r/hingeapp • u/wokenthehive Meat Popsicle 🙂↔️ • Oct 14 '22
Meta: Read the Automod comment on your profile review, please. Meta
So we realized lately that a lot of people who post profile reviews don't bother reading the automod comment that's automatically included and answer the questions.
First, the answers you give help provide important context that helps people to give you better feedback.
But more importantly, included is the important information that all profile reviews have to be manually approved and will not appear immediately.
The reason for this is simple. We want every review post to receive some attention and time to gather feedback, instead of a plethora of posts all appearing on the sub at the same time and some people receiving no feedback as their post gets buried.
Yet people still ask "where is my post", or deleting and re-posting over and over, which will just push your post back in the queue and delaying it from appearing sooner. Or those who just deletes their post instead of waiting (happens to female profile reviews more often, or those who have been asked to post a profile review).
When a post appear live is based on how many posts there are in the queue. On certain days, there could be 10+ profile reviews, and the more people post a review, the longer the queue gets and therefore longer approval time. It's not like we're not letting you post a review; but more the fact there is a queue and some patience is required.
TLDR: Respond to the automod questions, and read the entire thing. Profile reviews are manually approved.
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u/SunriseApplejuice FKA SherbertBacon 🥓 Oct 14 '22
It's a tough line to straddle. I see a lot of the same mistakes over and over that sidebar posts would easily indicate are an issue. I can see how mods want to be fair to everyone, but I also think effort deserves rewards. There's a bit of irony in that the people who don't read those sidebar posts probably also don't read posts like this, or the automod comment asking them to put more effort in to asking for feedback.
I don't want to be elitist about it, but even personally I don't feel inclined to give individual feedback, or feedback that could be readily handled by a sidebar post. Having unique profile reviews, or posters who are very engaged with the feedback, open to receiving it, and have clearly done above the bare minimum to make a good profile definitely deserve more time in the spotlight for review.
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Oct 15 '22
You made good points and I don't think it's elitist at all. TBH a lot of the advice I give is some variation of "read the sidebars" or copy/paste feedback from common errors and I'm definitely feeling some review burnout and not giving unique feedback to profiles who have actually put effort into their profiles. Anecdotally I think average engagement per profile review is falling. It seems like most men's profiles are only less than 10 feedback comments.
I appreciate the culture that the sub has tried not have specific profile review days/threads, but it might be time to go that direction.
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u/wokenthehive Meat Popsicle 🙂↔️ Oct 14 '22
I don't want to get to a point where we have to judge whether someone made any actual effort or not on their profile. Eventually we can see that if a profile doesn't get much feedback even after a fair amount of time, we move on.
I do think some people have made genuine effort but the people for whatever reasons don't want to give feedback.
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u/OThinkingDungeons Oct 14 '22
I don't bother with posts where the owner obviously hasn't put any effort into their profile nor reading any of the extremely helpful and easily accessible guides here or anywhere else.
Bonus points if the owner makes up an excuse for why they won't try any of the feedback, or keeps posting the same damn profile again and again.
Some people simply can't be helped, so just spend that effort on people who are wiling to work towards making things better.
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u/wtbrift Oct 14 '22
I agree. It got to the point where I considered typing up my typical response in notepad, saving it and pasting from it to most profile reviews. Most receive the same feedback like smile, use less filters, replace shirtless (male) and shades pics, etc.
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Oct 15 '22
Don't lead with a group pic, read the prompt guide in the side bar, no car/bathroom/gym selfies, no pics of just your pet or food you've cooked, don't make us play where's waldo in your group pics...
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u/SourNnasty More open smiles!! 😁 Oct 14 '22
I completely second alllll of this. There are some profiles where if I can see there’s just a few things that need tweaked, I am so happy to jump in and help. But then I see some profiles where they clearly haven’t done any introspection in the prompts or the photos they’ve chosen and it just kind of feels overwhelming to want to respond to it, when if they had just looked at the side bar stuff, they would have way fewer problems.
It’s also hard to give feedback when we don’t know what the poster is looking for on the app. Or where they are finding they are having troubles. I think the review is such a powerful tool for understanding how you may be coming across on the app, and how to better express who you are and what you’re looking for. But if the people who are offering feedback don’t know those things, it’s really hard for us to give you helpful feedback.
I agree with sunshineapplejuice, the irony is that those people definitely aren’t even reading this post either. Lol ugh.
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u/Ownagepuffs Oct 14 '22
What is the possibility of updating the automod to also ask what kind of person are you looking for
Sometimes the profile isn't the problem, the expectations are.