i think any site where you can interact with the owner in some capacity is less likely to scam you. if you look back the owners of stake were always pretty engaged with their players on primedice and other projects before.
We cannot tell the site is legit if the owner interact with us, every new project have less budget to spend community managers or all this baaic task that the owner or Co founder can do, so we cannot trust them on that basis,
Also inthis industry everyone is anonymous mostly, and any user can pretend to be the owner and earn by their affiliate program.