New Tagging Of Pics feature !!!

I'm not particularily bothered about the whole thing, but it seems to me the admins should have anticipated such innovation, giving an announcement of some sort... or even polling for the opinion of the members.
as it is, the plan, however good the intentions, seems to have backfired (also severely hampering my chances to perve )
may I suggest that you give the members the chance to chose (a simple flag-unflag system should do) whether to let people rate their pics or not?

Does that mean just youself sees it?


Oh I wasn't aware of that


When u upload new pictures, u have the option of having it public on your profile, but not in the public gallery where it can be rated?


I do understand that the admin team are trying to help us all out from the feedback from members. They have put the option of multi-cam which I do like I'm willing to see how it goes

Miss Cream xxx

This is at the heart of the issue really. Talk to us tell us what to expect and why? As I've said many many times before, information is key. Tell people what's going on and not only does it give people warning but it also allows people to opt out if they so wish, and prevents any potential backlash.

Nobody likes to be dictated to.

… and by default making the profiles a less useful tool for gauging possible meets.

I cant help with any rating options as there are not any!

We need 500,000 pictures tagged to use in the new search feature. It takes about 20 seconds to do each one so in terms of time that would take someone 79 working weeks to do assuming they never stopped to do anything else .

You could say at the moment if you wanted to spend just 2 seconds looking at each picture in the gallery to see if you liked it that currently would take you two monts assuming you were on here doing it 35 hours a week.

So it was absolutely no surprise that we had thousands of people asking for this when we ran the recent surveys.

I'm sorry to sound like an embittered old traditionalist, but I fail to see how such an "improvement" aids the, supposedly, primary focus of the site, which is purported to be swinging.

While photographs are an aid in deciding whom people want to play with, I would also assume that a great many swingers often read a profile or interact with folk in another way too, rather than just look for nice cocks / boobs and then rattle off a PM in the hope of a shag later that week. I would venture that many swingers methods of selecting their potential partners are a little more selective. I would also hazard that while many people may be great photographers, that may not make them necessarily great swingers, and vice versa.

Being cynical, you could just say that it is an easy way to bring in the single frustrated male / female membership masturbation money, by providing them with easy links to true amateur photographs of the finest wanking material that they require.

If that is the case, do we get a model fee?

I understand the system is not a ratings system perse, but given the reaction by most here to the wording used, it seems inevitable that this is how it will be interpreted by many and then used as such by a great many people on here, even in good faith. You put the word "rating" in any context next to photographs and the vast majority of people will ignore the words "quality".

I also feel the fact that to roll out such an improvement without warning, when it concerns the fragile sensibilities of members on a site such as this, was ill-informed. I understand that you don't have time to listen to every Tom, Dick or Harriet's thoughts on the issue, but it would have been a common courtesy at the very least to let people know it was coming, rather than roll it out and then firefight the reaction afterwards.

I'm all for improving the site for swingers. I fail to see how this makes swinging any easier. It makes life for those seeking a quick wank, whilst looking at things that turn them on, immeasurably easier. I'd never choose to swing with someone simply because of the quality of their pics or how easy they are to find, I don't think anyone else would either.

I'm afraid to me, it smacks of pandering to the larger market. In effect using the pictures of people on here as a free porn market for subscribing masturbatory folk. That's fair enough, but at least tell us that is what our pics will be used for.

Yours

Mrs Trellis (North Wales)

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I'm happy to volunteer some of my time to help if it stops this kinda thing!

And if you want to employ me full time then my inbox is <<<< way! It'll cost you though... wads!!

More cams and the ability to remove whispers are features that would be considered a no-brainer as far as most are concerned.

You made the point that a lot of people think they are David Bailey, and that would appear to mean that those that takes the pics think they are good pics.

Now, without wishing to be overstepping the mark here, I have seen pics of people I have seen at munches etc, and the pics sometimes have not done the person justice, because they have been taken with webcams, in poor light, hastily etc, but what if someone was to take a look at a pic, and decided to tick the box that says 'BBW', and yet it was nothing more than an unflattering photo, or that the person detests labels, and would never in a million years consider themselves a BBW, surely someone could cause offence with the tagging of a photo?

Please consider the members before asking them not to pass judgement on something you may now be realising is something they are not totally in support of.

Totally agree.