The camscore and room popularity count, like almost all crowd source rating systems on the internet; from Amazon ratings, to Metacritic, to Yelp, suffer from a halo effect. In particular when people are asked to rate something if others have all ready rated in highly, this biases their rating upwards. MFC makes the problem worse by driving traffic to the highest rated/most popular rooms. Imagine how different shopping on Amazon would be if you saw 250 thumbnails of the highest rated products on the homepage.
Generally speaking guys go on MFC to see: hot girls, interesting shows, and engage in intercourse
(aka chat). Different guys place different weighting on these activities. For most seeing pretty girls do a show is very high priority, others highly value the social interaction.
Lots of studies have shown that guys consistently on agree which girls are most attractive. Both guys and girls 1-10 rating on sites like IamIhotornot (or Facebook early on) show little variation. Although things like clothes and make-up can enhance appearance and bad cams, lighting etc can detract from appearance,generally speaking good looking girls have better cam score. I can honestly say that I have yet to see a camgirl with camscore over 10,000 who was not good looking, and most are drop dead gorgeous.
There is a greater variation among guys on what makes an interesting show. Most guys are happy just to see a girl dancing naked, or masturbating. Plenty of guys get off on seeing more exotic sexual activities: anal play, squirting, huge toys, girl girl shows etc. But often the most popular rooms are ones where there is an unusual activity, say Olivia Naked zany hobo antics, Aspen Raes swinging into a dildo, or Jolene's artistic projector shows are all very popular. If I see I 1,000 guys in a room most of the time I'll enjoy the show (unless it just ended), the one thing I can say is I have yet to enter a room with 1,000+ guy and find a fully clothed girl texting her friends and ignoring the room, in contrast lots of room with 6 or 7 viewers have board/boring cam girls.
The final reason guys visit MFC is an chance to chat with the girls. A couple of things, first most guys don't chat with girls on MFC. Now that is mostly cause you mute basics (Thank God :lol: ) but even among premium only a minority are chatting at all. The other thing the keep in mind is that guys on ACF, aren't at all representative of the guys on MFC. If you think about instead of watching naked girls play with themselves, we are reading blocks of text. It is hell of lot quicker for me to type "h bb pussy" than this post, and there is a slim chance I'll see a pussy. :-D. In short, conversations to members on this forum are way more important than it is to the average MFC member, which is why you see several responses along the line I don't visit popular rooms. Right now the #1 room on MFC has more viewers than rooms ~600-1115 combined, so clearly most guys do visit popular rooms.
So I am predisposed to assume that a girl with a high camscore is good looking and likely to get naked fairly quickly (i.e hit her countdown). I also assume a popular room will have decent number of tippers and if it is for a girl with high camscore some very large tippers. I do know that tips to girls with lower cam score will generally be appreciated more and conversely that I need tip more to get the attention of girls with higher camscore. I figure this is how the game is played, and I can't change the rules, unless I make some really cool webcam tutorials :lol:
Now I happen to by that type that will tip pretty much any ACF girl who's room I spend a decent amount of time in, and even will put out the token 10 or 20 tip gesture for the very top models , but I suspect like most guys, I save most of my tokens for my favorite models. So if I am simply watching a show and not interacting with the model, than yes the presence of lots of tipper or more commonly the one or two whales will make me less inclined to make more than a single tip.
I think it is important to understand that most guys can not even afford to make a single tip for every show they watch. Imagine a guy who spends $75 to buy 900 tokens every other month. Let say he has two favorite model with lower cam score and tips them 200 tokens a month each, and participate in their chats. This leaves him only 100 tokens to spend on other models. If averages a hour or so a day on MFC this leaves him only ten 10 tokens tips to spread out over 60 days. In this situations it is only logical for the guy notto bother to tip a top models who routinly getting 500 or 1,000 token tip and see yellow walls etc. To save those tips for camgirls who are struggling.