Respectfully @Stephanie, worth paying is not that clear-cut. How it played out was less reliable than it looks from outside.
With worth paying I would start here: use a photo that shows your face clearly.
I wasted a month of steady use on worth paying because I'd assume every profile is current.
Where worth paying either works or falls apart is how long a profile stays visible without paying.
If anyone has tested worth paying properly, I want to know how the pool looks outside the big metros.
My working notes on worth paying, for what they are worth:
- The failure mode with worth paying is when you take silence personally
- On worth paying, what I ended up with was about what you would guess compared with the alternatives
- Give it a full week before judging it — it is the one habit that moved worth paying for me
- If worth paying is your only option, at least use a photo that shows your face clearly