Who Can Use Hinge Prompt Feedback and in Which Languages?

Hinge says Prompt Feedback is offered to users with complete profiles. Its profile guide lists the feature in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. So if your profile is finished and you write in one of those languages, you are the person the feature is built for.

The condition Hinge's help page gives is a complete profile. In other words, the feature is tied to whether your page is finished.

That makes sense for a tool that comments on your written answers. It has little to say about a page that is half built, and a man with empty slots has a bigger problem than the wording of any one answer.

Hinge's profile guide names these: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish.

If you write your answers in one of those, the feature covers you. If you write in another language, the guide does not list the feature for it, and you should plan on getting feedback some other way.

This matters more than it sounds for men in bilingual cities. If you are in Montreal, Brussels or Barcelona, the language you choose for your answers is already a decision about who you are writing for. Choose it on purpose, based on the women you actually want to reach, not on which language a rating tool reads.

Start with the condition Hinge gives. Go through your page slot by slot and look for anything left empty, skipped or thin. A missing photo or an unanswered prompt is the obvious thing to fix first.

Then check your language. If your answers are written in something outside the list, the feature is not listed for it.

Either way, do not wait on the tool. Whether or not a rating ever appears, the answers on your page are doing their job or failing at it every day women see you.

A tool like this can spot an answer that says very little. A one-word reply, a cliché, a list of hobbies with nothing specific in it: those are easy for software to flag and easy for a woman to skip.

What it cannot do is know your life. It can tell you an answer is thin. It cannot tell you which true story belongs there instead, or whether your dry joke will land with the kind of woman you are hoping to meet. Only you know those things.

It also cannot see how your answers sit beside your photos. Picture a page where the photos show a quiet man at home and the answers describe a wild social life. It reads like two different people, and no rating on a single answer will catch that.

So treat the rating as a first read, not a verdict. The score that counts is whether women like your answers and write to you about them.

a dating coach points out that Hinge asks you to present yourself through prompts rather than one block of text about yourself. A man can easily do better on Hinge than on other apps for exactly that reason. Answering a question comes easier to him than describing himself. Use that.

Write each answer as the start of a conversation. A small story beats a claim. "I love to travel" gives her nothing. "Missed my train in Lyon and ended up at the best dinner of the trip" gives her a city, a mishap and an obvious question to ask.

Be a little polarizing. My experience is that a page some women love and some dislike does better with the women most men want than a page everyone finds pleasant and forgets. A real opinion does that. A safe list of adjectives does not.

And write for someone in particular. Think like a marketer: who is the woman you want to reach, and what would make her stop? An answer about the sourdough you keep failing to get right tells a woman who loves food more than a line saying you like cooking.

Whatever the tool says, hand your phone to a friend of a friend, someone who has not heard your stories. Let them read your answers and describe the evening they picture with you.

If the picture sounds like you, your answers are telling the truth. If they are way off, something on your page is describing a man you are not. That gap is exactly what a rating tool cannot see, and it is what a woman will notice on the first date.