About

Who Actually Runs Skip The Games

The short answer is a small crew of adult-classifieds operators who have been doing this since Craigslist erotic services was still up. The longer answer, including how a provider actually ends up on this site, is below.

The Origin Story (Compressed)

In April 2018 the federal government seized Backpage. A lot of the classifieds space died overnight. What replaced it was, mostly, a landfill: scam clones with the same domain-swap tricks, "verified" checkmarks nobody actually issued, and photos lifted straight off Instagram. A handful of us who had been running smaller adult sites watched providers get burned week after week and eventually got together to build something we would actually let a friend use.

That is Skip The Games .io. It is deliberately small, deliberately US-focused for now, and deliberately kept boring on the trust side. Every provider has a government ID on file. Every ad is read by a human before it goes live. If a listing gets flagged twice in the same month, it comes down while we look into it. None of that is glamorous. It is the reason the ads on here are not stolen from someone's OnlyFans.

How a Provider Ends Up on the Site

Intake is not a form-and-done situation. Here is what actually happens between an application and a live ad, in the order it happens:

  1. She submits a listing draft. Photos, blurb, service city, contact preference, rates if she wants to publish them.
  2. ID check. Government-issued photo ID, live selfie holding the ID, DOB confirmation. Anyone under 19 gets rejected on the spot. IDs are stored encrypted and never appear anywhere on the public site.
  3. Photo verification. We reverse image search every photo. If the same shot is up on ten OnlyFans accounts, the application does not move forward. If she took a fresh timestamped photo for us, it moves along quickly.
  4. Copy review. A moderator reads the ad. Anything that reads like a copy-paste template, mentions explicit money-for-acts language, or violates our no-underage-language rule gets flagged for edits or rejection. About 30% of ads never make it past this step on the first try.
  5. Publish and monitor. The ad goes live in her city. If she gets three or more legitimate report tickets in a rolling 30-day window, we re-review. If she stops responding to intake messages for six weeks, the ad gets archived.

That flow is deliberately more work than the sign-up form on any of the other post-Backpage boards. That is the point. Volume goes down, quality goes up, and nobody messages a listing here expecting to reach a bot.

Our Editorial Policy in Plain Language

  • No paid placement. A provider cannot pay to appear higher in her city. Sort order is based on last-active-time and verification recency. Sponsorships elsewhere on the site are always labeled.
  • No affiliate links inside a listing. Providers link to their own contact points, not to third-party sites they earn a commission from. If we catch it, the ad comes down.
  • No fabricated reviews. If we ever run a testimonial or a review, it is from a real client who consented in writing to being quoted. There is no "review farm" here.
  • Guides are written by someone who has actually done the thing. The first-time-escort guide is not a scraped article from ten other websites. The safety rules were written after reviewing 300+ support tickets and figuring out what the common failure modes actually are.
  • We do not sell your data. Signup logs are used to debug the funnel and detect scam attempts. Nothing is sold to a third-party marketing list, ever.

The "Not Affiliated with .com" Thing

This gets asked a lot. The confusion is real, and we cannot fix it with a header banner, so here is the answer once with a link you can share: Skip The Games .io vs .com is a full breakdown of who runs which site, how the reputations diverged, and why we picked the .io TLD in the first place. Short version: different operators, different verification standards, different eras. We are the newer, smaller, moderated one.

Contact and Reporting

If a listing is off, if a photo looks stolen, if a rate does not add up, if you had a bad meetup and want it documented, or if you are a provider who needs an ad taken down: the support channel on the signup page reaches the same inbox the moderation team reads. Expect a reply inside a day, sometimes faster if it is a take-down request.

If you are with the press or a partner platform, contact@skipthegames.io gets to us directly. We do not run public social accounts because the signal-to-noise on adult-space Twitter is bad enough that we would rather answer email.

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