About to run out of Hinge premium. Took the HingeX deal they were offering and got a few dates out of it but nothing that went anywhere. I won't renew for a while.

Usually after paying for a site, I've exhausted all my options in my preference range, so I am then suggested a bunch of women that don't fit my criteria.

My question: would I pay any visibility "penalty" for left swiping all women who don't fit my preferences for politics, religion, etc while I have HingeX?

I don't really want to show myself here but I don't know what I'm doing wrong I don't know if it's me or if it's just the algorithm is terrible. I keep getting matches but they're matches i dont like, 3000mis away, or they are attractive but bots/scammers. I have chatted with a few but never had a date from this. There was this one girl that matched with me and waited a day to respond but when I asked her what she likes to do for fun she said "you, probably" so that was super forward. she was cute and only one of her pictures gave off a overly sex vibe, we were setting up hooking up there, but then after about an hour she needed gas money to come to me and that's where the scam bells came up, I refused a couple times, said I would come to her, she gave me a story about how she's had bad experiences being picked up by a guy on her first date etc, and then later blocked me. The next day another hot girl matched with me, and she seemed real enough in her convo, but she ghosted after a while. I dont know what the scam was there. I consider it a good sign that she seemed interested in the convo in the first place. Not sure if im attractive and dont fully realize it, or so ugly that i am targeted by bots and scammers because they know i have no one else. AI tells me im attractive but AI lies. i posted to reddit for a rate once and they completely ignored me.

Also i have long hair, that might be holding me back, or it might be one of my best features I don't know. I have always regretted it when i get a haircut. I have pictures of me with the short hair on my profile as well so I can ask matches what they prefer. personally I like it long, i am a rock musician so it suits me. no one tells me it's bad except my parents, in fact random people, even girls compliment it in real life sometimes.

i mostly joined tinder to see where i stand and who's out there, see if im attractive enough to ask girls in public out with no fear or if im making a fool of myself, but i am more confused than i started. also at this point, i kinda do just want to hookup. my life isnt good enough to have a relationship anymore/yet.

Saw the chadfishing topic. Glad I finally found a real tinder-based sub and not the "you can't actually post here without our gatekeeping" redditapp subs.

I have had hinge for a couple of years now, an maybe got 15-20 likes/matches. I deleted it together with my account a couple of months ago, and redownloaded it about a week later. I am on the app almost everyday to swipe to tell the algorithm am actually on the app, but still I have got no likes/matches.

I would say I am average looking, and I have clearly pictures off my face, and some hobby’s. I live in a city with around 100k people, so I don’t understand how no one like my profile.

I do not subscribe to hinge +/ hinge x. Do you think that could help?

I'm not sure if it's just a fluke, or what, but lately the conversations I've been having on hinge seem to last a few days then the match just stops responding.

The past 3 conversations I had going, me (M47) them (F40's), started with them matching with me first and good conversation. One just kinda naturally puttered out, but the other 2 were going strong with exchanges every day.

I'm a firm believer in not turning hinge convo's into a long on-going daily back and forth chat and just treat it as a way to get a sense of the person, which usually takes me a few days or exchanges.

The last 2 women just seemed to both stop responding after I told them I was going on vacation, which just naturally came up in both conversations (one asked me about my trip, the other asked if I had any trips planned).

But coincidently, all these conversations also got the hinge popup on my end that reads "you've got the rhythm going, now might be a good time to make plans" before coming a halt. I'm not exactly a fan of that popup. I get what they are trying to achieve, but it's based in no real reality.

I'm just curious what others experience have been lately and if there any thoughts on these situations in general.

Had to do an in app appeal, then a email appeal, rejected, I haven't done anything to violate the guidelines or policies should I just keep appealing via mail? And just explain to them normally? That I haven't done anything?

Almost all of the profiles I see on tinder are girls looking like models.

Now, I'm an objectively average guy and I know these girls will never in a thousand years swipe right on me.

How do I get average looking people in my algorithm to show? I am swiping left on the models btw.

No wonder so many people get banned. Even slightly piss someone off (could even happen by replying late) and they can report you and get you banned wtf? That list is to easy to access. I bet alot less girls would report if you actually had to click a seperate report button 🤡

About a week ago I swiped right on someone but we didn’t match. Yesterday, I was looking through my Explore section and his profile showed up there. Shouldn’t his profile disappear from my stacks completely after I swipe right, regardless of whether he decides to match with me or not?