RedZ28 CoOwner Rate Spankers's blog: "Cherry Tap"

To those of you who are legends, there is no way you can fan everyone back who has fanned you, so this doesn't apply to you. So this is for everyone else. How annoying is it that your Fan and Fan Of lists don't match up? A few month's ago, Bella came up with the idea that users could have icons indicating who did what for you, so you can return the favor if you so inclined. I thought it was great idea then and still one now.

I wonder how many Cherry points they would give you, if you bought some shares in Social Concepts. Instant Cherry Godfather perhaps? Or at the very least throw in a cool hat and t-shirt.

In recent days, I have been growing more and more dissatisfied with the way we have all been treated. At one point I would have gladly forked over the money for a ViC and even a Happy Hour, but not any more. In the past, I used to contact all my friends and tell them what a great place this is to hang out. Quite a few of them have left, because a few creepy perverts continued to harass them. Scaling back on how much time I waste on here, because for me, the thrill is gone. The rules on rating and commenting have gotten way out of hand. Those of us that attempt to play by the rules are punished, while the one's that continue to circumvent them in one way or the other get away with it. I miss the good old days when there were no limits to commenting and rating. There was no such thing as commenting and rating too fast. Where you couldn't get deleted because the crappy server cannot keep up with the speed of your computer or your internet connection. Don't you?

Coming over from that other place whose name shall not be mentioned so long ago, the LC, now the CT used to be a far superior alternative to that other place. People were spreading the word left and right about how great this place is and it was expanding faster and faster every day, and probably still is. While that place most people left was constantly buggy, the CT ran like a swiss watch, and after all that Happy Hour, ViC and Blast money kept rolling in, it seemed to get even better, at first. Then things started to go downhill. People who you thought were close friends turned out not to be who they were. Someone else's pictures were used and a fake profile was created. Suddenly they implemented new rules to ostensibly prevent people who were using scripts to cheat. And suddenly we were rating too fast, commenting too fast, flooding the server in one way or the other. Apparently whatever is preventing the cheating from occuring, is also penalizing those of us with newer computers and fast internet connections. Tonight is probably one of my worst nights on here. I was rating as usual during Happy Hour and the rates were not even registering, so I hit reload and try again and lo and behold, I am rating too fast, which is hard to believe considering I was on a buggy wireless connection. And what is up with all the down raters. It's not like I'm holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to rate me. If they don't like what they're looking at, leave, you weren't invited anyways.

So in trying to respect the new unwritten rules sent down from above that the powers that be, I have noticed that no matter how hard you try, errors will still rear their ugly head. During Happy Hour, if you are rating photos and stash at a rate unacceptable to the CT server you will still get a you are rating too fast, please try again. And before anyone jumps down my throat to tell me wait for the entire photo or page to load, I do that, count to five then rate. Then they still want to tell me I'm rating too fast? Attempting to comment photos is even worst. You wait for the entire page to load, count five seconds, then submit your comment, but sometimes out of the blue you get the infamous, error session timed out or the even more serious error comment dropped, stop flooding our server. Now I have slowed my ratings and comments to a crawl on here and it still not enough to avoid getting a random error. Maybe the site is just growing too fast for it's own good.

Thanks to the new Happy Hour, earning points is a whole easier. Before it would take me roughly a few months to level up. Now, I am on the verge of leveling up for the second time in just about a week. I've also found out a few things about limits. You can max out the following: Photo Ratings Photo Comments Profile Ratings Blog Ratings Stash Ratings And how would I know all this? I've done it all. Just thought I would share. Until the next time.