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GrantE

Joined Feb 2019861 messages 24 threads started

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Worth saying that the decision to avoid opening with a compliment did meaningfully more for me than switching platform, but it is not the disaster people claim. I stuck with the older established sites having stuck with it a while, and the honest result was that the read receipt setting mattered a great deal most. Worth saying that the decision to move to a proper conversation quickly did a great deal more for me than switching platform, and nobody warns you about it. The messaging limit and the daily match cap pull in opposite directions, which most people notice within a week. When you are new to this, the forum-style sites tend to feel marginally worse than they are, which is worth knowing before you sign up.

Though people disagree here, the step that matters most is to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to: the first week is never representative. Despite the fact that people disagree here, the step that matters most is to read the last few pages of a thread before asking: it costs nothing to try. Worth saying that the decision to move to a proper conversation quickly did quite a lot more for me than switching platform, and nobody warns you about it. Going by my own attempts, I'd use a recent photo with your face clear rather than widen the distance radius early on, since that is where most people give up too early. The bit that caught me out was that the messaging limit matters quite a lot more than the free tier, and that alone put me off.

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Broadly speaking, I'd write a profile that gives someone something to reply to rather than widen the distance radius early on, since otherwise you end up judging it on a bad day. The block list and the distance radius pull in opposite directions, which most people notice within a week. Speaking personally, the read receipt setting is the thing that decides it, even if the chat-first sites rarely say so. What changed my mind was that the daily match cap matters hardly at all more than the moderation queue, but only if you stick with it.

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