An Xhamster Conspiracy?
I made a rather unpleasant discovery here a couple of days ago, which may all be down to one particularly negative Xhamster member or actually comprises proof of an honest-to-goodness conspiracy.
Someone, either with the assistance of friends or via the use of additional fake profiles, has been deliberately downvoting a number of my galleries. I thought at first I'd simply misjudged the tastes of other members on the site, but closer examination quite clearly proves there has been a concerted effort to negatively affect the ratings of huge swathes of my photographic content, especially the galleries 'Pornstars' and 'Bound To Please'. Moreover, this campaign - and make no mistake, it was a focused assault - has taken place within a two-week period no more than one month ago.
I've yet to draw any conclusions regarding the identity of the culprit or culprits concerned, but I do appear to have drawn some attention to this page through my recent campaign for everyone here to show at least some rudimentary civility towards fellow members, especially women, and it is likely a degree of antagonism has been bundled in as part of the reaction to that stance.
Regardless, I find this action to be extraordinarily petty, vindictive and pointless. I just thought it worth placing the entire affair on the record and in plain view.
Someone, either with the assistance of friends or via the use of additional fake profiles, has been deliberately downvoting a number of my galleries. I thought at first I'd simply misjudged the tastes of other members on the site, but closer examination quite clearly proves there has been a concerted effort to negatively affect the ratings of huge swathes of my photographic content, especially the galleries 'Pornstars' and 'Bound To Please'. Moreover, this campaign - and make no mistake, it was a focused assault - has taken place within a two-week period no more than one month ago.
I've yet to draw any conclusions regarding the identity of the culprit or culprits concerned, but I do appear to have drawn some attention to this page through my recent campaign for everyone here to show at least some rudimentary civility towards fellow members, especially women, and it is likely a degree of antagonism has been bundled in as part of the reaction to that stance.
Regardless, I find this action to be extraordinarily petty, vindictive and pointless. I just thought it worth placing the entire affair on the record and in plain view.
10 years ago
The Children have found an a way to went.
I try to remember to vote LIKE on any post that I watch, unless it's really really lame or egregiously offensive in some way (or if I want it and similar posts to go away from my Recommended page!) Your posts are uniformly excellent. Thanks for posting them, keep up the good work, and try not to let yourself be dragged down by idiots...
-- Steve
http://xhamster.com/photos/gallery/2256465/bound_to_please.html
Thinking a lot about how to stop this, the only solution I can imagine is to change the rating system in the style of Flickr. You can give no negative ratings but only a star as a favorite. I think this is the best form of rating, I'm not interested in people who dislike me - farewell! -but want to see those who like me and my content and it's encouraging all posters
By the way I'm sad and angry that they attack so many good and friendly people like you.
my same thoughts..
especially for content producers like myself..
Yes, absolutely - there is a minority of folk who like to operate a strength-in-numbers gang mentality on here. And the vast majority of their tactics are incredibly petty.
Like yourself, I don't care much for the ratings - if there can be a concerted effort to negatively affect ratings, you can be sure they can also be positively affected for the chosen few they get along well with.
Xhamster - mostly porn, but a fair amount of bullshit can come with it too.
But Hamster should delete the dislike Button or at least should show who pressed it. These people are only brave because they can hide here, I think.