Well.. I know mfc since some time, and clearly the site has gained a lot of weight in terms of traffic, relevance, etc. IMO is not only just SEO and external promotion. IMHO, is a actually solidly based in the social aspect (the wiki for users is full of references to this, direct or indirect ones) . So it's pretty clear that the perception received by the users, needed to be that one, like it or not. And a huge part of its traffic (traffic, not each model's success once you get all that crazy load of people browsing internally the site), and so, the money all models gain, is due to this amazing loads of visits per day, the authority given by Google to the site, and the partly freemium (a huge part of this model owes its success to the fact that members do think they are socially interacting, specially the higher tippers) + social model, working as a great carrot for all. Not just the name my free cams has taken a big part in it, but the whole focus, site features, etc, lead to give every incoming visitor through the freemium model: You get to know the site, and even interact a little, to see if you are ok with putting money for the activities. If you think this all would work without it... Hum, no, I don't think you seriously believe that. Of course, once models do get an audience, there's this sensation that the general system (the carrot) didn't help to get there. Or that wont be needed in the long run. But IMO, that'd be wrong (in my 2c version of it. Although is not important to me, at all)
I used t tip really high (and I mean really. But who would believe it, lol). Just that specially in the late times, it was pretty random, and very rarely to contribute for a show, nor any of the usual reasons. So I guess they were more than fine with that. Consider that I was the one invited, if logged in, to the chat room (2 or 3 models, only.Now I only speak with one). Even if said in the PM message window that I was not going to give tokens. So, if the purpose was other than chatting, I would not understand... But I was indeed speaking generally, not of my case, I was using my own experience to try to understand the matter, but that's all. I don't really go through this game of tokens-shows anymore (for chatting, prefer skype friends which I know from real life. And for the other aspect of it, actual sex is better, obviously, and porn as is something I always consumed more or less)...But when it was the time I tipped, it was big quantities. I do agree this is no reason at all to expect new attention (neither need it). Of course not. But as I say, the initiative does not come from me. Probably is because I tipped a real lot in the past, maybe the thought of the chance for this, of something like that, remains, and meanwhile, I must not be super boring chatting or sth? Maybe. Is not the center of my life, anyway, lol. I mean, if there's some shadow of a possibility that it's seen with bad eyes that I chat to some model (they seem clearly bored at times, but is not that I am thinking I'm a good solution for that, lol. Just that didn't seem to be bad) , then by all means, I should not get into those rooms anymore. True that I never plan on tipping (despite if I finally tip or not), if I have tokens I give them randomly. This way, those tokens will never reach there, but well, the rules of the game (not clear, or easily accessible in any visible place in the site) , if those are clearly these, I do respect them. Anyway, as mentioned, I've no need for the place, at all.
(that said, I really hope it keeps going so well, as seems it solves a lot of personal situations (speaking only about models))
About the traffic matter... it perhaps would be curious to see what the site would be without this constant success in bringing new visitors, without that flow (and what really brings it there, and keeps it)... But well, nothing that I am particularly interested in convince anyone about (meaning the reasons why so many come, why it works so greatly in google, and why certain lot of people hang in there).
Anyway, is not that I've ever thought the friendship can be 'real' (there), or completely so. I kind of saw it more of an act of politeness, social behavior, and because, as fake as it could be, the exchange of ideas/talk happens whether or not models are acting also when speaking at certain levels and after some time. Is not that I think every person I talk to in the street and in general life are being totally open or really sincere... Maybe a 2% of those would be even a generous number, heh. But definitely, if is that generalized that is seen with bad eyes (the social aspect of it even if no tokens show up in a whole conversation) am out, the worse would be not respecting the mentioned rules, written or not.