From what I have seen, the slow approach tends to produce better outcomes than the volume one — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it.
In my experience, silence usually means the opener, not the person — worth testing yourself rather than taking my word for it.
What actually helped:
- Something I learned the hard way — I used an email alias I could switch off if the spam started right from the first week
- Without fail I avoided anything that hid the price until after sign-up
- Never used my main debit card on a platform I had just found
- Almost immediately I matched the other person's message length instead of writing essays right from the first week
- Almost immediately I kept my location settings at city level rather than precise, and it saved me a lot of grief
I tried Souldate after seeing it come up in a few threads. For what it is worth, treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — others here may have had a different experience. Datedesire was the one