Getting an offline tip makes me feel super special and thought of. It means a lot that someone can send a token of appreciation without me having to be on camera showing them something for it. It's the only time you can be 150% sure that the person tipped you for YOU, and not to get attention or recognition in front of the crowd of people in your public chat room.
ALSO, when trying to hold a spot in the top 20, getting offline tips to stay where you are is essential. Especially in the first week and a half of the month, when the list is so volatile. If you go 14 hours with no tips, and the girls behind you on the list are online, it's inevitable that you will be passed, then have to work that much harder to return to that spot when you get back online. It's frustrating and disheartening, thus, girls who are going for rank ask for offline tips, as well as hope for a successful session on cam, daily.
That being said... I wouldn't want someone "saving tips for offline" if they are with me in my chat room. If I'm on, and you are planning to tip me, I would love to thank you
in person, so to speak. Sitting on camera for an hour and getting no tips, then getting offline tips afterwards doesn't do anything positive for a camscore, either. I avoid doing any kind of discount for things if they are tipped offline (i.e. making pic sets cheaper if tipped offline, double raffle tickets if tipped offline, etc.) because if I'm online, I really need to keep the tokens flowing in to keep me motivated and keep the camscore from tanking. I don't want to give tippers a reason to "save" tokens for after I log off.
There are occasions where someone wants to tip and doesn't want it to count for a particular countdown... that's very sweet! Even though tipping offline certainly avoids them going to the public countdown, you could also just tip invisible and put a note on it for me to know it's "just for me and not the countdown".
So I think the question this thread is asking is "do you prefer online or offline tips." Hah, I guess I'm saying I prefer both.