New York women on mobile dating apps have complained about being bombarded with raunchy messages — 73 percent have received a sexually suggestive photo and 77 percent have been asked to send one.
A survey carried on 1,000 city singles also found 90 percent of women received inappropriate messages.
Launched on Monday, it uses an algorithm to boot users with bad grammar and dirty messages. It ranks profiles A+ to F based on popularity, message quality and response times.
"There needs to be a place to weed out the crazies, because I can't take it anymore," said Brooke Hamilton, 31, of Gramercy.
Hamilton recently exchanged digits with a Queens man on Tinder. But when she stopped texting him, he bombarded her with sleazy selfies — including photos of his private parts.
"It escalated from 'Why aren't you answering me?' to 'You're a disgusting person' and that he hopes bad things happen to me," she said.
Hamilton, who is testing out The Grade and has an A-, vows not to date men with grades below B-.
Like Tinder, Grade users swipe right to like a profile. If two users match, they can begin messaging. But daters with a D grade get a warning, and daters with an F are bounced.
"We want to create a high quality pool of daters," said app founder Cliff Lerner, CEO of Snap Interactive. "People think they can get away with a lot, with no accountability for their behaviour."
Lerner said The Grade was also created to root out sham profiles and prostitutes.
A test run with 500 Grade users shows Manhattan men ranked highest overall with an A-, compared to Brooklyn men, who got a C.
Brooklyn men wrote the longest messages overall and got an A- in message quality. But they also scored a C in popularity and B+ in responsiveness in the weighted grades.
Queens men had a D overall, and were the most inappropriate with their messages. Men in The Bronx got a B, but had the highest rate of responsiveness at an A-.
Manhattan women scored a B overall, but had the highest popularity citywide. They received responses 75 percent of the time while answering only 38 percent of the time.
- NY Post