I had one instance that I had to flag to my manager because a user was sort of into zoophilia. I probably see at least 20 dick pics per day. Skip navigation! Story from Living. With Tinder boasting an estimated 50 million users, and Bumble close behind on 40 million, it's safe to say that dating apps are one of the most popular ways to find love or a lover in Dating app moderators typically work on a freelance basis from the comfort of their home. Here's what she said How long have you been working as a dating app moderator?
How did you get into this work? Through a friend of mine. How much time do you spend on it? I just stick to what I have to do because it gets a bit tedious and then you start making more mistakes as well, either being more lenient or actually being too harsh.
What are the best parts of your job? It is quite entertaining. What company do you work for? I work for one of the biggest dating networks. There are about 30 of us [moderators] looking after the French market and in France where I'm based now this app is quite famous for being a hook-up app, a bit like Tinder. It started off as a friendship thing and it evolved into a relationship app and now a lot of people use it to hook up.
What do you look at as a moderator? What are some of the most common things that are reported? Which I understand. It tends to be men against women, generally. Has anything surprised you in the way people communicate with each other? But I guess it is about expectations. At first I was like, why are people doing this? But now I am used to it. I try not to be too judgmental in my daily life anyway. I just try and see this as a fun thing, but we do stop some really weird behaviour. What kind of weird behaviour?
Have you ever had to get the police involved? So when you see that, straightaway escalate it and then [the managers] deal with it, we never know what they do with it. But at our training we have to touch upon stuff like this — what you have to do if someone says they have raped or sexually assaulted someone.
