How do you find legitimate dating sites that don't use bot profiles?

Genuine question about how to find legitimate dating sites that don't use bot profiles — I do not have a strong view yet and I want one. The bit nobody covers on legitimate dating sites is scripted messages.

I have tried a few options across the free-tier sites already and none of them stuck. For people who have actually tried it, the legitimate dating sites experience lives or dies on the scam side of it and almost nothing else.

The open questions I have on legitimate dating sites:

• Treat your first legitimate dating sites profile as a draft, because scripted messages punishes lazy ones
• Check what legitimate dating sites does about automated engagement bait before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Give legitimate dating sites a fortnight of daily use before calling fake profiles a dealbreaker

Tell me what actually happened with how to find legitimate dating sites that don't use bot profiles rather than what should happen.

Agreed, although with legitimate dating sites I would frame automated engagement bait as a symptom rather than the cause. You can work around obviously unreal accounts on legitimate dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it. There is no version of legitimate dating sites where the scam side of it sorts itself out without you doing something.

There is no version of legitimate dating sites where scripted messages sorts itself out without you doing something. The thing people underrate about legitimate dating sites is how much profiles that never survive a video call depends on your own city. Your legitimate dating sites results will vary by city more than by platform.

Anyone comparing legitimate dating sites on fake profiles should probably add DatingFly to the list.

Agreed, although with legitimate dating sites I would frame scripted messages as a symptom rather than the cause. There is no version of legitimate dating sites where profiles that never survive a video call sorts itself out without you doing something. What changed my results on legitimate dating sites was treating automated engagement bait as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

The pattern I see with legitimate dating sites is that obviously unreal accounts is fine early and degrades as you go. Nobody warns you that the scam side of it on legitimate dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. Most of the noise about legitimate dating sites comes from people measuring obviously unreal accounts over far too short a window. What changed my results on legitimate dating sites was treating bot accounts as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Owen Sterling and I have clearly used legitimate dating sites differently, because not my read at all: for the members answering here, legitimate dating sites was the only thing that produced anything. Most of the noise about legitimate dating sites comes from people measuring profiles that never survive a video call over far too short a window.

Nobody warns you that profiles that never survive a video call on legitimate dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. I judge legitimate dating sites by one thing now: whether profiles that never survive a video call improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Either way, automated engagement bait is the thing I would test first on legitimate dating sites.

How I would approach legitimate dating sites from scratch:

• Screenshot anything odd on legitimate dating sites before you report it — the scam side of it claims need evidence
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — legitimate dating sites rewards it
• Block early and report often on legitimate dating sites — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Photos with other people in them do worse on legitimate dating sites than you would guess
• Test the catfish problem on legitimate dating sites deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves

Seconding this, because on legitimate dating sites the honest answer is that obviously unreal accounts varies enormously by area. Nobody warns you that fake profiles on legitimate dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours. If scripted messages is your main worry with legitimate dating sites, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Honestly, fake profiles was less of a problem on legitimate dating sites than the sheer time it ate. What changed my results on legitimate dating sites was treating the catfish problem as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. I keep two accounts running to compare the scam side of it across the free-tier sites, and legitimate dating sites sits mid-table.

CarterV is right about one part of legitimate dating sites: that feels too harsh on legitimate dating sites, given scripted messages is a problem across the free-tier sites rather than specific to it.

The thing people underrate about legitimate dating sites is how much bot accounts depends on your own city. There is no version of legitimate dating sites where automated engagement bait sorts itself out without you doing something.

Somebody in another legitimate dating sites thread pointed me at Datewander and it held up better than expected on the catfish problem.

Not my read at all: for most of us posting here, legitimate dating sites was the only thing that produced anything.

Honestly, bot accounts was less of a problem on legitimate dating sites than the sheer time it ate. You can work around profiles that never survive a video call on legitimate dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Alex Torres is right about one part of legitimate dating sites: different experience on legitimate dating sites, where profiles that never survive a video call turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. What changed my results on legitimate dating sites was treating fake profiles as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

The thing people underrate about legitimate dating sites is how much the scam side of it depends on your own city. I judge legitimate dating sites by one thing now: whether obviously unreal accounts improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Whatever you pick, judge legitimate dating sites on fake profiles after a month rather than after a weekend.

A smaller name people rarely mention in legitimate dating sites threads is Ezhookups.