question Before trying a new site, what feedback do you actually trust?

Been going down a bit of a rabbit hole lately looking at different gambling sites, and heaps of the write-ups out there feel dodgy as... every place somehow gets 9.7/10 and 'fast payouts' lol.

I usually trust forum posts more than those shiny rating pages, but even then you've gotta sift through a fair bit of rubbish. What do you lot actually look for when you're checking if a site is worth a crack? Withdrawal times? KYC dramas? Whether support goes missing the second you win?

For me, if I see a bunch of people saying the cashout got held up for ages or they kept asking for more docs after already verifying, that's enough to put me off pretty quick. Same with bonus terms that look sweet until you read the sneaky bits.

Keen to hear how everyone else checks a site before signing up. Any red flags you bail on straight away, or any review places/forums you reckon are actually decent?

I get a bit sus when the licence info is buried or the terms page looks like it was copied off three other places. If I can't figure out who actually runs the site after a quick poke around, I bail. Bit nosey maybe, but that tells me more than the flashy front page.