Bumble bans users from showing guns in their photos

[Yaj Yak]

https://nypost.com/2018/03/06/bumble-bans-users-from-showing-guns-in-their-photos/

Forget about showing off your favorite firearm on your Bumble profile.

The popular dating app — famous for requiring women to initiate conversations instead of men — said it will no longer permit users to have guns in their photos.

“As mass shootings continue to devastate communities across the country, it’s time to state unequivocally that gun violence is not in line with our values, nor do these weapons belong on Bumble,” the company said in a blog post.

The dating app will direct its team of 5,000 moderators to review profiles and ensure there are no weapons present. Profiles found to violate the new rules will see the photos removed.

Members of the military or law enforcement will be allowed to have weapons in their photos, but only if they are in uniform.

The app will also not punish a user for having weapons in Instagram photos linked to their account, it said in the Monday blog post.

It’s not the first time that Bumble has banned certain images from its platform. Users are not allowed to post photos where they appear partially clothed, such as in bikinis or underwear.

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[Lord Tin Foilhat]

You cant show guns unless you follow these rules....oh and links to Instagram containing guns wont be effected...

Great job. Gun deaths and school shootings will definitely be lower now.

 

[boostedguy05]

had no idea what bumble was.


eh, has no impact on my life. do what you want bumble.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Oh look. More virtue signaling.

 

[Blood on Blood]

Sounds like a publicity stunt to expand company and product awareness / user base

 

[radioguy6]

no gun pics, but your inebriated drunk ass selfie with a tray of shots is allowed. Drunk drivers kill 10,000 people/year.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Make problems go away by completely denying they exist!


I’m not broke, I just don’t look at my bank or credit card statements!

 

[blakbearddelite]

I had to come in here to find out what in the fuck a 'bumble' was.

 

[sickmint79]

i use bumble, although nobody really does in the part of the world i'm in at the moment. they did have a splash screen that talked about that policy recently when i signed in. an annoyed groan was had.

 

[Yaj Yak]

I had to come in here to find out what in the fuck a 'bumble' was.

 

[blakbearddelite]

40 is the new 35.

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[guspech750]

Never heard of a bumble, don’t know WTF a bumble is, I don’t want to know what it is.

But I’m 100% positive it’s fucking gay.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Never heard of a bumble, don’t know WTF a bumble is, I don’t want to know what it is.

But I’m 100% positive it’s fucking gay.

well you're wrong.

Chappy is for gay men apparently.

Bumble is for straight.


:tmyk:


you're welcome.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Five


Thousand

Moderators.

......

 

[wombat]

I had to come in here to find out what in the fuck a 'bumble' was.

Same.

 

[nytebyte]

Five


Thousand

Moderators.

Sounds like a Bumble Fuck.

 

[boostedguy05]

well you're wrong.

Chappy is for gay men apparently.

Bumble is for straight.


:tmyk:


you're welcome.

for a maried man, you sure know a lot about gay and straight dating apps.

 

[Fish]

But if I cant show off these guns on Bumble, where would I go?

 

[sickmint79]

Five


Thousand

Moderators.

......

i played around with some machine learning image algos, pretty lighly, and i gotta say it wouldn't be that hard to make something that identified a gun in the picture, and even if someone was wearing a military or police uniform (or something close enough to it to sneak by)

iirc the update screen 'asked for help' so i assumed it was mostly self-reporting stuff so i don't even know where this 5000 would come from, which does sound silly.

fyi for you fellas not in the no, bumble is supposed to be female friendly - mighta been started by an ex-tinder corp female, i forgot. but the woman has to make the first message, if it doesn't happen within 24 hours, the convo is deleted.

what is funny is how you will see women complain that men on apps have meaningless first messages like 'hey' all the time, and when women do it, it's basically the exact same thing, at least in most of my experience.

because they don't get as inundated, and they appear to have the algo put more attractive people first, you can find some amazing girls on that app like doctor hotties and such. so it is an app worth having for all us single fellas

 

[Yaj Yak]

for a maried man, you sure know a lot about gay and straight dating apps.

no. i googled " bumble gay" and it was the first thing that came up.

 

[Yaj Yak]

i never had a tinder or a bumble... like 12 years ago a buddy and i had POF accounts for a day to try to see if we could get a date for that night.

he wound up with some like partial stripper/video game nerd chick and i did not.

i think i won that day.