I'm sorry but I don't see anything "fair" about your proposal. It would it totally be abused, not only by high spending members bullying lower ranking models into doing stuff for them so they get their "vote" but you'd also get a tirade of members trying to use their vote as ways to make models do stuff for free. It would bring members even more away from the tipping aspect and more into the "this is just a fun free site where models aren't actually trying to earn" frame of mind.
It also wouldn't reward models who work really hard or encourage members to spend that bit more on certain months. And because of the camscore system you would still get large amounts of members tipping certain models. At least now a model with lower room numbers but good regulars can work her arse off for 30 days and make the top 100. In this situation she'd never stand a chance.
Hello Isabella,
I'm glad that you responded and opened discussion.
First up, I want to make it clear that my idea was not one to replace the monthly Miss MFC contest, but as one to stand alone as a Full year Miss MFC. I think that the monthly Miss MFC contest works very well as a motivator, and agree that a model who has lower room numbers can indeed work very hard and make a good showing in such contests. I've seen many models become motivated and over several months learn new skills and slowly have better and better showings. So I'm cool with the monthly contest. It's not perfect but it IS a good motivator, and has opportunities for the dedicated.
The big problem that I see with a yearly competition is how you decide it. If it is based. like the monthly, on total tokens, then it's going to be a contest that is realistically only open to the elite Thirty (10?) monthly players or so to win. The big monthly winners will be the ones who all slug it out for Yearly winner, and it will be pretty clear to most lower score, and room member number girls that they have no hope at it, and thus it won't be a very good motivator. Also, though I'm not convinced that the monthly competition sucks all the tokens out of the system with a bias to the top end, I am concerned enough to believe that adding another token stacking contest could start to have negative effects on a site wide basis with truly unknown effects on the community.
I'm very interested in hearing more ideas on why a pure token stacking metric would be of benefit for a Yearly contest. I'm not a model, so I can't hope to fully understand the mindset and views that a model would have on this sort of contest. Why they might want to work for it and so forth.
I will concede that if the base idea behind a yearly contest is to give the elite a new goal to strive for, then token stacking will work for that end. It would be very much "You are the best of the crop, here is a new ring to reach for" motivator. So if that is the desired path then yes it would work.
But I felt that perhaps a yearly contest might be a tool for motivating a much larger percent of the model base then just the elite levels of MFC. I think there is more to the concept of 'Best model' then just ability to pull in tokens. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to take those into consideration somehow also?
Making the competition based on something other then tokens seems to be the best path to do that to me. I like the idea of a weighted voting currency that is members hands because it removes the ability of a handful of Whales to decide the result. It also evens the playing field of camscore advantage a bit, as a model would have a full year to make an impression on a voting member, and thus have lots of time to be 'discovered' as their ranking might not put them in the highly important top quarter of the default home page.
I don't see how members would be able to bully any model. First up a model would need to WANT to be competing for the voting points for it to even matter. And they also get to decide exactly what they might be willing to offer in exchange for said points. Because the points are weighted, even a whales vote is not so off scale as to be worth that incredibly more then an average premiums, so a whale wouldn't have some huge club to swing to 'get stuff'. Because points are 'slippery', and could be easily reassigned by a user, their very nature as a currency makes them difficult to 'sell' for goods or services.
But I think that is enough for now. As we have not even come to a common basis on exactly what purpose, and for who a Yearly contest would be designed towards.
Looking forward to fun discussion if it pleases anyone.
Myriads