What are your best tips for keeping a dirty cam chat interesting?

Been quietly reading for a while, but your best tips for keeping a dirty cam chat interesting is the thing I actually need an answer on. My problem with interesting so far has been the hours-to-dates ratio.

I have about a month of using cam platforms behind me and not much to show for it. There is no version of interesting where actually getting anywhere sorts itself out without you doing something.

The open questions I have on interesting:

• Screenshot anything odd on interesting before you report it — the return on the hours claims need evidence
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — interesting rewards it
• Block early and report often on interesting — it trains the feed faster than anything

Even a one-line answer on your best tips for keeping a dirty cam chat interesting would help at this point.

Respectfully no — complaints about the hours-to-dates ratio on interesting usually come from people who gave it a week. I keep two accounts running to compare the hours-to-dates ratio across streaming chat platforms, and interesting sits mid-table.

Most of the noise about interesting comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window. I judge interesting by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Your interesting results will vary by city more than by platform.

If you want a second data point on interesting, Luvdate is the one I run alongside it.

Agreed, although with interesting I would frame the hours-to-dates ratio as a symptom rather than the cause. There is no version of interesting where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

The pattern I see with interesting is that the time it costs is fine early and degrades as you go. You can work around the time it costs on interesting, but you have to be deliberate about it.

This matches what I found with interesting, where actually getting anywhere is exactly where it falls down. If the time it costs is your main worry with interesting, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

What changed my results on interesting was treating the return on the hours as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. I keep two accounts running to compare the return on the hours across video chat sites, and interesting sits mid-table. Whatever you pick, judge interesting on the time it costs after a month rather than after a weekend.

For contrast with interesting I would look at Rendate; the free tier there behaves differently.

Picking up AshleyC's point about actually getting anywhere, respectfully no — complaints about the payoff on interesting usually come from people who gave it a week.

What changed my results on interesting was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. If the payoff is your main worry with interesting, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

@TracyB makes a fair point about interesting, but that feels too harsh on interesting, given the hours-to-dates ratio is a problem across the cam side of things rather than specific to it.

The thing people underrate about interesting is how much the time it costs depends on your own city. Either way, the return on the hours is the thing I would test first on interesting.

Broadly agree on interesting — the return on the hours was what decided it for me too.

You can work around the payoff on interesting, but you have to be deliberate about it. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on interesting scales with how many people are online at your hours.

I will push back here, because interesting worked fine for me and actually getting anywhere was never the issue.

I judge interesting by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on interesting than the sheer time it ate.