What is dirtyroulette?

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James
Joined: Aug 2020
Messages: 57
#1

I want to be wrong about dirtyroulette, so tell me if I am. The bit nobody covers on dirtyroulette is actually getting anywhere.

I have about a month of using the cam side of things behind me and not much to show for it. What changed my results on dirtyroulette was treating the return on the hours as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

The open questions I have on dirtyroulette:

  • Photos with other people in them do worse on dirtyroulette than you would guess
  • Test actually getting anywhere on dirtyroulette deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Do not pay to fix the effort-to-result ratio on dirtyroulette; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

Tell me what actually happened with dirtyroulette rather than what should happen.

Abigail Foster
Joined: Jan 2023
Messages: 751
#2

Same experience on dirtyroulette: I gave it six weeks before the time it costs got tiresome. The pattern I see with dirtyroulette is that actually getting anywhere is fine early and degrades as you go.

Honestly, the return on the hours was less of a problem on dirtyroulette than the sheer time it ate. Nobody warns you that the effort-to-result ratio on dirtyroulette scales with how many people are online at your hours. You can work around the return on the hours on dirtyroulette, but you have to be deliberate about it.

What worked for me on dirtyroulette:

  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the dirtyroulette pool near you is thin
  • Message within a day of matching — on dirtyroulette that window closes fast
  • Turn off read receipts on dirtyroulette if the time it costs is making you anxious about response times

I keep DatingFly open as a control while testing dirtyroulette — useful for judging actually getting anywhere honestly.

Stella Carson
Joined: Dec 2019
Messages: 121
#3

Building on what Abigail Foster said about dirtyroulette, respectfully no — complaints about the return on the hours on dirtyroulette usually come from people who gave it a week. Honestly, the hours-to-dates ratio was less of a problem on dirtyroulette than the sheer time it ate.

Nobody warns you that actually getting anywhere on dirtyroulette scales with how many people are online at your hours. If actually getting anywhere is your main worry with dirtyroulette, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Three things that changed my dirtyroulette results:

  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; dirtyroulette activity is nothing like flat
  • Ask regulars here what dirtyroulette is like where they actually live, not where you wish you lived
  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on dirtyroulette
jade.online
Joined: Jan 2022
Messages: 591
#4

Where I differ from Stella Carson on dirtyroulette: i would argue the opposite on dirtyroulette: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than streaming chat platforms.

The thing people underrate about dirtyroulette is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city. For the members answering here, the dirtyroulette experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else.

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hunter.online
Joined: Dec 2019
Messages: 454
#5

Where I differ from jade.online on dirtyroulette: that feels too harsh on dirtyroulette, given the time it costs is a problem across streaming chat platforms rather than specific to it. For people who have actually tried it, the dirtyroulette experience lives or dies on the effort-to-result ratio and almost nothing else. I judge dirtyroulette by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

The thing people underrate about dirtyroulette is how much actually getting anywhere depends on your own city. What changed my results on dirtyroulette was treating the hours-to-dates ratio as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on dirtyroulette than the sheer time it ate.

Things I wish somebody had told me about dirtyroulette:

  • Do not move off dirtyroulette into private messaging until actually getting anywhere looks handled
  • Compare dirtyroulette against live video rooms on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Check what dirtyroulette does about the effort-to-result ratio before you upload anything you would not want indexed

A smaller name people rarely mention in dirtyroulette threads is DatingFly.

Nolan
Joined: Dec 2023
Messages: 520
#6

I read hunter.online's reply on dirtyroulette and different experience on dirtyroulette, where the effort-to-result ratio turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

What changed my results on dirtyroulette was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Most of the noise about dirtyroulette comes from people measuring the effort-to-result ratio over far too short a window.

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Tyler Long
Joined: Dec 2019
Messages: 635
#7

Agreed, although with dirtyroulette I would frame the payoff as a symptom rather than the cause. Most of the noise about dirtyroulette comes from people measuring the payoff over far too short a window.

Nobody warns you that the time it costs on dirtyroulette scales with how many people are online at your hours. I judge dirtyroulette by one thing now: whether actually getting anywhere improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Take that as one data point on dirtyroulette rather than a recommendation.

Madison
Joined: Jul 2019
Messages: 879
#8

Disagree, because blaming the hours-to-dates ratio lets you off the hook — my dirtyroulette results improved when my profile did. The thing people underrate about dirtyroulette is how much the payoff depends on your own city.

I judge dirtyroulette by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. Whatever you pick, judge dirtyroulette on the return on the hours after a month rather than after a weekend.

My dirtyroulette baseline these days is Ezhookups, mostly because the effort-to-result ratio is measurable there.

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