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Bumble bans ghosting — stood-up singles urged to report offenders for ‘abusive’ behavior
New York Post ^ | September 2, 2023 | Brooke Kato

Posted on 09/02/2023 12:55:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The trendy dating platform will now allow its millions of users to report each other for ghosting on an in-person date. The app claims to be the first to take a clear stance on the matter.

According to Engadget, the app’s updated guidelines are intended to “discourage no-show behavior through disallowing the act of not turning up to an in-person meet up despite clear plans agreed by both parties.”

Stood-up singletons will now be able to use the in-app report feature to rat out offenders. A moderator will then fact-check the claim before taking action. The behavior will also now appear on Bumble’s list of bullying and abusive conduct no-no’s, due to the “profound impact on a person’s mental health” ghosting could inflict. Offenders could find themselves banned from the platform.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: bumble; ghosting

1 posted on 09/02/2023 12:55:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Bumble...Ghosting...


2 posted on 09/02/2023 12:57:09 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: nickcarraway

“due to the “profound impact on a person’s mental health” ghosting could inflict”

Yeah—that is really bad when you are such a zero that people you don’t even know you ghost you...

Lol.


3 posted on 09/02/2023 12:58:15 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: nickcarraway

What’s to stop a woman from lying when a “high value man” refuses to date her ?


4 posted on 09/02/2023 12:58:39 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: nickcarraway

You don’t do a dating app, because you’re looking for marriage.


5 posted on 09/02/2023 12:59:49 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: libh8er

What may be happening is the guy shows up at the venue (or vice versa) and sees their “date” for the first time at a distance and realizes there was some false advertising...

and ghosts them.


6 posted on 09/02/2023 1:01:48 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: cgbg

I Believe We Have A Winner!!!


7 posted on 09/02/2023 1:10:52 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: nickcarraway

Stood up? Be thankful. A lot of future trouble was just avoided simply by missing a first date. Drop them as faster than they dropped you.


8 posted on 09/02/2023 1:12:41 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: cgbg

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 (𝘰𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 “𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦” 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨...

𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

I think you may be on to something with that. Bumble is the app where women are supposed to make first contact, and I’m going to take a wild guess that because this is/was happening to women is the very reason why this happened. There’s a reason why I walked away from dating apps, it was the shit treatment from women on these apps. In this case, I don’t feel the least bit sorry for the women that this happened to because I know from experience with these apps the kind of crap that many of them pull with men.


9 posted on 09/02/2023 1:15:12 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: libh8er

Women are getting their comeuppance. Now they don’t like it.

Boo effing hoo.


10 posted on 09/02/2023 1:48:07 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox

Hope they enjoy their cats and boxed wine.


11 posted on 09/02/2023 1:51:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Antihero101607

Men have had the bad end of this process forever. They return the favor and the girls run to mommy.


12 posted on 09/02/2023 1:59:59 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: cgbg

They are singing, I’m going to photoshop those pounds all away.


13 posted on 09/02/2023 2:44:37 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: nickcarraway

Women don’t mind ghosting men, they do it all the time. They cannot handle being ghosted though.


14 posted on 09/02/2023 2:50:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway
Go to church, meet mates in a safe, loving environment, share your faith and get to know someone over a cookie and a cup of coffee instead of shots of tequila and maybe getting rufied.

There are good solutions to all of life’s problems people just won’t see them and wonder why their lives suck.
15 posted on 09/02/2023 2:53:12 PM PDT by The Louiswu (PEDO JOE MUST GO!!!)
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