Is it just me?

Is it just me?

MisterAshmodai​(dom male) • Dec 8, 2024

Is it just me, or does it seem like, since the blue check mark option came out (which I'll get around to doing eventually), there seem to be more 'iffy' profiles popping up?

Nothing that I would outright report primarily due to lack of concrete evidence (and a disdain for the McCarthy approach), but when you've been in the scene for a long enough period of time, you tend to start to notice patterns.

TwinkleEyes{N/A} • Dec 9, 2024

It’s a good observation. Last bunch of profiles I noticed coming on at once was the Asian “females”. They had been on before and poof they are gone again.

MissBonnie​(dom female){oz} • Dec 9, 2024

it's the holiday period in my experience online and running several adult sites, every Christmas brings in an influx of traffic. I guess people have more time to explore online. I've also noticed (since I'm AU in a different season. Its my hotter months) that those countries in winter or colder weather tend to increase online, maybe for the reasons..more inside time and more looking for things to do. In my hemisphere its also the time of year where school of every kind finishes up till Feb/march. Our building trades stop work and most business close. A single Domme friend of mine just said its also the time of year that "family" plays a huge part of life and those single tend to feel "alone" . She feels that alone feeling or that feeling of "not quite having what you desire" kicks the hardest.
About half way through January or early February it goes back to normal. I dont think its the verification...more the time of the year

MisterAshmodai​(dom male) • Dec 9, 2024

I was referring less to the actual influx of profiles in general (which your point supports, and I had not considered prior to your making it), but what seems like a higher number of profiles I would automatically consider either fake or nefarious in their goals. More so than I have noticed up to this point on the Cage, at least. I know that my control is limited as I really only look at the profiles of submissive or switch users who identify as female or other, so I am far from seeing the whole picture, but that has been my observation.

Another thing I hadn't entirely considered that your point supports is that the holidays might just be increasing the numbers of aggressive users looking to overcome that overwhelming holiday loneliness. Aggressive, while potentially annoying, is not something I would consider problematic in the same way as outright manipulative for personal gain. It also wouldn't be new, at least from my experience in dealing with my share of the overly persistent.