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Fans - do you get it?
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Fans - do you get it? Hi, And as part of my monthly contractual obligation to extend my Gold membership (money's too tight to mention, darlings...), here is my September rambling. I see that in the last few months, LesbianPersonals have introduced a "Fan" system, no, not new air-conditioning for their offices, but a system whereby one can receive bids or one can make bids to become someone's fan. I'm not a big, er, fan of fan systems, I have to say, and the system on here puzzles me. I'll try and explain. I'm a member of another website (surprise, surprise) which is a bit more focused on CD's, TV's, TGirls. I won't mention its name of course. Now, on that site, it allows me to put pics up (like on here) and, if I wish, I can get people to give marks out of 10 for each pic. The more marks I get, the higher up a popularity list I go, and every month the Top Babes are published. Personally, I have the voting facility turned off. As a TGirl I like to get positive compliments about my pics and profile as much as any other, but I'm not precious about it. I'm certainly old enough (and no, you don't need to remind me of my age, thank you very much!) and I'm sure there will be those that would say ugly enough not to be too concerned about what other people think. You can please all of the people, etc etc. But I began to realise that some of the girls got upset (and I mean REALLY upset) when they got voted 1's and 2's for their pics. So much so they would rant about it on their profile and in the forums. Of course, this had the predictable effect of others piling in to do exactly the same thing. Conversely, there would be girls that would put almost unrealistically beautiful pics up which would get 10's, and there were some that would use the forums and chatrooms to actively promote their pics - some of the slightly unkinder girls would call it "vote whoring" - they always knew when the cut-off for voted that month would be, and would launch a provocative number of forum posts to get attention. But here in LesbianPersonals land, it's just there, and I don't quite get how it works. First, correct me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't appear to be any way of switching it off. As I said before, as flattering as it is to receive the recognition, I'm not that precious about it. Second, what does anyone get out of it? For example, do I get something special for making the top 10 in the world? And what about the point givers? What do they get, apart from using all their points? Do they get anything? For example, there's one guy here in the UK who has donated over 60,000 points to one person! That kind of tells me that he's a bit interested in her, to say the least... So, is it a motivational thing? Am I supposed to be more favourably disposed to my Number 1 Fan? Am I more likely to want to meet my fans than those that are my friends on LesbianPersonals? If I vote for someone, does that make them think I want to meet them? I'd be interested in any explanations or comments anyone may have. Thanks for your time! x x x Maggie |
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hey maggie did not get your statement well.
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You can turn it off by going to your account then privacy preferences. If someone is the first to bid on you, they get points, and I believe you get some, too. Not many, perhaps 25. After that I'm not too sure if you get points for every bidder. I'm sure if you look on the site's help page you'll get the answer to that. It is, of course, a ploy by LesbianPersonals to get bidders using their points and spending money on points. The latter I find quite unbelievable. I guess some people really do have more money than sense. Many do it in the hope that you'll be interested in them simply because they've shown interest in you via the game. Of course, it doesn't work that way. People who ask others to bid on them want to look "popular", some promise things like cam showings, pictures, etc. You can remove bidders that you don't want. For example, someone you've already told you're not interested might decide to stalk you via the Top Fans game. It's all just a big con, really. But, if you choose to, look at it as a bit of harmless fun. Trouble is, not everyone sees it that way, and that's when the problems begin  I'm sure if I've missed anything, others will add to what I've said, but I hope it helps you somewhat  "I'm always disappointed when a liar's pants don't actually catch on fire..."
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Thanks for the info and good comments!
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