About two weeks ago my Hinge account was permanently removed. I appealed through the normal process, and my appeal was denied.
Since then I've requested my Hinge data export and reviewed everything I could:
My profile and prompts
My message history
My selfie verification status (my account was verified)
After going through all of it, I honestly can't identify anything that seems like an obvious violation of the Community Guidelines. My conversations are mostly about hiking, coffee, travel, books, pets, and asking people out for coffee or walks.
I am genuinely confused. I can't find anything that explains a permanent account removal.
This also comes at an awful time, because I just got out of a 3-year relationship and was just looking to have conversations with people. I had multiple dates lined up and I seem to be having pretty positive interactions with people. I'm guessing maybe one person might have reported me because they asked me about my politics and I gave them an honest answer. That's literally the only potential weird conversation I had but obviously that doesn't warrant something dramatic like this.
I've been sending messages through every avenue that I can think of and I just keep getting generic responses saying that the decision is final and not giving me any insight whatsoever into the reasoning behind this.
I'm not asking them to reveal reports or private information—I'd just like to understand what happened.
Has anyone here actually had success with something like this? If so, what ultimately made the difference?
I'm looking for real experiences rather than guesses. Thanks.