Does Commenting on Likes Help You Get Hinge's Signals Badge?

Yes. Adding a comment when you send a like is one of the five behaviors Hinge counts toward Signals. It sits next to looking before liking, which Hinge describes as reading someone's prompts and scrolling past their first photo before you like them. You need at least three of the five, plus Hinge's baseline requirements, before the badge can appear.

Signals is the badge Hinge shows next to the names of daters whose recent activity reflects thoughtful participation. Hinge judges that by five behaviors, and a comment on a like is one of them.

The comment is the easiest of the five to control. You do not need her to reply, and you do not need a date on the calendar. You just need to stop sending bare likes and attach a line to them. Every like you send is a chance to do it.

The two habits Hinge names side by side feed each other. Looking before liking means reading her prompts and scrolling past her first photo. Commenting means saying something about what you found.

You cannot do the second one well without the first. A man who taps a like on her first picture has nothing to say except that she looks nice, and she has read that many times. A man who scrolled to her fourth photo and read all three prompts has half a dozen things to react to.

So in practice these are one habit. Read the whole page, then write about the most specific thing on it. Do that consistently and two of your three required behaviors are covered.

The remaining three are reviewing the likes you receive, messaging your matches, and confirming your dates through Hinge. Reviewing just means accepting or skipping incoming likes instead of letting them pile up. Add any one of those three to your comments and your careful reading, and you are at three.

The baseline is separate, and a hundred good comments will not replace it. Hinge wants a complete page with clear photos and thoughtful prompt answers, an account in good standing, and Selfie Verification. The badge also never appears during your first week on the app, although your activity counts from day one.

The badge is a small line of text next to your name. The comment is what she actually reads when your like arrives.

Hinge's help pages say comments raise the odds that a like gets answered. That is the real reason to write one. A bare like asks her to decide on your photos alone. A like with a good line gives her something to answer, which is the easiest way into a conversation there is.

Think of the badge as a side effect. If you comment on every like because it gets you more replies, you will qualify for the badge without trying.

a dating coach's approach to first messages is to notice one thing on her page and build a short line around it. He also insists it should not take long. Aim to have it written and sent within a minute, rather than burning twenty minutes on a woman whose account might not even be active.

Good comments tend to do one of three things. They tease her lightly about something she wrote. They guess, playfully, at something about her life based on one of her pictures. Or they argue against an opinion she holds.

"Pineapple on pizza as your hill to die on is brave, and I respect it, but it's wrong" works because she can argue back. "You seem like someone who has a very strong opinion about airport arrival times" works because she will want to tell you whether you guessed right.

If a tease could read as a dig in text, add a winky face or a smiley. coach recommends exactly that, because the emoji tells her you are playing.

A few kinds of comment are almost as bad as none.

The compliment on her looks is the big one. It proves you saw her first photo and nothing else. The job interview question, like "What do you do for fun?", gives her homework instead of a reason to reply. The paragraph tells her you are far more invested than she is, before she has said a word.

The last one is the copied comment. Pasting the same clever line on every like technically counts as commenting. It also reads like a template to anyone who spots it, and it throws away the only advantage a comment gives you, which is proof that you read her page.

Write one real line per like. The badge takes care of itself, and so do a lot more of your conversations.