Yes. Raya's terms say it periodically reviews its community and can suspend or terminate accounts. The grounds it names include lack of use, periodic membership reviews and changes to how many members it keeps. Acceptance gets you in. It does not promise you stay in, and the two things that keep you there are using the app and treating the women on it well.
What the terms allow Raya to do
Raya keeps the right to review its members after they have been let in, not only at the door.
The terms name a few grounds. An account can be suspended or closed for lack of use. It can be affected by the periodic reviews Raya runs on its community. And it can be affected by what the terms call membership count adjustments, which means changes to how many members Raya keeps.
Those grounds are not all the same kind of thing. Lack of use is about you. A count adjustment is about the community as a whole. It is worth keeping the two apart, because one of them is in your hands and the other is not.
Lack of use is a reason on its own
This is the ground most men never think about. An account does not have to do anything wrong to be at risk. It only has to sit there.
From Raya's side, the reasoning is easy to follow. It is a small, curated community, and a member who never opens the app takes up a place without adding anything to it. From your side, the fix is just as easy. Use it.
That does not mean living on the app. a dating coach keeps his app time to a fixed window, about half an hour a day split into two short sessions, one in the morning and one in the evening. In each session he deals with the women closest to a date first, then the conversations already going, and only then anyone new. A routine like that keeps an account active without letting it take over your evenings.
If you want a break, Raya gives members a hide feature and a paused status. The terms do not say how a long pause is treated in a review, so do not use either one as a way to park an account for good.
Reports are rare, so do not be the reason for one
Raya's About page says reports come in on only a tiny share of connections, and it encourages members to report anyone who is disrespectful.
Read those two facts together. Most connections on Raya go by without a complaint, and Raya wants to hear about the ones that do not. The simplest way to stay in good standing is never to be the man a woman feels she has to report.
What gets men reported
Almost nobody means to get reported. It usually starts with eagerness that goes too far.
Raya's own rules give you the list. Its terms ban using the app to promote a business or ask for money. They also ban contact a woman could reasonably find uncomfortable or annoying. The same goes for anything antagonistic or overly promotional. And they bar using what you learn on Raya to contact a member elsewhere without her explicit consent. In practice, that covers the man who turns sexual before a first meeting and the man who keeps writing to a woman who has not answered. It also covers the man who argues when she says no, and the man who finds her on another app after she goes quiet.
dating advice coach Hector Castillo is fine with writing to a woman again after she goes quiet. His warning is about how you do it. Sending "hey" and then "sup" two hours later looks bad. Waiting a few days and sending one new message does not.
How to stay active without being a nuisance
Good behavior on Raya looks the same as good behavior on any app, and it happens to be the kind that gets dates.
Answer women on the day they reply. Keep your messages short, a line or two about something she chose to share. Ask a question she can answer easily. Once she is clearly enjoying the chat, suggest a plan. a dating coach's rule is that the point of app messaging is to get off the app and onto a date, so swap numbers once you have a loose plan and carry on by text.
A man who handles his conversations this way is active and respectful, and those are the two things Raya's rules keep pointing at.
What you control and what you do not
You cannot control a membership count adjustment. If Raya decides to trim its numbers, the terms allow it, and no amount of good behavior can promise you are outside it.
You can control the rest. Open the app regularly, treat every woman you talk to the way you would want your sister treated, and move good conversations toward a date. That covers every ground you have a say over, and it is also the way to get the most out of the membership while you have it.
Written by Matthew Stevens, Co-Founder & Head Coach. More than half a decade coaching men across the US and worldwide.
Everything here comes out of real coaching work: the approaches, dates, texts and profiles we go through with the men we coach.