> This makes me believe the membership numbers are inflated with fake or marketing profiles to entice you to spend money.
About twenty years ago a friend of mine had a part time job that she was paid to respond to DMs on fake profiles on a dating site, basically "string them along and then slow ghost".
They even had a specific interface for her and other girls (hell, doesn't even need to be) to do this fake DM farming.
I'm not talking about users accusing the company of faking them from the outside. I'm saying if that string them along system was real at these modern companies someone inside would have exposed one by now. It would be more than just a leak, it would be illegal, deceptive business practices, false advertising, bait and switch. That's probably why they don't exist. No way all these apps with all these employees over all these years managed to keep everyone who worked on the shady illegal systems from spilling the beans. Uber god view was a huge deal. Tinder having systems and paying people to deceive people so they spend money would land C level execs on the bread line. Maybe it does exist, wouldn't surprise me, but I have doubts since we've never seen any evidence
About twenty years ago a friend of mine had a part time job that she was paid to respond to DMs on fake profiles on a dating site, basically "string them along and then slow ghost".
They even had a specific interface for her and other girls (hell, doesn't even need to be) to do this fake DM farming.