What are the top 10 dating sites according to Consumer Reports?

Asking because the top 10 dating sites according to Consumer Reports keeps coming up and I still cannot get a straight answer. If removal speed for bad accounts is bad on dating sites for consumer, nothing else about it matters.

For context I am mostly comparing free dating apps rather than anything niche. I keep two accounts running to compare block reliability across free platforms, and dating sites for consumer sits mid-table.

Concretely, for dating sites for consumer:

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

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about the top 10 dating sites according to Consumer Reports.

That feels too harsh on dating sites for consumer, given the moderation backlog is a problem across free dating apps rather than specific to it.

For people who have actually tried it, the dating sites for consumer experience lives or dies on the moderation backlog and almost nothing else. If report handling is your main worry with dating sites for consumer, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Somebody in another dating sites for consumer thread pointed me at Datebie and it held up better than expected on removal speed for bad accounts.

Seconding this, because on dating sites for consumer the honest answer is that response time on reports varies enormously by area. Most of the noise about dating sites for consumer comes from people measuring moderation over far too short a window.

Nobody warns you that report handling on dating sites for consumer scales with how many people are online at your hours. You can work around the moderation backlog on dating sites for consumer, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Not my read at all: for the crowd on this board, dating sites for consumer was the only thing that produced anything. Most of the noise about dating sites for consumer comes from people measuring the moderation backlog over far too short a window.

I judge dating sites for consumer by one thing now: whether moderation improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Take that as one data point on dating sites for consumer rather than a recommendation.

Picking up Owen Sterling's point about response time on reports, not my read at all: for the crowd on this board, dating sites for consumer was the only thing that produced anything.

You can work around response time on reports on dating sites for consumer, but you have to be deliberate about it. That is my read on dating sites for consumer, and others here clearly disagree.

Where I differ from Ethan Parker on dating sites for consumer: broadly agree on dating sites for consumer — block reliability was what decided it for me too. Most of the noise about dating sites for consumer comes from people measuring block reliability over far too short a window.

The thing people underrate about dating sites for consumer is how much report handling depends on your own city. For regulars here, the dating sites for consumer experience lives or dies on report handling and almost nothing else. Whatever you pick, judge dating sites for consumer on report handling after a month rather than after a weekend.

The usual dating sites for consumer alternatives people list are ezhookups.online, souldate.site, datebound.site.

That tracks with my dating sites for consumer run, which was fine until block reliability became the whole experience.

There is no version of dating sites for consumer where removal speed for bad accounts sorts itself out without you doing something. The thing people underrate about dating sites for consumer is how much moderation depends on your own city.

Things I wish somebody had told me about dating sites for consumer:

• Run dating sites for consumer beside one other option so you have a baseline for block reliability
• Turn off read receipts on dating sites for consumer if removal speed for bad accounts is making you anxious about response times
• Compare dating sites for consumer against free platforms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
• Message within a day of matching — on dating sites for consumer that window closes fast
• Give dating sites for consumer a fortnight of daily use before calling the moderation backlog a dealbreaker

If you want a second data point on dating sites for consumer, Luvdate is the one I run alongside it.

Derek Chang and I've clearly used dating sites for consumer differently, because not my read at all: for most people in this thread, dating sites for consumer was the only thing that produced anything.

The thing people underrate about dating sites for consumer is how much the moderation backlog depends on your own city. You can work around moderation on dating sites for consumer, but you have to be deliberate about it.

The usual dating sites for consumer alternatives people list are souldate.site, datewander.site, rendate.site.