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Bumble temporarily removes political affiliation filter citing "misuse"
- Thread starter Magneton
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what?? uh this is important, probably lots of users that don't want to get matched up with a trumper
I read a story that people were setting their profiles to R to find maga bros who were at the capitol and report them to the FBI.
There was a trending post about someone using the Conservative filter in DC to collect evidence for the FBI. I wonder if that's why.
Yeah, as soon as I saw this I figured it was in response to that viral Tweet, whether said tweet was real or not.
More likely conservatives were trolling liberals to call them sex trafficking satan worshippers, because they are extra amped up right now.
That makes more sense than my theory.
That makes more sense than my theory.
Yeah, I saw that flying around on twitter too.
You all are the real patriots.
Women were using it to out Capitol rioters.
They would change their affiliation to Conservative and the idiots they matched with would brag about it with evidence.
I would like for them to expand on the options when it returns. You can't include every political viewpoint, but I'd like some general "leftist" category as opposed to just "liberal."
Small nitpick.
Edit - To be clear, I haven't been on the platform since spring of last year. Perhaps it's been updated since then but I'm not sure.
Small nitpick.
Edit - To be clear, I haven't been on the platform since spring of last year. Perhaps it's been updated since then but I'm not sure.
damn, this is badass. these thirsty dudes are dumb as hell
What do you mean? That one Trumper said his Bumble profile was blowing up after he posted pictures of himself at the Capitol, which is pretty doubtful.
Because they are afraid they will lose the rioters as audience.
Your users (reportedly) getting mass arrested is generally bad for business, yeah, though knowing the history of bumble I don't know why they would care in this particular case.
The apps moderation team has always been wonky.
I've had a few friends get banned permanently for seemingly no reason (one for example was because the guy didn't respond to a girl who extended their match on him, she was bragging about this to someone else later. She reported him for making her feel uncomfortable). And no, they can't ever make a new profile again either lol.
I've had a few friends get banned permanently for seemingly no reason (one for example was because the guy didn't respond to a girl who extended their match on him, she was bragging about this to someone else later. She reported him for making her feel uncomfortable). And no, they can't ever make a new profile again either lol.
That doesn't sound like misuse to me. That sounds like "enhanced filtering."
Referring to a bumble bee. It's a dating app where the women make the first move.
When I was still single gotta say the political affiliation was a life saver. Did not want to be hooking up with conservative women lol
At least in my country, it's 'left,' 'center,' or 'right.'
Absolutely brain dead decision. They did this because girls were baiting conservative guys into sharing their capitol videos and then sending them to the FBI.
Imagine protecting rightwing terrorists on your feminist dating app.
This puts women in danger, too.
Imagine protecting rightwing terrorists on your feminist dating app.
This puts women in danger, too.
The CEO of bumble was sexually harassed/bullied out of working at tinder, so she started her own competing app with a slightly less shitty UI, less bots, and a "hook" (women have to message first).
I wondered why Tomi Lahren had shown up on my Bumble feed lol. I definitely make sure to swipe left/completely filter out anyone even close to Conservative so I was fairly confused. This is a pretty terrible decision from them.
Last I checked it was still "Liberal/Moderate/Conservative/Apolitical" but obviously not at the moment anymore.
Last I checked it was still "Liberal/Moderate/Conservative/Apolitical" but obviously not at the moment anymore.
Correct, she was Tinder's former vice president of marketing.
people on twitter were saying they were doing that
the distinction is important
Lol. "Hey you know what really turns me on? Insurrection. You wouldn't happen to have any pics would you?"
If it's because of this, Bumble can get fucked with this "misuse" bullshit. Social media has been used since forever to catch perpetrators and nobody has ever called it fucking "misuse".