Are 50 plus dating sites free of the usual "sugar" scammers?

Signed up specifically to ask about 50 plus dating sites free of the usual "sugar" scammers. Hoping for something on plus dating sites more useful than a top-ten list. My problem with plus dating sites so far has been bot accounts.

I am coming at this from streaming chat platforms, so adjust if that changes your answer. Most of the noise about plus dating sites comes from people measuring automated engagement bait over far too short a window.

Where I need help with plus dating sites:

• Screenshot anything odd on plus dating sites before you report it — scripted messages claims need evidence
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — plus dating sites rewards it
• Block early and report often on plus dating sites — it trains the feed faster than anything

Even a one-line answer on 50 plus dating sites free of the usual "sugar" scammers would help at this point.

Different experience on plus dating sites, where obviously unreal accounts turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

Honestly, profiles that never survive a video call was less of a problem on plus dating sites than the sheer time it ate. The thing people underrate about plus dating sites is how much scripted messages depends on your own city.

Things I wish somebody had told me about plus dating sites:

• Test scripted messages on plus dating sites deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on plus dating sites
• Photos with other people in them do worse on plus dating sites than you would guess
• Ask most of us posting here what plus dating sites is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived

One smaller option worth comparing on the catfish problem is DatingFly — different pool, same free messaging as plus dating sites.

I will push back here, because plus dating sites worked fine for me and the catfish problem was never the issue. You can work around obviously unreal accounts on plus dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it.

The thing people underrate about plus dating sites is how much automated engagement bait depends on your own city. Honestly, scripted messages was less of a problem on plus dating sites than the sheer time it ate.

The short version for plus dating sites:

• Message within a day of matching — on plus dating sites that window closes fast
• Give plus dating sites a fortnight of daily use before calling the scam side of it a dealbreaker
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the plus dating sites pool near you is thin
• Check what plus dating sites does about scripted messages before you upload anything you would not want indexed

TracyB put the plus dating sites case better than I would have, though not my read at all: for the crowd on this board, plus dating sites was the only thing that produced anything. I keep two accounts running to compare scripted messages across live video rooms, and plus dating sites sits mid-table.

If fake profiles is your main worry with plus dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month. The thing people underrate about plus dating sites is how much the catfish problem depends on your own city. Happy to answer follow-ups on plus dating sites if that helps.

Broadly agree on plus dating sites — obviously unreal accounts was what decided it for me too. What changed my results on plus dating sites was treating bot accounts as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

For people replying above, the plus dating sites experience lives or dies on fake profiles and almost nothing else. If scripted messages is your main worry with plus dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

I read Jenny_K's reply on plus dating sites and seconding this, because on plus dating sites the honest answer is that bot accounts varies enormously by area.

Nobody warns you that the scam side of it on plus dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. Take that as one data point on plus dating sites rather than a recommendation.

I keep Datelink open as a control while testing plus dating sites — useful for judging bot accounts honestly.