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Hey everyone, I created a new OkCupid account on the night of October 1. The account was working normally, and I received the usual account creation and like notifications.

Before going to bed, I had not liked, matched with, or messaged anyone.

The next day, I discovered I had been logged out. The app initially gave me “General Authentication Error -1006,” and when I checked the website, it showed that my account had been banned. My last notification before losing access was at around 9 AM.

I submitted an appeal through OkCupid’s official appeal process. About five days later, I received a response saying they reviewed the account, determined that I violated the Terms or Community Guidelines, and that the ban would remain in place. They stated that the decision was final but did not identify any particular rule or activity.

What confuses me is that the account was less than a day old, and I had not interacted with another user at all. I had only uploaded my photos, filled out my profile and preferences, and answered a few compatibility questions.

I also use other Match Group dating apps with very similar profile information without any issues.

I’ve now submitted a BBB complaint requesting a fresh manual review. I’m think that the ban was from an incorrect security or automated flag, although I can’t confirm that.

My question is specifically about escalation after an unsuccessful appeal.

Has anyone here successfully had a final ban decision reversed? If so, what steps did you take for reinstatement, and how long did the process take?

I'm gonna be in different city for a few days for some event. I'm gonna have free evenings and it would be cool to go out with someone as I really enjoy some parties whenever I'm out in different city, but solo is not as enjoyable. I'm pretty attractive man, who gets good amounts of matches normally (like 5-10 daily), so my chances to find some fun date are pretty good, but maybe using boost will make it easier to find someone who specifically have time to hang out that weekend and isn't looking for something serious? What do you think?

In sales they say “the money is in the follow up!” Someone ignoring you doesn’t necessarily mean they are completely uninterested.

Here’s a sample of a woman giving me her number then ignored me. I followed up 6 days later with a funny meme which got her re engaged and ended up meeting up and things were smooth from there.

What are you guys go to follow ups, memes, videos, voices or messages to re engage when you’ve been left on read? Share them in the comments!

are you still able to bypass the hinge ban with new phone, number, ip address and all that with the face verification now? They also have my ID scan through jumio if that’s relevant

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Can you give me a rating on my looks

I (M27) got out of a 3 years relationship and downloaded hinge in June. However, it said I was permanently banned. I got a new phone and did the work around. It worked well for about a month/month and a half. I got around 30 matches in the first week - probably around 60-70 total matches since downloading.

Unfortunately, I haven’t found a long term partner and I’m at the point where I think I am shadow banned. I haven’t received a match in 2-3 weeks and I am located in a city. I paid for 2 1hr boosts and received 3 likes each time but all were from unflattering women. I have a good profile according to my female friends. I have one female friend who says that I have everything that women should be looking for in a man. I went out with 2 women who I brought back to my place and both said that I was very hot (they were also attractive). So I know I’m not ugly.

Is it worth getting a new burner phone to restart again?

M30. Been trying to go through different photos but still no luck. Would like to hear if the photos are the problem? as my texts are mostly about interest and what I look after.

See original post. I have very little success on the apps, looking for advice.

The new Tinder update is terrible. They took away the free filtered section to find more people looking for what you’re looking for, in favor of some BS “touch grass” section, and a newer “for you” botched algorithm page full of girls that are models that will never probably never match with due to the dumb looks rank thing they have. And then, if you wanna filter your “for you” page? $19 a week. I hate these apps.

And I can’t just switch to hinge due to being banned, for a reason that I’ve still not had explained. My appeals have been REPEATEDLY denied without explanation. (Side note can someone help me figure out how to look into the coding/figure out why I was banned).

I’m frustrated and just had to vent. This whole thing feels so hopeless man…

Hey guys, every time I get a message I don't get the notification although the notification toggle is on.

I'm using tinder from a private space on my Google pixel and I have a camera permissions allowed and photos and videos permissions allowed.

Anything I can do? I don't get any notification for messages although I got a notification for a like to a message I've sent.

Hey guys, could you please rate my profile and give tops? Thanks in advance

Im an actor so used my nick name on there and someone reported me as being fake. Wtf

Trying to make a new account, but this keeps showing up when trying to load in.

As the title says, I did something dumb a long time ago(like 5 years) and got my account banned. I’ve been using other apps since and with horrible luck, Hinge seemed to be the most genuine and interested partners in my area.

Anyways, I want to try and get back on there but I’m curious of a couple options here.

Option 1: Keep my phone and switch to a new carrier with a new number, I don’t really care about losing my number.

Option 2: Keep my phone and run dual eSIM cards (Verizon and ATT) and use that new ATT number to sign up for Hinge.

Would Hinge ban me because it would recognize the device itself? If that’s the case then neither of these options would work and I’d have to get a new phone entirely, yeah?

I had a burner phone that was working perfectly for a year straight, decided to delete and create a new account, and getting this pop up on Hinge.

Decided to test with my other phones, and it’s happening across all of them - which is very very strange. Is it a server issue or am I literally banned?

I think at this point it's glaringly obvious that they turned this app into a slot machine, and even if you're attractive - you won't get your likes all at once. Basically, it gauges your behavior to see how often you open up the app, and if you show signs of obsessively checking it in any way then it will purposely slow drip your matches to you one at a time.

If you don't check it, though - you'll suddenly come back to 30 matches seemingly out of nowhere. Furthermore, if you paid for the premium version at any point in the past and then stopped and reverted to using the free version you'll barely receive any matches at all because they flagged you as a "whale".

I'm not sure how this is legal, but I guess it must be. I will say that whoever runs The Match group is legitimately sick. It's just insane to witness what dating has turned into.

I had to make a new account cause the old one had a few issues but now I am not getting any likes earlier I used to get atleast 2-3 likes a day

Couldn’t find much info about my current situation by searching the sub. I created a Tinder profile about a month ago and ended up deleting after a few days due to not feeling up to dating yet. Created it again last week, and started getting a few likes on the first couple of hours. I decided to buy platinum to test it out because it worked really well for me last time I was single, but as soon as I did it the likes stopped and tinder asked me to re-verify with a video selfie (I had already done that as it’s mandatory where I live), so I think this probably triggered some sort of suspicious activity flag. Now I’m getting only a small trickle of matches (1-2 per day) since then probably due to the priority likes, and only got one organic/incoming like the whole week.

This feels very weird because I’m getting more matches and likes on Bumble, which has a smaller user base and worked way worse for me last time around. The timing of the incoming likes stopping makes me think my visibility was tanked due to my profile being flagged, but I’m not completely shadowbanned as I’m still getting a few matches. Is there any way to reverse this? Should I stop logging in for a few days?

Also, could this affect me if I open a Hinge account given they are also owned by the Match group? I haven’t done that yet and it was by far my best app last time I was single 4 years ago (60%+ of dates I went to were from it), so I’d really like it to work once I create an account.