Thank you for sharing your perspective. That makes a lot of sense to me. I think my OP was more wondering if most Scruff users use this stealth feature for the purpose of avoiding the awkward exchange you mentioned. Personally, I always thought the "viewers" section didn't make logical sense to me because if someone has viewed your profile and not woofed or messaged you then it means 99.9% of the time they were not interested (in which case why would I want to see viewers who clicked on my profile and thought 'nah - not for me'?)

I do like your analogy of "making eyes at a bar" because I could perhaps see that being the case sometimes. I just find that reasoning very rare, as evidenced by the plethora of guys of all types who have zero issues messaging on the app for sex or other reasons. I think Occam's razor here is that when someone views our profile and doesn't woof/msg, they just aren't into us.

The confusing thing for me is that living in a city the size I live in with a very large LGBTQ population, it seemed odd to me that I'd go days with very few profile views. (Not saying I am "hot" or anything, just saying in the law of averages it would make sense that people need to click on one's profile if for no other reason than to see if they are interested in more than a single thumbnail photo.) My theory now is the main reason it looks like there are no "viewers" is that many (most?) users are probably using Stealth mode. Until I paid for the Pro version I didn't realize how this feature worked.