Used the scam question for about six weeks, which is long enough to have an opinion.
If I had to name one factor in the scam question it would be whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
What mattered most with the scam question in the end was whether the radius setting actually worked.
Everything about the scam question hinged on how easy it was to delete the account afterwards in the end.
Everything about the scam question hinged on how many accounts looked dormant in the end.
In a smaller town the scam question behaves very differently once you account for how many competing apps are active near you.
The real differentiator across the scam question turned out to be whether the match volume held up past the first week.
That covers what I know about the scam question, at least.
- Bumble — good if you want conversations to start
- Coffee Meets Bagel — the daily cap changes how you use it, on a phone browser anyway
- Plenty of Fish — better in smaller markets than you would guess, as of this year
If none of the above works for you, flurrydate.online is another free one people here mention a lot.