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Comment by Ajay-p | Hacker News Reader

I use a dating app and I get a lot of people who want to sell me something, or invest in their business enterprise. It is very depressing. Supposedly if I pay and subscribe to the dating app it would be better, but I do not yet have enough faith to pay $25/wk (Tinder) to find out.. The apps have not seem to have done anything to stop scammers.

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If you pay to subscribe, that does nothing to help with scammers, I promise you.

What could be done to stop scammers? One thing I believe would help is for the app to accurate reflect the person's geographical location, and if that person's geographical location changes wildly, to flag them and tell the viewer. "This person's geographical location cannot be assured." If more was done to verify and police location, it might lead to at least encountering less scammers.

What do you think?

Yes and no.

There were years that I would travel constantly for work. All around Europe, and later in US, India and a bit of China. I never use dating apps (and have exited the social media many years ago), so tracking my location would have me banned in two weeks. It will have to be very strict, to e.g. move to 3 cities in 1 day, where the cities are over 200km apart or something. Kinda like trying to catch the Pokemon-Go Android modded apps 'walking' cheaters.

Great question. Something like you suggest could help. I definitely think it's possible to do better, because some of the apps have a lot fewer fake profiles/scammers compared to say, Tinder.

I think there isn't enough incentive for some of them (again, Tinder) to bother. If enough people stop using them, maybe they will incentivized to do better.

Jesus that's a lot of money, the only subscription I have costing that much is my car insurance

Hinge: $25/wk or $12/mo and discounts for longer subscription times.

Bumble: "Premium" upgrade "from $29.99"

Tinder: Different levels. Tinder+ starts at $12.99, Gold starts at $18.99

I presume each has a discount for length of subscription but still quite expensive given their history.

How is it $25 per week but $12 per month?

Strongly incentivizing monthly subscriptions versus weekly? I do not know but that is what it says. Is does not seem like low balling.. more like high balling? It does seem very strange.

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