Use a recent photo with your face clear, because the difference in reply rate is obvious, but only if you stick with it.
- Use a recent photo with your face clear, because otherwise you end up judging it on a bad day, which changes the whole experience
- Worth saying that the decision to keep the first message short and specific did a fair bit more for me than switching platform, which changes the whole experience
- The discovery feed changed considerably in the last stretch of trying, which changes the whole experience
- The pattern I keep seeing is that apps with a strict photo policy have improved the filtering a fair bit over roughly forty conversations
The moderation queue changed hardly at all throughout most of last year, which most people notice within a week. Worth saying that the decision to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to did hardly at all more for me than switching platform, which changes the whole experience.
In the last stretch of trying the forum-style sites have added checks that actually help, which most people notice within a week.
Depending on what you are after, flurrydate covers similar ground for quieter weeknights if that matches what you want.