What are the best rated dating sites according to people who actually got married?

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Brittany Lake
Joined: Jan 2023
Messages: 76
#1

Putting the best rated dating sites according to people who actually got married to the board because search results on it are almost entirely marketing. For most of us posting here, the payoff is the whole question with rated dating sites.

I have tried a few options across the free end of the market already and none of them stuck. I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across no-payment dating sites, and rated dating sites sits mid-table.

The open questions I have on rated dating sites:

  • Do not move off rated dating sites into private messaging until the payoff looks handled
  • Compare rated dating sites against free dating apps on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Check what rated dating sites does about actually getting anywhere before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Turn off read receipts on rated dating sites if the payoff is making you anxious about response times

I will report back on the best rated dating sites according to people who actually got married once I have tried whatever gets recommended.

Connor Price
Joined: Jan 2023
Messages: 345
#2

Brittany Lake is right about one part of rated dating sites: different experience on rated dating sites, where the return on the hours turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. For most people in this thread, the rated dating sites experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else.

For most of us posting here, the rated dating sites experience lives or dies on the return on the hours and almost nothing else. The thing people underrate about rated dating sites is how much the hours-to-dates ratio depends on your own city. Most of the noise about rated dating sites comes from people measuring actually getting anywhere over far too short a window.

Three things that changed my rated dating sites results:

  • Do not move off rated dating sites into private messaging until actually getting anywhere looks handled
  • Compare rated dating sites against free platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Check what rated dating sites does about the time it costs before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Turn off read receipts on rated dating sites if the hours-to-dates ratio is making you anxious about response times
XanderM
Joined: Oct 2023
Messages: 768
#3

Same experience on rated dating sites: I gave it six weeks before the time it costs got tiresome. The pattern I see with rated dating sites is that the return on the hours is fine early and degrades as you go.

For most of us posting here, the rated dating sites experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. You can work around the return on the hours on rated dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it. That is my read on rated dating sites, and others here clearly disagree.

Worth a look alongside rated dating sites: Rendate, if only to see how differently actually getting anywhere can be handled.

Cole Fisher
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 819
#4

Disagree, because blaming the effort-to-result ratio lets you off the hook — my rated dating sites results improved when my profile did. Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on rated dating sites scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The pattern I see with rated dating sites is that the payoff is fine early and degrades as you go. What changed my results on rated dating sites was treating the payoff as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Either way, the hours-to-dates ratio is the thing I would test first on rated dating sites.

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EvanH
Joined: Sep 2022
Messages: 522
#5

Building on what Cole Fisher said about rated dating sites, this matches what I found with rated dating sites, where the hours-to-dates ratio is exactly where it falls down. There is no version of rated dating sites where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something. I keep two accounts running to compare the effort-to-result ratio across free platforms, and rated dating sites sits mid-table.

For the members answering here, the rated dating sites experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. You can work around actually getting anywhere on rated dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it. Either way, actually getting anywhere is the thing I would test first on rated dating sites.

Emma Hayes
Joined: May 2024
Messages: 677
#6

I read EvanH's reply on rated dating sites and disagree, because blaming the hours-to-dates ratio lets you off the hook — my rated dating sites results improved when my profile did. You can work around the time it costs on rated dating sites, but you have to be deliberate about it.

The pattern I see with rated dating sites is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go. The thing people underrate about rated dating sites is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city. Happy to answer follow-ups on rated dating sites if that helps.

Eli Marsh
Joined: Nov 2021
Messages: 230
#7

That has not been my experience of rated dating sites, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread.

The thing people underrate about rated dating sites is how much the payoff depends on your own city. Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on rated dating sites than the sheer time it ate.

NickT
Joined: Nov 2022
Messages: 43
#8

Not my read at all: for most people in this thread, rated dating sites was the only thing that produced anything. Most of the noise about rated dating sites comes from people measuring the return on the hours over far too short a window.

What changed my results on rated dating sites was treating actually getting anywhere as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. The pattern I see with rated dating sites is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Whatever you pick, judge rated dating sites on actually getting anywhere after a month rather than after a weekend.

My rated dating sites baseline these days is Rendate, mostly because the hours-to-dates ratio is measurable there.

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