The entire Dating DNA site is “G Rated.” This means any of the public areas must not contain anything offensive to a “general audience.” (No nude or suggestive photos, no profanity or adult language in the forums and chat rooms, etc.) For example, our Forums and Chat Rooms have a filter to screen out potentially offensive, non-G rated language. Profiles with non-G rated photos are quickly deleted, and so on.
However, even though the site is G-rated, you must also be an adult (18 years or older) to have a Dating DNA account. So, we often get asked the question, “If only adults are on this site, why does it need to be G rated? We’re all adults here, why make us hold back and keep things G?” We get asked this question enough, I thought it time to address it in our blog.
First, let me address why Dating DNA only allows adults, 18 and older to join:
In many states, the “age of consent” is 18. Because we are a dating site with the intention of helping people meet for dating and relationships, we don’t think it’s appropriate to mix minors and adults together. We also don’t think it’s proper for us to be creating a dating environment for a minor without their parent’s consent and involvement. For these reasons, to obtain a Dating DNA account, you must acknowledge that you are at least 18. (If you find minors on the site, please report them so their account can be closed. You can learn about Dating DNA’s community monitoring and reporting here.)
Next, let me address why Dating DNA is 100% G-rated:
To do this, let’s look at a hypothetical situation. Suppose a creepy old pervert peeks his head into the doorway of two clubs that are right next to each other. The first club is well lit, full of people nicely dressed, all of which are smiling, laughing, and discussing sports, music, politics, and the news of the day. The second club is dimly lit and filled with people scantly dressed, drunk, telling obscene jokes, and swearing profusely. Which of these two clubs do you think this pervert will enter and spend the evening?
The same is true of websites. If a website is full of nude photos, swearing, and obscene language, it will attract the perverts and repel those sincerely looking for someone compatible to date. If you don’t believe me, just check this out: Craigslist NYC Personals – Men Seeking Women.
We created Dating DNA to help sincere singles find someone compatible for dating. Even though we have chat rooms, games, and other fun and interesting things to do on the site, the main goal for our site is always to find compatible dating opportunity for sincere singles.
Because Dating DNA is a free service (no fees, no credit card needed, etc.), it’s very easy for anyone to get an account. This means someone could join, go into the chat rooms, and start being offensive to everyone without fear of their identity being discovered or losing any money. This is why most “free” dating sites don’t work. They quickly become over run with the lowest common denominator of perverts, fakes, spammers, etc.
We knew when we set out to create a free service with Dating DNA, this would be our biggest challenge: How do you have a free dating site, yet keep out the pervs, spammers, and fakes? We made solving this dilemma our number one priority. You can read the very first blog I ever penned for Dating DNA here: Zero Tolerance for Perverts, Fibbers, Fakes, Spammers, and Scammers. We then put into place our community monitoring, which you can read about in my blog here: Community Monitoring: The Dating DNA Community Decides Who to Reject.
As with my example of the two clubs earlier, by keeping Dating DNA 100% G-Rated, we are more likely to attract the sincere singles and repel the perverts. By enforcing our G-rated community standards, our user base becomes larger and larger with these sincere singles, while the number of perverts, fakes, gamers, etc. gets smaller and smaller. There are thousands of places on the Internet for the sexually-oriented crowd to chat and meet, we want Dating DNA to be one of those rare places where sincere singles can make compatibility the focus, not just sex.
Kevin Carmony
Founder, Dating DNA
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Since ur telling everyone how they got deleted please tell me because I honestly don’t get it… I’m not being funny or pretending I don’t know I’m so very serious please tell me
Yani,
You had a photo of you in bed with a topless woman. Not exactly “G” rated.
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Thanks for the article. When will the next update happen? Seems to be a while?
Mark,
We’re working on lots of changes. We hope to have our next update out in February.
I was banned but I never said anything wrong or anything the terms and conditions said not to do
Amy,
You were banned for uploading a fake photo. (Actress from Bay Watch.)
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Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to create this app. Only joined a couple of hours ago and have already met lots of genuine people. I for one appreciate all the efforts to ensure that this doesn’t become yet another sleazy dating site for people who are after only one thing!
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the great work. I wish I knew earlier about your site. I found it as an application on iPhone and I downloaded it because I was curious to see what was all about.
Last year I decided to give online dating a chance and the only thing I got back was a very bitter taste. I had a nice share of fake photos, fake profiles, weird people etc. contacting me – if there was a true profile through them then it was very hard to find it. I will not name the sites but all claim to be great and reliable dating sites (you are talking in detail here about one of them). Some have also ID verification but they also allow free profiles without this procedure to contact you. And usually those are the ones contacting you all the time.
Anyway I wish I didn’t need to go through all that and lose so much time and effort to get back only the bad stuff I got.
For anyone that considers now to give online dating a chance – one advice that can be found everywhere on this site, and I learn in the hard way – keep always an eye open for any inconsistency in a profile. If you find even a tiny one there is a chance that that profile is fake.
Please, please continue the wonderful work you are doing. Hopefully I will have – at last – a real chance to meet that special someone I am looking for. And hopefully more Canadians will join the site as almost everyone I get matched with, is from US and looking mostly for people closer to them.
Until now you are the only TRUE and REAL dating site I ever found.
I agree. This adds credibility to the site as well. Keep members that acts professionally and you will likely get successful candidates.
Hey I just made my acount and it says that I’m banned from it. I did not do anything wrong?
Nadia,
You joined when you were 17 which added you to the banned list. By law, minors are not allowed on the site. If you try to sneak by when you’re a minor, even once you become 18, you’re on the banned list for having been dishonest to the community.
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