Are adult cams worth the "tips" you have to give?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: are adult cams worth the "tips" you have to give.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on adult cam and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

Specifically, on adult cam, the things I actually care about are:

• How much tips actually costs you when using adult cam
• What moderation on adult cam actually looks like when you report someone
• How quickly adult cam puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Any first-hand experience with adult cam would help more than another list.

Disagree on one point: adult cam is far less platform-dependent than people here are assuming.

Adding the Datingfly free tier to the pile for adult cam, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

I keep the Flamedate boards open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with adult cam.

DavidN, that's roughly where I landed on adult cam too. I'd qualify this: adult cam works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

The tips element is where people get stung with adult cam, so check it before anything else.

Datescout itself is what I ended up using while working through adult cam — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Took me about six weeks on adult cam before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Disagree with VicKing slightly here on adult cam. For adult cam, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

Rendate.site comes up a lot when adult cam gets discussed elsewhere.