As someone with no profile picture and no posts, I could have a perspective on this. Although I can see how paranoid most perspectives on here have been shown to be it doesnt have to be something so suspicious. I mean people can have posts and profile pictures and it means nothing if they intend to lie and cheat and catfish and all those wonderful things. I simply do not wish to make roots on here, or make friends, or have other people want to know me or assume things about me and yet it is a place I can come and go as I please when the mood takes me. Sometimes, it is as simple as that without any ulterior motives.
@Ambroseguy80 I don't know. I feel that there may be more of accounts like mine that aren't there for any malicious or otherwise underhanded intentions. Especially when people with such intentions are more likely to want to intermingle and that requires blending in with posts and photos to gain 'trust' of a legitimate account. It just gives a false level of security when people see an account with what is considered 'normal'. Although I hear you and I hear the reasons people may have to be suspicious. It's why I prefer to see things case by case, rather than groupings when it comes to matters like these.
It does seem strange. Why come on here and not contribute? I do my best to write posts that might interest people. Some are a bit adult, and some contain some (I hope reasonably tasteful) nudity, so but that’s the nice thing about a site like this.
I used to do that. Sometimes I really do not like to interact with anyone. So I removed my DP and change the settings . If anyone visit the profile they would only able to see my username only. I hardly DM anyone here . I am kinda anti-social. 🙏
It has been my experience that most of them are ALT accounts, set up so that the member can misbehave or snoop around (because their original has been previously blocked) in accounts they can't normally see and or safely violate the terms of use for the site.
If you have VIP you will see masses of them who have visited your account. Always pop up after I block someone nasty. Always low views, no posts, no gifts. Given my history with some bad actors on here...I block those as soon as I see them. My SW experience has improved dramatically.
I'd assume that most are people who don't want to be 'rediscovered'; like they have some long history here and they don't want someone, anyone, or maybe just several people to know/guess who they are or figure anything out about them outside of direct coms.
I know that annoys me too, and those are the ones that do not read anything you have on your profile page either, but send you a PM messages saying they are single, you're hot, and they want to talk with you.
That is because they are fake accounts, alternates, decoys. Takes too much effort to maintain a whole mess of fake accounts, and even harder to play them properly, remembering everyone you chatted with and what nonsense you spewed.