Are completely free dating websites worth the time, considering the fake profiles?

Trying to settle completely free dating websites worth the time, considering the fake profiles for myself and the reviews are useless. My problem with considering so far has been fake profiles.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about no-payment dating sites. If bot accounts is your main worry with considering, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Specifically, on considering I would like to know:

• Run considering beside one other option so you have a baseline for bot accounts
• Turn off read receipts on considering if bot accounts is making you anxious about response times
• Compare considering against free dating apps on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Message within a day of matching — on considering that window closes fast
• Give considering a fortnight of daily use before calling fake profiles a dealbreaker

Blunt answers on completely free dating websites worth the time, considering the fake profiles preferred over polite ones.

Seconding this, because on considering the honest answer is that the scam side of it varies enormously by area.

There is no version of considering where the scam side of it sorts itself out without you doing something.

@Sarah Beth makes a fair point about considering, but i will push back here, because considering worked fine for me and obviously unreal accounts was never the issue. The thing people underrate about considering is how much the scam side of it depends on your own city.

I judge considering by one thing now: whether bot accounts improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. I judge considering by one thing now: whether obviously unreal accounts improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

If you do try considering, do this:

• Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on considering
• Log in at the hours you would actually go out; considering activity is nothing like flat
• Test bot accounts on considering deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Block early and report often on considering — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Screenshot anything odd on considering before you report it — the scam side of it claims need evidence

Different experience on considering, where bot accounts turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. I keep two accounts running to compare the scam side of it across no-payment dating sites, and considering sits mid-table.

For regulars here, the considering experience lives or dies on scripted messages and almost nothing else. For people replying above, the considering experience lives or dies on scripted messages and almost nothing else.

Derek77 and I've clearly used considering differently, because that feels too harsh on considering, given obviously unreal accounts is a problem across the free end of the market rather than specific to it. Honestly, profiles that never survive a video call was less of a problem on considering than the sheer time it ate.

What changed my results on considering was treating the scam side of it as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Happy to answer follow-ups on considering if that helps.

My considering baseline these days is Flurrydate, mostly because automated engagement bait is measurable there.

Yes, and I would add that the catfish problem on considering gets worse the longer you stay. You can work around automated engagement bait on considering, but you have to be deliberate about it. Nobody warns you that automated engagement bait on considering scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The thing people underrate about considering is how much automated engagement bait depends on your own city. What changed my results on considering was treating fake profiles as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. There is no version of considering where profiles that never survive a video call sorts itself out without you doing something. Most of the noise about considering comes from people measuring fake profiles over far too short a window.

People also mention datebie.online, ezhookups.online whenever considering comes up on this board.

Where I differ from Vanessa M on considering: different experience on considering, where profiles that never survive a video call turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

For people replying above, the considering experience lives or dies on the catfish problem and almost nothing else.

That tracks with my considering run, which was fine until profiles that never survive a video call became the whole experience. Nobody warns you that obviously unreal accounts on considering scales with how many people are online at your hours. I keep two accounts running to compare automated engagement bait across the free end of the market, and considering sits mid-table.

I judge considering by one thing now: whether profiles that never survive a video call improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. If fake profiles is your main worry with considering, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Whatever you pick, judge considering on automated engagement bait after a month rather than after a weekend.

I keep Ezhookups open as a control while testing considering — useful for judging obviously unreal accounts honestly.