Seems an obvious answer doesn't it? But will people will lie to join. Say unvaxxed, say conservative, say marraige minded... say love animals...say good work ethic...say you are spiritual, and not a satanist.... then you find out it is a con job from a horny dude. So in that sense it is like any other online dating thing. I have given it a lot of thought. Considered starting in my own smallish town, get togethers for Conservative unjabbed single people, and knowing their online personas etc WILL be checked. People lie so much now that an actual background ck you pay for, is not a bad idea. The stakes are higher now than they have ever been, or at least, we know more now, about the stakes, don't we. "Strangers" are much to risky without researching them. Seemed so much easier once. Would you be willing to belong to a group of like minded single people if you were required to have a background check to prove you aren't lying about being single or a non-criminal? I'm sure the matchmaking services for billionaires do exactly that.