His point was that some members might believe MFC is a 'dating site', due to girls doing date raffles. Dating sites are for serious relationships, aren't they?AmberCutie said:Missed my (and the general) point entirely. I simply re-stated that for those guys who think they can "grab a date" from a cam site that girls doing "date raffles" can be confusing.LilyMarie said:I do not have a preconceived dislike for any of his posts. I have a dislike for posts after I read them and they turn out to be insulting or stupid.AmberCutie said:Before we jump on the guy too badly, because it's obvious many of you have a preconceived dislike for any of his posts...LilyMarie said:Yeah, those stupid models, always raffling off "let's meet once, chat and have dinner!"-get-togethers. It's no wonder guys start believing the models want a romantic relationship with them! The poor camsite members are just being toyed with by all the evil models who offer to meet them. :naughty:PunkInDrublic said:All those date raffles models keep doing probably aren't helping deter guys from thinking it's a dating site.
I kinda agree with him. Not that it should lead someone to the point that vlad or whomever the schmuck was earlier in this thread should think stalking a girl is a good idea, but that in general it does add to the confusion for those guys who think they can grab a date from a cam site.
There's no reason for a guy to believe that something serious can come out of a date-raffle-date. Models make it so clear even on the graphics for the raffles (and before the date surely during e-mail/twitter/MFC mail contact with the guy who wins) that it's purely platonic and there's no sex or anything like that involved. It's not like they don't make themselves clear, or gives members hope. You'd have to have a really distorted perception of reality if you believe a 'date' with a camgirl can be compared to a date at the start of a potential relationship.
I don't think either I or punk stated that it led people to think serious relationships were had from date raffles.
If I was a casual/new visitor to cam sites and I visit say, 10 cam rooms/profiles, and 8 out of those 10 mentioned "date raffle" as I briefly skimmed over it, my original assessment may be that "oh hey, some of these girls DO meet their viewers, sweet I have a shot to see her in person!"
It isn't an unreasonable statement to make that girls doing date raffles on MFC can confuse some people. That can't be argued.
- Yes, it can confuse some people. But only until they actually talk to a model about her date raffle and quickly find out that it's not a real date with a possible future at all.
No need for the snappiness.PunkInDrublic said:What was insulting or stupid about what I said? Please enlighten me o wise one
It's insulting because you're saying that it's [partly?] the fault of the models who do date raffles (= meet-up raffles) that some members are totally delusional.
I've never seen anything like that in 2 years. Might be a coincident.Some do but some make it quite clear that sex will take place or that anything is possible. I guess these models don't count.
:lol: It's really not that difficult if you just accept what 'date' means in this case. It's means having dinner or something with the model once. It's more like a meet-up raffle, like I said. I suppose models call it a date because it's usually dinner at a nice restaurant, so it'll look like a date.Yeah I already kinda said this.
Not a dating site unless you pay me and then yes you can take me out for a date but only because you're paying me I'd never go on a date with a member and this isn't a dating site but hundreds of models have date raffles but don't come here looking for dates but if you want to give me tokens for my date raffle to take me out on a date yes please do but this isn't a dating site. How far from reality does one have to get to where that makes sense to them?
When a guy sees a model who's not willing to give people her real name or city, but then he assumes that she'll be ready to go on an actual, 'traditional' date with any random person who wins her contest - that's just crazy. It's not like lots of members are in danger of being fooled like that, because the majority of them are probably sane and have some social competence.
Man, I didn't know that everyone assumes that it's so hard for the average member to understand what 'date raffle' means.