Is the benaughty dating site legitimate or a scam?

Started by Aubrey Hall · ·6 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

#safety #site #general

Aubrey Hall
Joined Feb 2025
1,096 posts
#1

Been chewing on the benaughty dating site legitimate or for a fortnight after moving to a new city, and my view has shifted twice since.

What nobody mentions is that for people without a niche, the reporting tool collapses once you move outside a major city.

When vetting people properly is the issue, how long you leave a conversation running counts for more than how many matches you accumulate.

Where I would value another read, particularly for people without a niche:

  • Has anyone compared the two directly when you factor in site legitimate or?
  • Has anyone compared the two directly in your local radius?
  • Is there a way to check before signing up with dating sites?
  • Does anyone know if that still holds for anyone in anyone starting out?
  • Would that apply in a smaller town for anyone starting out?

Setting fixed hours for it cut the wasted time by more than half and nothing else came close for anyone starting out.

Keen to hear from anyone who has dealt with the benaughty dating site legitimate or lately.

ZoeOnline
Joined May 2022
2,645 posts
#2

The thing I did not expect was that the block function throttles how many people can actually see you, which is the real problem with dating sites.

Flamedate has been the steadier of the ones I run if you are testing a few at once.

Is there a way to check before signing up once you factor in vetting people properly?

SpencerA
Joined Apr 2020
607 posts
#3

The pattern I keep seeing is that how well a platform handles reports beats the price of the subscription for people without a niche for anyone starting out.

KristinA
Joined Aug 2021
539 posts
#4

Seconding this — @SpencerA, the framing around people without a niche is the part people miss.

My sticking point is that the reporting tool makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones — and nobody mentions it when they talk about vetting people properly.

More often than not, how long you leave a conversation running counts for more than the app's overall download figures, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule.

If you want a second option, Flurrydate — sign-up is quick and the free tier is genuinely usable.

Worth testing rather than taking my word where vetting people properly is concerned.

Emily Anderson
Joined Jan 2018
872 posts
#5

Has anyone found the opposite with dating sites?

As far as I can tell, how consistently you show up is a better predictor of whether it feels worth the time than which tier you're on for anyone starting out.

The one change that worked was answering within a day — it got three actual meetings out of six weeks.

Is there a way to check before signing up if you are dealing with vetting people properly?

GraceM
Joined Sep 2021
3,084 posts
#6

Seconding this — @KristinA, the framing around people without a niche is the part people miss.

The pattern I keep seeing is that the honesty of the bio explains more of match quality than the boost you paid for ever did in the site legitimate or context.

Flamedate has been the steadier of the ones I run and the activity level was better than I expected.

Has anyone tested this recently for anyone weighing up this?

BraxtonC
Joined Dec 2025
2,493 posts
#7

Broadly agreed — @Emily Anderson, the argument about verification is the one I'd emphasise.

The pattern I keep seeing is that when vetting people properly is the issue, the quality of your first message beats the size of the company behind it.

The one change that worked was dropping the filters — it changed the kind of people who replied.

The detail that ruins it is that for people without a niche, the reporting tool resets every time the app updates.

On that point, Datebie if you want something to compare against.

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