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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

Can I just ask something of those who hate the new layout, anyone can reply:

What exactly is the issue with the thumbnail photos other than slowing down some of your computers? I have high speed so mine is unaffected. When someone said, "now you cannot see the profiles", you never did see the profiles. You saw only names and you still do if someone has no photo, right?

To those who say there are less on a page, less what? Matches? Perhaps I do not use the site as you all do, I don't put parameters in for matches, I just log on and find emails and go to the forums and voila. I just scroll through profiles, which you can still do.

Am I missing some usage of the site that would help me enjoy my stay more?

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ORIGINAL: sexypet

Well that was out of context.  i was replying to the never ending littany of "if it's free, you are not entitled to voice an opinion" way of thinking.  Clearly if you read the WHOLE thread--plus the others like it, i am not the only one who feels this way.

i do wish there were a different place to voice an opinion to management.  i really don't care to be attacked endlessly for voicing an agreement with an opinion stated in a post started by someone else, and then agreed to by a majority of other posters.  Apparently only some of us are allowed to speak freely on these message boards and apparently the number of postings is in direct proportion to how much merit said opinion has.  heh.

 

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ORIGINAL: sexypet

i am so sick of the argument that because we have not paid anything, we shouldn't have a say.
How about you stop making that same dumb statement over and over?  They have money now with the advertisers, so that argument does not apply anymore, especially since they are spending time, money and resources on all this reformatting, but the same old problems still exist.

We are the users, we are the customers.  Period.  Paying or not.  The end user is the customer.

The new format on the front page sucks. Just when they finally had it looking decent, they fuck it up again.

And i would like my username to appear on a who's viewed me page, either with or without my pic. i picked this name for a reason and i lose the effect of this reason when Collarme eliminates my user name.  i am more than just a face, thank you.

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ORIGINAL: Griswold

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ORIGINAL: sexypet

i am so sick of the argument that because we have not paid anything, we shouldn't have a say.
How about you stop making that same dumb statement over and over?  They have money now with the advertisers, so that argument does not apply anymore, especially since they are spending time, money and resources on all this reformatting, but the same old problems still exist.

We are the users, we are the customers.  Period.  Paying or not.  The end user is the customer.

The new format on the front page sucks. Just when they finally had it looking decent, they fuck it up again.

And i would like my username to appear on a who's viewed me page, either with or without my pic. i picked this name for a reason and i lose the effect of this reason when Collarme eliminates my user name.  i am more than just a face, thank you.

Well!!!!

You certainly told THEM!!!!

By GAWWWWD CollarMe.com....you better get off your fat gawdammed asses and start shaking things up around here....or we're all going to take our mone....wait....our....well....you just wait....we'll take something away....

(How DARE they treat us like this!!!!)

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

I notice they increased the displayed result set... BETTER. It *might* be the compromise between the performance limits of the infrastructure, and the best format for displaying data... ( FWIW, I like larger sets... 50 at a minimum... But well understand how you can't make these Windows boxes work too hard... )

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

You know, I am sick of you complaining dorks. I was the ONLY person who EVEN tried to RATIONALLY EXPLAIN the set up of the site, and how it is NOT A PROFITABLE ADVERTISING MODEL.

MOD 11 confirmed what I took my precious time to write. And guess what? All the negative posters (sexypet??) who say no one listens to them rant and rave, not ONE of them acknowledged the practicality of what I contributed. Apparently no one posting here who is complaining has one iota of knowledge of what it takes to design a pay per click advertising model.

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ORIGINAL: PurelyAcademic

The site was free even before the changes, and I don't see what the real benefit of having all the thumbnails is.  It's a lot different from the advertising, which actually helps keep this site afloat.  This is just a cosmetic change, and a lot of people don't like it.  It's not as if users couldn't see other users' photos before the change.  All they had to do was click on that users' profile, or use the "browse photos" option.

I think that just because some (or, it seems, many) people are expressing a preference for the old layout doesn't mean that they are not appreciative of all the other positive attributes about Collarme.  I don't see why it has to be such a black-and-white issue for some people.  By the way, count me in among those people who do not like the new look on the front page.  It would be much better if either a) more than 8 profiles at a time would appear (or, there was a setting, as there is on some other sites, to choose how many profiles you will see per page), or b) there was an option to toggle the thumbnails on or off.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

You know, I am sick of you complaining dorks. I was the ONLY person who EVEN tried to RATIONALLY EXPLAIN the set up of the site, and how it is NOT A PROFITABLE ADVERTISING MODEL.

MOD 11 confirmed what I took my precious time to write. And guess what? All the negative posters (sexypet??) who say no one listens to them rant and rave, not ONE of them acknowledged the practicality of what I contributed. Apparently no one posting here who is complaining has one iota of knowledge of what it takes to design a pay per click advertising model.

Why do you presuppose monetizing the traffic is the primary goal?

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

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ORIGINAL: sexypet

Well it must be a wonderful place to live, that place where mediocrity and substandard conditions are considered preferred because they are "free".  It just isn't a valid argument.  A simple search of previous forum posts will prove i have always desired a pay site where one might have input.  Whether or not i paypaled a donation, didn't achieve the desired effect because it still did not ever provide me the opportunity to be heard.

The powers that be would benefit from a bit of training in Total Quality Management, which has been clearly lacking for some time.  That is, the following four process steps, namely:

1. Kaizen – Focuses on "Continuous Process Improvement", to make processes visible, repeatable and measurable.
   
2. Atarimae Hinshitsu – The idea that "things will work as they are supposed to" (for example, a pen will write).
   
3. Kansei – Examining the way the user applies the product leads to improvement in the product itself.
   
4. Miryokuteki Hinshitsu – The idea that "things should have an aesthetic quality" (for example, a pen will write in a way that is pleasing to the writer).

They are missing the boat on all 4 points, including valuing the opinion of its users, considering it is us users who click on their valuable advertisers links.

A smarter approach would be to poll its users as to desired site changes instead of randomly force feeding BETA testing down our throats when clearly we are here for something other than being their lab rats.

I do have to say, that you have some valid points there, sexypet. However, I will tell you this. My field is advertising and marketing, so I do know a bit about target marketing. You are making some statements about a purely business decision.

The advertisers on this site are here for what we call CPC or Cost Per Click. It is the latest online advertising model. It used to be cost per thousand, but google changed the business model. Now who advertises here? All sex/kink related sites, right? Well, they really do not care very much about the demographics or psychographics of this site, as much as say, a consumer package goods, or consumer healthcare advertiser would.

All the collarme advertisers care about is volume, sheer numbers of click throughs to their sites. That is what they pay for. So if you and I and the many other people here never click through to those ads, the site is not getting paid. So we are back to the essential model of a free site that is almost self supporting with limited revenue streams from these click through ads.

If the day comes that more mainstream or legitimate advertisers come aboard, then in order to pay for larger ads, they will need audience numbers, traffic figures, share of voice, page views, unique hits, etc. Then collarme could ask for more money upfront before a flight runs. Then collarme would be able to provide proof of audience and then they could charge us for using the site. That way, they would have legitimate quantitative data to provide to advertisers because they would require it under that model. Now they don't.

This may not help your frustration with not being heard here, but the grim reality is that given this business model, I am sure whomever runs this site cares only to a small degree about what we like or dislike about the site, contrary to what you think they might care relevant to advertisers.

And again, you have the freedom of choice to utilize the site or not as you do to complain.

I tried to provided a rationale here and no one cares, waaaaaaaaaaa.

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

This may not help your frustration with not being heard here, but the grim reality is that given this business model, I am sure whomever runs this site cares only to a small degree about what we like or dislike about the site, contrary to what you think they might care relevant to advertisers.

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Maybe the "grim reality" is that they want to provide the world's only meaningful free BDSM website, and they bring in advertisers only in order to make that a possibility.  Ever thought of that business model?

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ORIGINAL: sexyred1

This may not help your frustration with not being heard here, but the grim reality is that given this business model, I am sure whomever runs this site cares only to a small degree about what we like or dislike about the site, contrary to what you think they might care relevant to advertisers.