Recovery5 said:
As a member I can say with confidence I fucking HATE the camscore thing. It's talked about on everything!.
Twitter - "help me with this guys to get my camscore up", "guys my camscore dropped x amount send me off line love!" etc etc
Rooms - "Guys I can't just hang out and chat even though I would like to, my camscore will drop" "my camscore is low, people must not like me here" "my camscore is low, I'm not good looking enough to be a cam model" "what a shitty day, my camscore dropped x amount"
Profiles - "do this and this and this to help my camscore" camscore this, camscore that.
Seriously, I can see how it affects models on a daily basis, and how their mood goes up and down based on the camscore. FUCKING ridiculous. Imagine how much FUN mfc would be without that CONSTANT background factor playing into everything. ugh
I hear that same thing from random members every day that I am on camera. Even as a model I can understand and even sympathize with your perspective on this. I have a theory: Imagine being a model on MFC with around 50 people in your room. You've been on camera for the better part of 30 minutes or more doing your best to tease and please; yet the people in your room are either quiet or pre-occupied with questions/conversation with one another. You decide to answer PM's which are rife with compliments and requests to show more...this is how it pans out.
Requester: "Let's see that ass baby."
Model: "Tip for requests, please."
Requester: "Awww please? Where u from sexy??"
And much more. You're then inclined to tell the room, sweetly, that requests should come with a tip. If that doesn't work, then it's the "Please rate and admire me" request to the room. You're on a bit longer but still, no one is interacting with you, no one is tipping and you know for darn sure no one has rated and admired you. This is discouraging. It does NOT make you feel appreciated. So, you decide to log off and return to log in later that day, so you can shrug it all off and not let it affect the room. When you get back on camera, all you are met with is this:
"You only care about tips don't you?!"
"What's wrong bb y u mad?"
"I appreciated seeing you! Let's see those lovely breasts when you get back online."
In a nutshell...
Our camscore is the perfect mindfuck for MFC to use against our livelihood (for those of us affected by it). The better it is, the better chance we have at being able to gain new regulars, bring back some previous regulars and is something that MFC pretty much allows to determine our ranking on the site as opposed to most premium members occupying a room, etc. I think it's safe to say that most of us really don't give a shit about it anymore and that we really are trying to concentrate on just having fun with the members.
Personally, MFC should use the hojillion amounts of money they make from tokens to pay one of the MANY IT Professionals/Code Monkey premium members to implement a five-star ranking system that is visible on the home page for members, or in their member account. This would allow them to access it immediately and make it much more convenient for them. Or, there could be a list of models they had watched that day, which would include the models' image with option to rate and admire her AND the performance, send a tip, send MFC mail and refer models to other premium members. These functions would be optional to use in premium accounts.