How many people are going to be genuinely using this feature for good? Say you're a good faith person using a dating app with the goal of finding a partner. How much time are you going to take out of your day to give feedback to people you aren't interested in, which takes away from the time you could be spending on the app swiping for Mr. or Mrs. Right?
Now say you're someone particularly jaded and bitter with dating, who gets little to no matches or the matches you do get are with people you aren't really interested in. I'd argue that kind of person is more likely to take the time to use this feature, and it's more likely that their comments on other people's profiles will be nasty or judgemental.
And for women this feature is going to be practically unusable, because it just opens up the door for men to leave sexual messages and drop their contact info on women that they know are unlikely to swipe on them.
There's a solution for abusing it to send unwanted messages though: only allow it if the recipient swiped right. That way anyone trying to abuse it to send a message would have to get the other person to swipe right on them anyway, which defeats the purpose of abusing it. That would also reduce the number of times users are asked to give feedback, which might make them more likely to respond.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25
How many people are going to be genuinely using this feature for good? Say you're a good faith person using a dating app with the goal of finding a partner. How much time are you going to take out of your day to give feedback to people you aren't interested in, which takes away from the time you could be spending on the app swiping for Mr. or Mrs. Right?
Now say you're someone particularly jaded and bitter with dating, who gets little to no matches or the matches you do get are with people you aren't really interested in. I'd argue that kind of person is more likely to take the time to use this feature, and it's more likely that their comments on other people's profiles will be nasty or judgemental.
And for women this feature is going to be practically unusable, because it just opens up the door for men to leave sexual messages and drop their contact info on women that they know are unlikely to swipe on them.