Broadly speaking, expecting any single conversation to work out is the wrong frame — that is the bit I would tell anyone signing up today. I saw on a stripchat reddit thread that you can earn tokens by playing games—is this true? For what it is worth, patience is genuinely the differentiator, dull as that sounds — small thing, but it adds up.
Speaking generally, the slow approach tends to produce better outcomes than the volume one — others here may have had a different experience.
- After one bad experience I gave each platform a fair month before judging it
- After one bad experience I rewrote my opening line whenever replies started drying up, and the difference showed within days
- Customer support responsiveness
My take: progress is better measured in conversations than in matches — that is the bit I would tell anyone signing up today.