I think this has mostly always been the case certainly in the past 10 years just the specifics (smarter bots, more AI photos, etc.) slips about and new scams ebb and flow. Annoying yeah but in the grand scheme of things really doesn't matter. If you sit down with nothing else to do yes it's definitely hours of work. But if you seek while watching TV and eating dinner, or on the subway, or even at red lights (these are how I seek) it all comes at no cost and you should be able to go through hundreds of profiles at a time over the span of watching an hour long show w/e spending literally only a few seconds per woman. Ditto for the high pricers they want 1k just move on in seconds. You review 1000 profiles (very fast to do) and message 100 (reasonably fast to do) bing bang boom and your goal is not to set up a system that needs a secretary or that you score and weigh but to efficiently end up with 10 high quality leads. Then you get picky.
@h50, I might have not been as clear. SA today looks nothing like 5 to 10 years ago bc SA is using fake bots, AI, fake profiles to boost its joins/re-joins. it’s gotten way out of control or acceptable levels. Now, it‘s only a perception of high number girls on the site.
back then, there were so many real girls on the site and it was piece of cake to talk to, and setup a meet. it was barely any fake profiles so you had nothing to worry about. Like fishing in a fishbowl.
I re-joined about 2 years ago and was surprised how bad it got. It’s a mission just to decipher between the real and fake profiles, so you can focus on real ones. Next, you gotta figure out which are pros and delusional ones wanting $1-2k per meet, and get those out of the way.
Yes, time and effort is required on SA for end result - to message, find good picks and convert into dates, no one questions this. To say it has always been the case, I respectfully disagree. I see other fellow members share the same view, the ones which re-join and can compare to before, and as you can see, number of reports has decreased with time bc of the same reasons.