This one was new to me, at least.
Member - grey of course - came into my favorite model's CB room last night, and told her to PM him so he could tell her the secret to success on CB. She talked him into just speaking in main chat, where he offered the following sales pitch: "So, you know how the models on the front page have, like, 500 users in their room? Well, you need to have that many users to get to the front page, in order to get enough people to come to you to make the kind of tips that you want."
Now, this is clearly not the case; she and I have paid close attention to her position in the CB "sort order" over several sessions. Position seems to be very surprisingly volatile, compared to MFC's CamScore, for example. The CB position is heavily impacted by things like a new unique tipper, even one who tipped just 1 token; a single user signing up for her Fan Club; number of new Follows; a surprisingly short period of tipping silence; a user giving a thumbs-up for the 24-hour period; etc. It provides solid resistance to a single high-tipper trying to push a model forward. I'd actually have guessed, from what I've been observing, that "users in the room" has a nil weighting in the CB sort-order-algorithm.
He continued on with his pitch, "Well, I happen to have 500 anonymous accounts with unique IP addresses. I have a program, which helped get meaningless_namedrop to the front page, before she blocked me because she had gotten what she wanted. I have some revisions to this program, and I need a place to test it."
This is where his pitch has gone seriously off the rails for me, personally.
You have 500 unique IP addresses? Oh, you have a small bot-net, you know, the kind of thing which I actively fight against, professionally, on a daily basis.
You think users-in-room alone is going to catapult somebody to the front page? You know less about this rating algorithm than we've learned in, you know, a mere week or two of observations.
The model you helped blocked you? Yes, I'm sure she had no reason to; models block nice guys, you know, for no reason at all, like, all the time.
You want to test your program? You don't need my friend's permission to test it on her room, you know; CB doesn't give her the tools she'd need to stop you if you tried.
And all of this is from the goodness of your heart? I'm sure you will not ask anything of my friend down the line.
So, if it were up to me, I would simply bin this member, his sales pitch, and his bot-net. But, my friend is feeling a little frustration with her CB success, or lack thereof, and she seems to be a bit tempted by the idea of there being a secret short-cut to success.
Are there any downsides that I've missed, which I ought to be offering as counter-argument to this snake-oil salesman? I'm sure there's an element or two to this that I'm not catching...
Member - grey of course - came into my favorite model's CB room last night, and told her to PM him so he could tell her the secret to success on CB. She talked him into just speaking in main chat, where he offered the following sales pitch: "So, you know how the models on the front page have, like, 500 users in their room? Well, you need to have that many users to get to the front page, in order to get enough people to come to you to make the kind of tips that you want."
Now, this is clearly not the case; she and I have paid close attention to her position in the CB "sort order" over several sessions. Position seems to be very surprisingly volatile, compared to MFC's CamScore, for example. The CB position is heavily impacted by things like a new unique tipper, even one who tipped just 1 token; a single user signing up for her Fan Club; number of new Follows; a surprisingly short period of tipping silence; a user giving a thumbs-up for the 24-hour period; etc. It provides solid resistance to a single high-tipper trying to push a model forward. I'd actually have guessed, from what I've been observing, that "users in the room" has a nil weighting in the CB sort-order-algorithm.
He continued on with his pitch, "Well, I happen to have 500 anonymous accounts with unique IP addresses. I have a program, which helped get meaningless_namedrop to the front page, before she blocked me because she had gotten what she wanted. I have some revisions to this program, and I need a place to test it."
This is where his pitch has gone seriously off the rails for me, personally.
You have 500 unique IP addresses? Oh, you have a small bot-net, you know, the kind of thing which I actively fight against, professionally, on a daily basis.
You think users-in-room alone is going to catapult somebody to the front page? You know less about this rating algorithm than we've learned in, you know, a mere week or two of observations.
The model you helped blocked you? Yes, I'm sure she had no reason to; models block nice guys, you know, for no reason at all, like, all the time.
You want to test your program? You don't need my friend's permission to test it on her room, you know; CB doesn't give her the tools she'd need to stop you if you tried.
And all of this is from the goodness of your heart? I'm sure you will not ask anything of my friend down the line.
So, if it were up to me, I would simply bin this member, his sales pitch, and his bot-net. But, my friend is feeling a little frustration with her CB success, or lack thereof, and she seems to be a bit tempted by the idea of there being a secret short-cut to success.
Are there any downsides that I've missed, which I ought to be offering as counter-argument to this snake-oil salesman? I'm sure there's an element or two to this that I'm not catching...
