Is the sweetmeet dating app legitimate, or just full of fake ads?

Genuine question about the sweetmeet dating app legitimate, or just full of fake ads — I do not have a strong view yet and I want one. What I care about with sweetmeet is obviously unreal accounts more than anything else.

I have tried a few options across free platforms already and none of them stuck. You can work around bot accounts on sweetmeet, but you have to be deliberate about it.

If you have used sweetmeet, these are the bits I care about:

• Message within a day of matching — on sweetmeet that window closes fast
• Give sweetmeet a fortnight of daily use before calling fake profiles a dealbreaker
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the sweetmeet pool near you is thin
• Check what sweetmeet does about obviously unreal accounts before you upload anything you would not want indexed
• Do not move off sweetmeet into private messaging until the scam side of it looks handled

Anyone with a recent the sweetmeet dating app legitimate, or just full of fake ads story, please jump in.

LaurenP is right about one part of sweetmeet: that feels too harsh on sweetmeet, given the catfish problem is a problem across free dating apps rather than specific to it. There is no version of sweetmeet where profiles that never survive a video call sorts itself out without you doing something.

What changed my results on sweetmeet was treating the scam side of it as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. For people replying above, the sweetmeet experience lives or dies on profiles that never survive a video call and almost nothing else.

If you do try sweetmeet, do this:

• Block early and report often on sweetmeet — it trains the feed faster than anything
• Screenshot anything odd on sweetmeet before you report it — bot accounts claims need evidence
• Ask people who have actually tried it what sweetmeet is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived

Building on what Patrick Reyes said about sweetmeet, same experience on sweetmeet: I gave it six weeks before the scam side of it got tiresome.

If profiles that never survive a video call is your main worry with sweetmeet, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Happy to answer follow-ups on sweetmeet if that helps.

I will push back here, because sweetmeet worked fine for me and the scam side of it was never the issue.

The pattern I see with sweetmeet is that automated engagement bait is fine early and degrades as you go. Most of the noise about sweetmeet comes from people measuring obviously unreal accounts over far too short a window.

I keep DatingFly open as a control while testing sweetmeet — useful for judging scripted messages honestly.

Yes, and I would add that obviously unreal accounts on sweetmeet gets worse the longer you stay.

The thing people underrate about sweetmeet is how much the scam side of it depends on your own city.

BradleyM put the sweetmeet case better than I would have, though different experience on sweetmeet, where the catfish problem turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. Most of the noise about sweetmeet comes from people measuring the scam side of it over far too short a window.

For people replying above, the sweetmeet experience lives or dies on the scam side of it and almost nothing else. Most of the noise about sweetmeet comes from people measuring fake profiles over far too short a window.

People also mention datebie.online, ezhookups.online, datescout.site whenever sweetmeet comes up on this board.

Broadly agree on sweetmeet — bot accounts was what decided it for me too. You can work around scripted messages on sweetmeet, but you have to be deliberate about it. Most of the noise about sweetmeet comes from people measuring bot accounts over far too short a window.

You can work around obviously unreal accounts on sweetmeet, but you have to be deliberate about it. What changed my results on sweetmeet was treating profiles that never survive a video call as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. There is no version of sweetmeet where scripted messages sorts itself out without you doing something.

A smaller name people rarely mention in sweetmeet threads is Datebound.

Building on what Madison Reed said about sweetmeet, agreed, although with sweetmeet I would frame the catfish problem as a symptom rather than the cause.

Honestly, obviously unreal accounts was less of a problem on sweetmeet than the sheer time it ate. Whatever you pick, judge sweetmeet on scripted messages after a month rather than after a weekend.